lithium-ion electric car by Nissan
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Japanese automaker Nissan will market the lithium-ion powered electric car worldwide in 2012. Even Nissan perhaps doesn at the top of hybrid car, three Japanese automaker is ready to move ahead with plans to introduce an electric car in 2010 for testing with fleet customers in Japan and the United States.

According Nissan’s manager of advanced vehicle engineering,Masahiko Tabe at the Geneva Motor Show said “The first production vehicles will be for regional areas like California. We will later expand the EV all over the world.”
Nissan has start testing its lithium-ion batteries in the Cube, which will make it over to the stateside in its next-generation iteration.He refused to say whether the electric cars will actually be called the Cube or whether it will be based off the Cube at all.
“The technology will first appear in a small vehicle,” Tabe said. “The New York show will give you some hints.”
Next week Nissan will unveil its battery-powered concept car that it says will hint at the vehicle’s future styling and technical specs. The production model is expected to have a daily range of 100 miles with a top speed of 75mph. A full-charge will take about 8 hours.
“If you look at the number of kilometers people drive per day to commute, more than 90 percent of the people do less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) a day,” Tavares said. “There is a huge, huge potential there for EVs.”






