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Nissan’s New FR Hybrid Gives Prius Run For Money

Nissans new electric vehicle will go further on a tank that Toyota’s Prius electric vehicle.

Nissan’s test vehicle is based on their current Skyline car, and it packs a Li-ion battery system, with the transmission integrated with the electric motor and two clutches, and is slated to be mass-produced, though not in the skyline offering, by the year 2010.

The new hybrid has a specially manufactured electric motor-integrated transmission, allowing the car to become a pure electric when using only the electric motor, and also using energy that was recouped from the braking system as well.

The gas engine can be used to recharge the battery packs, even when the vehicle isn’t in motion.  Once the gas engine is engaged, it will run in the leanest most fuel-efficient manner possible.

Overall, it seems as thouh the motor will provide a charge comparable if not further than the charge given by the Toyota Prius, while maintaining the energy in the battery packs for a longer distance and time.  If true, it seems this could be a great hybrid once it hits the market in 2010.

Nissan to Unveil New Electric Hybrid

5 Door hatchback model to be first of four new electric hybrid models over four years.

Look out for the 2008 Paris Auto Show, as this is when Nissan plans to show off a prototype of it’s new electric hybrid car, priced at from under $20,000.

Nissan wants to make electric hybrids a major part of it’s sales line, dedicating 10 percent of all sales to these cars.  They want to do this by unveiling four different electric hybrid models between now and 2012, boosting sales of their electric hybrid vehicles to five hundred thousand per year.

The new Nissan electric hybrid, which is still unnamed, will appear in final production form at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2009, and watch for it to be priced around $19,000.  This is along with the fact that the car is expected to get an average of sixty miles per gallon!

Nissan Shows New Electric Vehicle On Wednesday.

Nissan’s New Electric uses Lithium-Ion Batteries, not nickel-hydride like the Prius.

Nissan would like to start selling their new car by 2010 in Japan and the USA, and by 2012 worldwide.  They are betting on using lithium-ion batteries, and making the vehicle purely electric.

The only problem with lithium-ion batteries is that they tend to fail after 2 or so years, whether they are in use or not.  Also, these batteries lose thier charge fairly quickly, causing the engineers to creat protection circuits to fail the batteries from doing so.

If Nissan can pull this off, i’d be nervous holding Toyota stock.