Nissan Electric Car
Nissan is going ahead to offer pure electric car in 2010 for customers in Japan and the United States. Putting pure electric cars on the road requires the necessary infrastructure “refuel” the cars. And they have chosen to work with Ecotality, a battery-charging technology company, to deploy an EV charging network in the Tucson metropolitan area.
At the moment for this is for fleet operators only. Ecotality offers "quick-charge" battery charging technology for fleet use. In an effort to break the
“chicken and egg” situation i.e. nobody wants an electric car if there is no convenient way to recharge them and no company would want to build a charging infrastructure is there is no car to use them. So automakers like Nissan and GM have to work hand in hand to roll them out (pun intended) at the same time.
Nissan did not say much what car would finally be the one chosen other than it will be a compact about the size of a Versa and with a range of about 100 miles, they have been testing with an electric powered Cube. The battery will be a lithium-ion type battery.
Carlos Ghosn said initial quantities would be small.
“We’re talking about hundreds of vehicles first,” he said. But he said that the company was determined to achieve “zero-emission-vehicle leadership.”
pic via NYTimes
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