Nissan to demo EV Cube at Kanagawa Electric Vehicle (EV) Festa 2009
Nissan will be showing off the second-generation version of its electric Cube this weekend at the Kanagawa EV Festa 2009. Nissan showed a concept called the Denki Cube at last year's New York Auto Show and then showed the EV-02 (right) later in the year. The festival this weekend will be the first time that Nissan offers public rides in the prototype EV. Nissan has committed to introducing an electric vehicle next year, but it has also said that the production version will not be based on the Cube. The current version of the prototype is propelled by an 80 kW electric motor and matching inverter. Nissan has a joint venture with NEC to produce lithium ion batteries. The flat prismatic cells are arranged into a pack that is mounted under the floor. If you happen to be in the vicinity of Yokohama Akarenga Park in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan it might be worth checking out the festival.
[Source: Nissan]
Nissan to participate in "Kanagawa Electric Vehicle (EV) Festa 2009"
- EV Prototype Displayed for the Test-ride Section -
TOKYO (March 12, 2009) - Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced it will showcase its electric vehicle (test vehicle) and offer it for a test-ride section for visitors at "Kanagawa Electric Vehicle (EV) Festa 2009", organized by Kanagawa EV Promotion Council, to be held on March 14 and 15 in Yokohama Akarenga Park.
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Nissan has committed to zero-emission vehicle leadership, and has announced plans to introduce an all-electric vehicle in fiscal year 2010 in North America and Japan and mass market globally in 2012. This vehicle was produced experimentally for the purpose of assessing various performances of EV. It is the first time for Nissan to give a test-ride (passenger ride) of EV to the public.
This vehicle features a front-wheel drive layout and uses a newly developed 80kW motor and inverter. The advanced laminated compact lithium-ion batteries are installed under the floor, without sacrificing either cabin or cargo space. The production vehicle to be introduced in fiscal year 2010 will have a unique bodystyle and will not be based on any existing Nissan model.
"Kanagawa EV Promotion Council" (President: Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture) in which Nissan participates as a council member has been having consultation about EV promotional and educational activities, building battery charging infrastructure, and other topics. This event is held as part of its activities. Nissan will give an opportunity for the public to experience the latest EV technology by displaying a cut model of its lithium ion battery as well as by showcasing its prototype.
Kanagawa Electric Vehicle (EV) Festa 2009 Dates: March 14 (Sat.) - 15 (Sun.), 2009
Venue: Yokohama Akarenga Park
Organizer: Kanagawa EV Promotion Council
Admission Fee: Free
rganizer Website: http://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/press/0902/093/index.html
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
gorr 6:05PM (3/13/2009)
Why are they losing money doing experiences with batteries while keeping their hydrogen technologies on hold and that have been proven right since years and years. By betraying their paying consumers they just will kill themself and be sold death to their respecting goverments on the wish of big-oil that extract since years and years pollution from deep in the ground to expel it the higher possible into the biosphere while making tons of money and investing their profits in deforestration to even burn the remaining bit of biology. Big oil is anti-human and nissan, toyota, gm is their hands.
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Chris M 9:39PM (3/13/2009)
But big oil LOVES the Hydrogen technologies, because they have the cheapest source of hydrogen, and they intend to sell you their hydrogen from their stations, just as soon as they can persuade the government to pay for building their hydrogen stations and pay half-million dollar subsidies for each of those hydrogen cars! Shell, Conoco, Exxon Mobil, BP, they all have hydrogen plans, the've even opened a few hydrogen fueling stations.
What really scares big oil is battery electrics, because they don't own the electric companies and they can't compete with cheap electricity
gorr 12:06PM (3/15/2009)
I say that you don't want anyone having free fuel for eternity like someone buying a car powered by simple electrolisis of water and you still mix-up religion and beliefs with simple engineering and marketing in a free open business environnement. The water powered car exist and is not on the market because nobody whatsoever want a single second believe is free unlimited fuel for eternity and even if it's proven that a water powered car exist and run badly because of timing and carburation problems but the principle of extracting free energy by splitting water molecule in 2 and recombining it later on in a devise work because it's the water itself that give energy and goes back to water again, so the reaction can be repeated almost an infinite time till the engine blow-up after 2 000 000 miles or so. I know that in the past many many folks have die mentally in robot corpse powered by water-splitting battery that worked permantly and are here today in human corpse trying to figure out how to rebuild their brain that do not work at all because they negate simple truth like these films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrxfMz2eDME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVhXrvCCILw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ3juM6vHwg
Stew 12:07AM (3/14/2009)
Chris M, you hit the nail on the head. Me personally, I will not buy another vehicle that takes liquid fuel, period.
If a battery electric vehicle isn't for sale by the time I drive the wheels off my present car (sometime between 2010-2011) then I'm going to convert one myself.
I can produce my own electricity from wind or solar, I can't very easily refine my own gasoline or hydrogen. But then again, that's exactly why the oil companies don't want EVs on the road.
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