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Sales of Nissan e-POWER electrified vehicles in Japan surpasses 500,000-unit cumulative milestone

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Nissan announced that cumulative sales of vehicles with its e-POWER electrified powertrain ( earlier post ) surpassed 500,000 units at the end of March. In March 2018 an e-POWER version of the popular Serena minivan was launched, which was followed by the all-new Kicks SUV e-POWER in June 2020. e-POWER power train (for New Note).

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Symbio targets European taxi market with fuel cell range extender in Nissan e-NV200; 500 km range

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Symbio has integrated a 15 kW (net) fuel cell range extender in a Nissan e-NV200 electric van, with plans to introduce the vehicle to the European taxi market. It can be recharged from a low-cost power supply, and refueled with hydrogen in three minutes (3.8 Symbio unveiled the van at the FC Expo 2017 in Tokyo. kg hydrogen at 700 bar).

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Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2018: Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid plug-in minivan

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The Nissan Leaf won that year because it was the sole affordable battery-electric vehicle on the market. Over the next seven years, more than two dozen vehicles that plug in to the grid to recharge.

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MPCA to expand EV charging network by more than 2,500 miles in Greater Minnesota; 38 additional fast chargers

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Fast chargers can fully recharge an EV with a 100-mile range in as little as 20 minutes, depending on the car battery. The map shows EV charging station corridor groups (E, F, G, H, I, J, and K) to be built through this grant round.

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What the Nissan Leaf Has Taught Us About Natural Disaster Recovery

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Nissan, the Japanese-based company, saw an opportunity to utilize their fully electric model Leaf to assist in these disasters. million households lost power, and Nissan provided 66 LEAFs to the disaster-struck area.” million households lost power, and Nissan provided 66 LEAFs to the disaster-struck area.”

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11 Japanese auto, infrastructure and financial companies establishing new company to develop hydrogen stations

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As a result of discussions that began in May 2017, eleven companies in Japan have signed an agreement to form a new company in the spring of 2018 aimed at the full-fledged development of hydrogen recharging stations (HRS) for fuel cell vehicles (FCV). The initial partners include Toyota Motor Corporation; Nissan Motor Co.,

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Leading UK scientists set out resource challenge of meeting EV targets by 2050

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This represents just under two times the total annual world cobalt production, nearly the entire world production of neodymium, three quarters the world’s lithium production and at least half of the world’s copper production during 2018. Using figures published for current EVs (Nissan Leaf, Renault Zoe), driving 252.5