The big news out of the Dodgers stadium yesterday didn’t have anything to do with the win over the Giants, instead it was our Electric Vehicle future as envisioned by the power that be at Nissan. I’ll spare you the many baseball analogies circling the bases of my mind and just get to it.
The black and white Nissan Cube EV Test Car was one of only two in existence. Mark Perry, Director of Product Planning, made a point to mention the only other one is in Japan. Basically, if you bang up the EV during test driving, he’ll probably make you swim to Japan and bring back the other one. But I did test out the EV (more on that later), and I did not bang it up, which is lucky since I don’t think I’d make the swim out to Japan.
The 2010 Nissan Cube EV (yet unnamed, but Mark did mention he’d be willing to let us drop our ideas a suggestion box on our way out), will be a 5-door, 5-passenger hatch that will get 100 miles to the charge. On a household 110V, it’ll be 14-hours from empty to full...
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