Nissan hedges bets on electric cars
July 21 (Bloomberg) -- Nissan Motor Co., aiming to be the top seller of electric vehicles in the U.S., is hedging its bets. Nissan will use a $1.6 billion U.S. loan to retool a Tennessee plant so hybrids and other fuel-efficient models can be made on the same line as battery-powered cars to keep from wasting capacity. Electric vehicle assembly will be phased in “to avoid under-utilizing the plant while the market is developing,” said Senior Vice President Andy Palmer.Nissan Motors: Information from Answers.com
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“I would suggest that the EV market in the U.S. will basically be the California regulatory requirement, plus perhaps 20,000 units,” Anderman said. “As long as the gasoline price is under $5 a gallon, there’s no real market for EVs.”
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GM appears to be betting much of its future on the Volt, a car that can go forty miles (well beyond the distance an average US driver travels in a day) on a single charge.
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EVs could be a real solution if they would stop being scared to death about nuclear plants and nuclear reprocessing - despite the NEW scare of global warming they haven't gotten over this. But how can anyone expect that of a government that seems more interested in preventing Iran from building nukes while our own plants age and will eventually have to be shut down. Gaia gave us the wind and the sun.... that's all we may use, Amen.
You ask an interesting question, perhaps "no battery" will answer it.
Battery technology is at about 1/25 of a gallon of fuel.
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