Renault-Nissan creates partnership for deploying EVs in China
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The latest city to join the long list of more than 30 cities and governments that have signed an agreement with Renault-Nissan is Guangzhou, a large city formerly known as Canton. Nissan's partner in China, Dongfeng, will work with the municipality to have electric cars available to customers and to create a charging network for these vehicles to use. The first cars are expected to be delivered as soon as 2011. Nothing was mentioned as to which electric model would be produced for the local market, although it's almost guaranteed to be one of the electric concepts shown at Frankfurt or the Nissan Leaf.
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the4thheat 8:42PM (11/26/2009)
Calling Guangzhou by the name of Canton was a goof-up where they called the city the name of the province it's in, since Canton was just a (bad) phoneticization of Guangdong. I think you can still get away with using the word Canton if you're referring to the province but certainly not popular anymore.
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EVsuperhero 9:42PM (11/26/2009)
I admire Nissan's courage going to the EV capital of the world to sell their EV. Seems like the Chinese already have enough EV's to choose from that are going to be less expensive for the same range or better.
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Tohe 6:15PM (11/27/2009)
You should admire Buick also, for selling their cars in an ever more competitive market. No market is monolithic and the Nissan LEAF is a refined proposition unlike anything else out there.
Mark_BC 12:31AM (11/27/2009)
It's interesting how all this relates to Copenhagen. Westerners are being pressured to transfer some wealth to the developing nations of India and China to help them with the technology to reduce carbon emissions, but they seem to be leading the way. I wonder, since we emitted most of our CO2 in the last 50 years when we didn't really have viable technological alternatives to improve our standard of living (well, we kind of did, but GHG emissions weren't really seriously considered). So the argument is that we are responsible for most of the carbon in the atmosphere so we should pay for it. But now China and India have access to low-carbon technology which will allow them to increase standard of living while at the same time not release as much CO2 as we did to do the same thing. Should we still be expected to pay?
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