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Leaf EV, Your next car? Nissan IS serious.

Monday, January 4, 2010 9:37:22 AM

hybrid, electric vehicle, EV, Russia, France, Leaf, Israel, Nissan Leaf, China, Shai Agassi, Renault

As you know hybrids are blossoming and Electric Vehicles are not far behind.

First Israel is going all electric. Renault is manufacturing EVs for them.

France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are well underway. Next, it seems Australia could follow according to the expert. The first 7 minutes is professor BS, but from 7 minutes in[when Agassi speaks], it gets gripping.

http://fora.tv/2009/07/22/The_Electric_Horizon_Shai_Agassi

Consider as well that China is partnering with Russia in a huge battery plant for Novosibirsk, ready for 2011 with three production lines and a fourth production line by 2012.

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/12/rusnano-20091228.html

Is it possible that used gas guzzlers may become difficult to unload?

Some 'Nissan Leaf' story headings from: AutoBlogGreen.com
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Nissan LEAF named one of Time's top 50 inventions of 2009

REPORT: Nissan Leaf coming to Vancouver in 2011

Nissan will bring Leaf electric car to Salon EVER in Monaco

Nissan CEO is bullish for Leaf's success, says million plug-ins by 2015 an easy goal

Nissan Leaf, the tip of mass market EV spear

Official: Nissan Leaf reservations start in the spring; 20,000 predicted by end of 2010
[ The company said that, "Nearly 22,000 people in North America have contacted
Nissan since the ...]

Nissan and San Francisco team up on EV charging in Bay Area
[ Nissan is steaming ahead at full speed on its electric car plans but it's not ignoring
the infrastructure elements required to make those vehicles a viable proposition. ]

REPORT: Nissan may offer optional higher-capacity batteries at premium
[ It looks like Tesla probably won't be alone in offering different-sized battery packs in
its future electric vehicles.]

Looks like Nissan plans to lead the EV charge. Quality first, I hope.

AutoBlogGreen is an excellent site. Enter ' Nissan Leaf ' for these stories.

Looks as though Nissan is committed, but that's just my impression.

Classic cars? Just a personal weakness.
Only drive on Sundays. Two or three a year. Gas consumption, . . minimal.
And no, I do not own any of these. They are sweet though, eh? TG

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Comments

Steve sgf468 # Wednesday, January 6, 2010 12:12:28 PM

You have a fascinating blog. I watched some of the video on the electric car movement in Australia. My grandson and I will watch the whole thing when we start his home school this morning. Thanks very much for sharing.
steve

TonyGuitarT-G # Thursday, January 7, 2010 8:35:26 AM

TIP:
This is an interesting Website in India

http://indianautosblog.com/2009/10/gm-will-sell-not-hundreds-but-thousands-of-electric-chevrolet-sparks

http://indianautosblog.com/

Karl Slym, President and Managing Director, GM India -

We are going to manufacture not in hundreds but in thousands the electric car we would be launching next year

Source – Business Line
Entry posted on October 20th, 2009 by Jaz and is filed under Chevrolet, Electric vehicles.
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Tags: Chevrolet Spark electric, Chevrolet Spark EV

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Steve sgf468 # Thursday, January 7, 2010 12:56:24 PM

Fascinating. It seems that Europe, Australia, and India are going to out pace the USA in electric cars. It's very difficult to make sweeping changes like this in the US because there are so many private interests involved with oil. They have so much political power that things just get put back on a shelf and not done. One can only hope. Thanks for sharing.

One other thing, I wonder if it is really too late. So much of the damage has been done already the process of eventual destruction of the planet may have passed the point of no return. What do you think?
steve

TonyGuitarT-G # Friday, January 8, 2010 7:54:53 AM

Warming is just a diversion Steve. There is all kinds of hope, but the true issue is world pollution.

Pollution is far more tangible, [read: measurable]. You could more easily measure pollution from each industry and levy fair fees for air and water effluent.

That's why government and industry will focus on the nebulous term 'global warming'. Less specific.

There is hope because we humans are very small on a globe where the oceans are what, seven or eight times the size of landmass?

Volcanic eruptions like that of Mount Saint Hellens spews far larger servings of noxious gases more quickly than we humans do.

We do contribute to global warming though, yet it is a mix where solar cycles and nature have more effect.

More worrisome are the poisons we make to kill insects. Chemical companies can not take back their bug killers that are TOO effective.

If you are older like me, you may have noticed that today there are fewer mosquitoes, butterflies and shadflies. Partly good, but dangerously bad also.

Vast colonies of honey bees are falling victim to 20 or more maladies at one time so that a reversal or cure is not humanly possible.

Families in China travel about to pollinate orchards by hand using feathers on long sticks.

Tractor trailers travel about North America with cargoes of bee hives that are rented to pollinate crops mostly in the Eastern USA and Canada.

You may have noticed that many towns and cities are passing bylaws to prohibit use of insecticides, especially lawn weed treatment chemical mixes.

Toxic wastes from storm sewers make their way down rivers to the oceans. I doubt that fish and whales would thank us for that.

There is hope though. If we curtail our chemical poisons, [ seems we are starting on that], and adopt Electric Vehicles, [ and we are ], there should be a better environment for us humans and the bees, not to mention the birds who eat the poisoned bugs.

You heard about the 'plastic islands' floating out in the oceans. I wonder if wealthy nations have agreed to pay for cleanup of that mess. TG

Steve sgf468 # Friday, January 8, 2010 3:35:56 PM

What I see, TG, is a world controlled by greed. I'm 73 years old and I remember when people cared about one another. The majority no longer do. Where I am coming from is the Christian Bible prophecies. One is in 2 Timothy chapter 3. It describes peoples attitudes during the last days. 'People would be lover's of themselves, haughty, without love of goodness'. Then in Revelation chapter 11:16 it says that God will bring to ruin 'those ruining the earth'. This is why I feel that mankind will not get things under control.

I don't know your preferences in beliefs, but this is where I am coming from. I hope I have not been offensive, though.
steve

TonyGuitarT-G # Saturday, January 9, 2010 3:38:41 AM

Nothing offensive if you have chosen to be a person for the good of all.

Some people are self serving as you observe, yet there are very many good people, so it is too soon to lose hope.

The obstacle of changing the selfish attitudes of many young people is admittedly a big challenge.

The education of hundreds of young men who are supported and fed in the Osama Bin Laden camps to follow a violent destructive fundamentalism will be a difficult challenge as well.

These problems may be solved by persons more brilliant than I. ... I hope.

If integrity ever becomes fashionable, then the world will improve.

Doing the right thing for ourselves and others makes life better for everyone.