Nissan Desires To Have A Internationally Distributed Electric Automobile By 2012

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Nissan Motor Company said yesterday that it desires to produce electric vehicles that will be inexpensive and copious. The company hopes to penetrate the market with bulk-produced zilch emission electric cars across the earth beginning in 2012.

The number 3 automaker in Japan, after Honda and Toyota, will expose its first electric car on August 2nd and start the sale of it next year. The first electric cars will be sold in Japan and the United States beginning in April 2010; afterward internationally they will be sold in 2012.

In the United States, the electric cars will be created at the Smyrna, Tennessee plant and will produce more than 100,000 units a year at the plant at first.

This comes after Nissan received a loan of over $2 billion from the United States administration in an attempt to assist the company produce green cars. It will also get $1.6 billion to recalibrate the Smyrna plant and another $465 to build electric vehicles and electric drive power trains in California.

Other car makers are as well competing to create and construct completely electric cars. Tesla Motors, a United States ...
... based company, sought to have its prototype created by 2011. Toyota has said that it wishes to sell electric vehicles in the United States by 2012, like Nissan. And another Chinese automaker Dongfeng, has teamed up with a Dutch company to produce and distribute an electric vehicle.

Nissan is aware that without an affordable price tag, the vehicle will not sell well. The attractiveness of the Prius and Insight is that the cars are practically priced, so the electric cars will need to bevery similar. Mitsubishi launched the i-MiEV with a unreasonable price tag of around $48,000 U.S. dollars and even Mitsubishi is aware that the car isnot worth the money right now and is trying to cut the price for the future.

Of course, Nissan was hit by the recession along with all the other car companies. Nissan reported a net loss of 233.7 billion yen in the companys fiscal year that ended in March 2009. This was the first time Nissan had sunk to an yearly loss since Ghosn became the companys CEO.
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