Nissan Forklifts announces new lithium batteries that forecast EV
Nissan has announced a new range of forklifts that use lithium ion batteries provided by Nissan and NEC's joint venture AESC. These batteries were first seen powering the Mixim and the Pivo 2 concepts during the Frankfurt Motor Show. Does this move of the batteries to actual production vehicles mean that we'll get us a Nissan EV as expected? Nissan states that this is part of its Nissan GT 2012 strategy to produce an EV for the U. S. in 2010 and 2012 in the rest of the world. The new forklift models were introduced during Hannover's Logistics Fair and will be on sale in 2009, if development is ready. The first units for the European market will be probably built at Nissan's plant in Navarra, Spain.
[Source: Nissan]
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Lad 12:36AM (6/01/2008)
I believe that Renault and Nissan, not members of The AAM, will be the companies that lead us into everyday use of electric drive cars because they are active and serious about change. Toyota, Ford, and GM, in fact all the members of The AAM, are following the lobbyist script to drag their feet to maximize profits and to move slowly from ineffecient ICEs into electric drive cars. Tesla Motors has proven the concept of BEVs. It's now time for Renault and Nissan to prove they can mass produce BEVs and work out the necessary details to solve the infrastructure problems.
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