Nissan’s Leaf Ushers In the Electric Era

January 6th, 2010 admin

> Nissan is a small player in the auto biz, but it’s about to shake things up by jump-starting the modern EV era. The smallest of Japan’s Big Three automakers promises to have an affordable electric car in showrooms by year’s end. Nissan’s been experimenting with lithium-ion batteries since 1996, and after dabbling with electric cars in the 1990s it is diving headlong into them. Company CEO Carlos Ghosn is a devout EV evangelist who firmly believes cars with cords are the future of personal transportation. He knows so radical a change won’t come overnight, but he’s confident that by 2020 at least one in 10 cars sold worldwide will be electric. It will …

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