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Njung'e
#1 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 3:22:35 PM
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Finally Nissan is to launch an all electric car with a town range of 160KM per charge.US launch is in Dec,Europe in 2011 to be followed there after by global launch in 2012.The car is dubbed LEAF which is an acronym for
L - Leading,
E - Environmental friendly,
A - Affordable
F - Family car.

Check it out here;
http://www.nissanusa.com...ar/specs-features/index

Meanwhile,Arabs can start drinking their oilsmile .Kudos Nissan for this awesome innovation.Applause
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Njung'e
#2 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 3:45:47 PM
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And the Batts come with an 8 year or 160,000Km guarantee!!!
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selah
#3 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 4:04:17 PM
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the car will be going for kido 3M in US which is a good premium compared to hybrid vehicles in the market.
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nostoppingthis
#4 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 4:05:35 PM
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Demand for these cars goes up....
Power generation increases...
By how much will the electricity bill be affected?

but i'm almost certain it will be cheaper than using mafuta
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masukuma
#5 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 4:12:53 PM
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http://news.nationalgeog...70913-burning-water.html
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kingfisher
#6 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 5:00:46 PM
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@guka.....I wish that will actually happen, but I am 100% that it will not happen!!

I do not mean the Launch, no sir. The launch will take place but production will not!!

Reason....the oil and pharmaceutical industries are the richest / most lucrative and anyone (company or individual) who makes any invention that threatens profits in those two industries has to be made to tow the lines.....and there are many ways to achieve that by the crooks in those two industries!!!

Just imagine trying to get the likes of Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Emirs of Kuwait and Qatar, Saudi Royal family, Abramovic, etc etc out of business!! That is unfathomable, unless of course the new profitable business somehow becomes theirs.

So @guka...we are a long long way!

And also motor vehicles combined consume less fuel than the industrial plants....so the Arab is still safe.

Their biggest headache so far is BIO-FUELS
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Litro
#7 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 5:22:26 PM
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Waht if you decided to venture out of town and go to, say Nakuru, after you clock the 160KM? Will the car stop instantly?
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Gordon Gekko
#8 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 5:26:34 PM
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Why does it have a range per charge? I'm assuming it will have an alternator that will keep charging the battery so long as the engine is running??
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Njung'e
#9 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 5:34:36 PM
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@Kingfisher,
I beg to disagree.If my memory serves me right,one of Obama's election pledge was to find a greener way of motoring and running industries.This is probably why American motor firms are at the forefront of EVs (Chev have the Volt but it's more expensive than the LEAF).Secondly,you can't dismiss the amount of fuel consumed by cars on our roads as inconsequential to production (Currently stands at 35BCM per year and rising at 0.7%).If EVs take a tenth of that,then that is serious business and a threat too.Thirdly,LEAF is a creature of Nissan and Renault and backed by EU and US governments (True,the conglomerate is to benefit from a grant of 20M USD for further innovations).We all know those are not Jua kali workshops.Factor in a tax credit of close to 10K USD in some states such as Carlifornia and by now you will be sure the Arabs can only do one right thing....lol.
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Seeders
#10 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 6:11:18 PM
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the failure by billion-dollar car makers to develop an electric car for the mass market is one of the biggest conspiracies of this generation. a great idea by nissan but i do not expect it to push other manufacturers in the same direction. at least until oil reserves are almost depleted.

Big Oil rules the world.

http://www.ynetnews.com/...,7340,L-3545809,00.html
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/154/3271.html
http://green.autoblog.co...age-births-electric-car/
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