Nissan drives green car programme (BBC)

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Nissan Motor has revealed plans for a hybrid bio-ethanol powered car, as it sets about rebranding itself as an environmentally friendly carmaker.

The Japanese firm has no hybrid car on the market, and the new Altima sedan will be launched in the US in 2007 and use technology licensed from Toyota.
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Now it is hoping to plug into the growing worldwide trend for more ecologically-friendly cars, as energy-saving and environmental concerns hit sales of larger gas-guzzling vehicles made by US rivals such as Ford and GM.
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As part of its new green drive, it also aims to introduce an electric car, first in Japan, and a next-generation fuel-cell vehicle in the US and Japan, both soon after 2010, it said.
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Nissan also said it would also develop clean diesel engines in alliance with partner Renault.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6168745.stm

Welcome to the party. Better late than never.

[Porcupine]

1. Translation: Nissan Greenwashes and stalls for time.

Building electric cars is not freaking difficult, high school kids can do it. The "bio-ethanol" powered vehicle is the gas guzzler with a new chip and a fuel sensor. It's a bullshit move.

Nissan builds diesel versions of the Frontier truck but you can't have one.

Look here for available diesel technology


Or Honda's offering.

[Kolesar]

2. Nissan Motors funds "Global Climate Foundation" with $1 Billion

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