Nissan’s Ghosn shows the goals for the deployment of electric vehicles in the U.S.

A highly esteemed group of business leaders, which include Nissan Motor Co. CEO Carlos Ghosn, has released its goals, which interestingly go beyond President Barack Obama’s objective. The group’s report is called the Electrification Roadmap, which lays out goals for the deployment of electric vehicles and supporting infrastructure in the United States.

While President Barack Obama aims to have 1 million electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015 as well as getting 25% of all sales by 2020, the roadmap is more ambitious. It sets a national goal of having electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles account for 75 percent of all light-duty vehicle miles traveled in the United States by 2040.
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topneuro - 11/18/2009 4:44:58 PM

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The battery cost $10,000, estimated battery life 5 years. Nissan sells the car but leases the battery. The battery lease is not $10,000 for 5 years. The cost of a lease (battery or car) is much, much cheaper than cost of item. By leasing the battery, the overall cost can be lower, and it can offer Nissan the ability to replace the batteries as the technology improves. Nissan is aiming to make the monthly cost of ownership of a Leaf to be less than a comparable gas car. The monthly cost of the battery, plus the electric charge, will be less than the cost of gasoline. Expect that the monthly payment for the car, the monthly battery lease fee, and the cost of the electricity to make its run, should wind up less than a gas powered car of the same size and trim level.

http://www.4wheelsnews.com/nissan-kicks-off-a-year-long-marketing-blitz-for-its-leaf-ev/

pennfootball - 11/19/2009 1:00:36 PM

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Brilliant and other car companies should be this innovative. Now if Nissan stopped lying and put engine oil coolers in their Nissan 370z and differential coolers like the ones they gave to the car magazines to test/LIE about...that would be awesome. InsideLine proved they are B.S.ing many people with their bag of little cheater cooling tricks.