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Nissan on Sunday took the wraps off what it calls the world's first affordable zero emission car. The all electric Nissan Leaf will go on sale in Japan, North America and Europe late next year. This seats five adults and has a range of more than 160 kilometers that's 100 miles on a full charge at a top speed at around 140 kilometers or 90 miles per hour.
Providing power is a bank of lithium ion batteries, developed by Nissan and Computer Maker NEC. The cells are flattened thin laminated types and four of them are packaged together in a battery pack. Nissan has devoted a lot of research into safety insuring they won't overheat or catch fire especially during an accident. A full charge of the batteries on a standard home electrical socket will take around 8 hours in Europe but around 16 hours on the lower voltage Japan and US supply. Unless those countries it should be able to get higher voltage sockets can sort to help with charging.
A quick charge station like this prototype will be able to replenish the batteries in around 30 minutes and Nissan envisages an eventual network of the charges throughout cities. An important IT feature of the car would be a constant connection to the Nissan's data center of which information and entertainment will be delivered to the car. The car's navigation display will also show the reachable distance, based on driving conditions and battery level and nearby charging stations.
Owners will also be able to control the air conditioning and charging of the cars via mobile phone. This could be used, for example, to make use of a charging center's power supply and run the initial air conditioning at last before driving away thus conserving battery energy. Last weakness ensure to prototype of this system running on an iPhone. In Tokyo, this is Martin Williams, IDG News Service.
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