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Nissan to Manufacture Electric Cars
Submitted by EcoActionT... on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 9:48am.
At a news conference in Tokyo, Carlos Ghosn, the Chief Executive of Nissan, announced that the company is planning to mass-produce electric cars within the next five years.
With the rising concern of global warming and people wanting more green vehicles, Ghosn says that Nissan is hoping to become the leader in zero-emission vehicle technology.
Even though the car industry has had problems with electric car production in the past (check out writer/director Chris Paine’s film Who Killed the Electric Car?), Nissan is certain that it can provide vehicles with 100% lower emissions. And it hopes to convince consumers that electric cars are worth buying. One thing to look forward to is that in just two years Nissan will have zero-emission electric cars for government fleets in the U.S. and Japan.
There
is still no specific model that will be used for the electric vehicle,
but Nissan did show off its lithium-ion battery powered car called the
Denki Cube at a New York International Auto Show.
You can read more about this story here. We hope that Nissan is successful in producing these electric vehicles, especially since they will be used on government fleets. That would mean a huge decrease in total greenhouse gas emissions and a smaller carbon footprint of the U.S. in other parts of the world. (1 vote) »
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Rory Short
We need to look at and assess the greenness of every step in the life cycle of each and every artefact that we produce and use. When one drives such a car it would seem that there are no polluting emissions but what is the environmental impact of the production of the car and its fuel and of its ultimate disposal the article does not say and these are very important too!