Nissan electric car

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The new Nissan electric car offers zero emissions and is the latest vehicle which features a front-wheel drive powered by batteries. It uses a rear-wheel power train delivering twice the power as conventional nickel-metal batteries. "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 2010 will have a unique body-style and is not based on any existing Nissan model," Nissan said in a statement.

Under the NISSAN GT 2012 business plan, the company has committed to zero-emission vehicle leadership, and has announced plans to introduce an all-electric vehicle to US and Japanese car markets in 2010, and then to the mass market globally in 2012. The Japanese firm is sure that demand for electric cars will increase after the economy recovers and oil prices rise. "When GDP growth comes back on a worldwide basis, there will be again attention on the oil market, which will trigger an oil price increase," Nissan's executive VP Carlos Tavares said in an interview with Bloomberg last Friday.