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Nissan to (finally) spend funds on battery technology and hybrids - starting with the following joint venture with NEC:
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Nissan-NEC to make lithium-ion batteries
Sunday May 18, 11:09 pm ET
By Yuri Kageyama, AP Business Writer
Nissan-NEC joint venture to invest US$115 million to mass produce lithium-ion batteries
TOKYO (AP) -- Nissan's joint venture with electronics maker NEC Corp. will invest 12 billion yen (US$115 million; euro74 million) to start mass-producing lithium-ion batteries -- a technology widely viewed as key for next-generation green cars.
Nissan Motor Co. Executive Vice President Carlos Tavares told reporters Monday the Japanese automaker wants to be a global leader in "zero-emission vehicles."
Lithium-ion batteries are now more common in laptops and other gadgets, although all the world's automakers are working on applying the batteries for their cars.
Nissan's joint venture called Automotive Energy Supply Corp. plans to make advanced lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, hybrids and fuel cells -- all important technology to reduce pollution as well as global warming gases.
"Nissan firmly believes the ultimate solution for sustainable mobility lies in zero-emission vehicles," Tavares said at a Tokyo hotel.
A plant for the batteries, set to be running by 2009, will have annual production capacity of 65,000, and starting capacity of 13,000, Nissan said. The investment will cover three years, it said.
Tokyo-based Nissan has been sometimes criticized as falling behind Japanese rivals such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. in ecological technology.
Toyota has a big hit with its gas-electric hybrid, Prius, which has already crossed the 1 million sales mark worldwide. Honda also has its own hybrid and fuel-cell models.
Nissan has said it will introduce an electric vehicle in the U.S. and Japan, as well as its own hybrid, in 2010.
By 2012, Nissan plans to mass-market electric vehicles to consumers globally. It is also planning to make available on a wide scale zero-emission vehicles in Israel and Denmark in 2011.
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Hot-swapping getting (it's best) test, in Tokyo cabs:
http://detnews.com/article/20100426/AUTO01/4260362/1148/rss25
Is this "leapfrog" technology? There just no prospect of getting the range out of batteries that we're comfortable with. Yet, if we make the commitment, there'll usher in a communal aspect to driving working against its strongest allure: freedom.
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...and don't forget PGE offering 6-cent overnight power--and esp. don't forget that carpool lane sticker 
I'm starting to give that Volt a second look.
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Nissan Leaf's demand very strong:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/ptech/04/24/nissan.electric/index.html?hpt=C2
| Quote: | Early demand for the Nissan Leaf electric vehicle is strong, with 6,635 people reserving cars in just three days -- a figure that represents more than 10 percent of the Leafs Nissan will build in its first year of production.
Nissan started taking reservations for the four-door, five-passenger EV on Tuesday afternoon, and almost instantly people were signing up to get one. The Nissan Leaf, which will cost $25,280 after the $7,500 federal EV tax credit, rolls into showrooms in December.
"We had 2,700 reservations in the first three hours," said Dave Mingle, Nissan's senior director for customer management and business strategy. "It exceeded what we expected, though we knew from what the hand-raisers were telling us this is an exceptionally passionate crowd." |
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As to be expected the secret of the technology itself depends on something outside the technology--in this case the least likely buyers of batteries, electric utilities. The buyin scale these large scale spenders can bring could tilt the auto driveline towards the consumer in a way unthinkable looking at autos alone. Indeed, battery logistics threaten to explode our entire utility "building for peak" dogma, "enabling" alternative wind and solar industries just the same. And it's not really new, so perhaps the time is nigh:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/business/11battery.html
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Nissan finally unveils its all-electric vehicle, the Leaf, to be released in the US, Europe, and Japan next year:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aLC7FCSbP09U
| Quote: | Nissan Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn said yesterday electric cars may account for at least 10 percent of global vehicle sales by 2020. Nissan has failed to match the popularity of Toyota Motor Corp.’s Prius hybrid and Honda Motor Co.’s Insight, and is betting demand for emission-free cars will offset the restrictions of limited range.
“Investors are jumping to Nissan after it actually unveiled the much-awaited car,” said Koichi Nishi, an equity strategist at Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. “Products that fulfill the promise of environmental-friendliness are encouraging.”
The company plans to sell its electric car, the Leaf, in the U.S., Japan and Europe next year. Nissan’s new electric car can travel 100 miles on a full charge and can seat as many as five people. The car’s lithium-ion battery pack can be fully recharged at a 200-volt outlet in eight hours, or in less than 30 minutes from a so-called fast-charge station, according to Nissan. In contrast, hybrids can refuel at conventional gasoline stations. |
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Hummer gives Prius a run for its money in "dust to dust" energy footprint.
http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/
The "catch"? Life expectancy.
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