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Nissan introduces hybrid version of Murano to China first

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Nissan announced that the all-new Murano, including the hybrid version ( earlier post ), is officially available for sale from its joint venture in China, Dongfeng Nissan Passenger vehicle company (DFL-PV). As a key market in Nissan’s global business, China is the first market to introduce the hybrid version of Murano.

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Nissan in China

Revenge of the Electric Car

Nissan Motor Co.’s ’s Chinese venture partner, have formed a partnership to promote electric car transport in the city of Guangzhou. The Renault-Nissan Alliance, which will start marketing electric cars in the U.S. The Renault-Nissan Alliance, which will start marketing electric cars in the U.S. 2009 8:54PM.

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Plugless: first wireless charger to provide 1 million charge hours for PEVs

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In 2014 Plugless began selling 3.3kW wireless EV chargers for Chevy Volt and Nissan LEAF. Plugless continues to be the only wireless EV charger for sale to consumers in the world. 1 st production wireless EV charger to inductively charge a Chinese production EV. 1 st 7.2kW wireless EV charger available for purchase.

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Volvo Group to acquires 45% of Dongfeng Commercial Vehicles for $900M; Volvo to become world’s largest manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks

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AB Volvo has signed an agreement with the Chinese vehicle manufacturer Dongfeng Motor Group Company Limited (DFG) to acquire 45% of a new subsidiary of DFG, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicles (DFCV), which will include the major part of DFG’s medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles business. China is the world’s largest truck market.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

Nissan Leaf 10,238. It’s a robust list of a variety of models–the majority of which are focused on the hot crossover segment–with total sales of more than 150,000 from six major automaker groups. Nissan Leaf – the Standard Bearer. Road Trip: 2020 Nissan Leaf ; News: The Nissan Ariya Crossover.

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Tesla mystery solved: Exactly how much power your Model 3 and Model Y produces in Australia revealed

EV Central

Looking to China Key to the performance outputs is the Chinese owner’s manuals for the Model 3 and Model Y. And the Nissan Leaf e+ gets the same electric motor as the regular Leaf, but it makes more power courtesy of the bigger battery pack. Each has a section that shows exactly how much power the electric motors produce.

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Who is winning the green car race? Part II. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

In last week’s edition of The Green Piece Column, we looked at the leaders in the green car race including the likes of Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen and Nissan. Thanks to a $528million Federal loan the company will also begin work on ‘Project NINA’ to design and assemble a second-generation saloon car for sale in 2012. Fisker Automotive.