Nissan Motor unveils new prototype electric car

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Nissan Motor Co. unveiled a new prototype electric vehicle Wednesday with batteries twice as powerful as conventional technology, aiming to take a lead in zero-emission cars.

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The laminated batteries, jointly developed with electronics giant NEC Corp., pack twice the electric power of conventional nickel-metal hydride batteries currently used in hybrid and electric cars, it said.

Nissan aims to start selling an electric car in the United States and Japan in 2010 and the rest of the world in 2012. It will have a new "unique bodystyle" that is not based on any existing model, the company said.

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Nissan is also developing hydrogen fuel-cell cars as well as its own hybrid system, betting that zero-emission vehicles will take a 15 percent share of the global auto market in the future.

The company also unveiled a prototype hybrid which will also be launched in the US and Japan in 2010, as well as a new, slimmer fuel cell stack with double the power density of previous ones and 35 percent lower costs.

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Unfortunately these press releases almost always only draw comparisons to legacy attempts at fielding an electric car and never address the economies of manufacture of such vehicles as relating to gasoline powered cars.....

How much energy is expended making the batteries?

How much smoke goes up the factory chimney in order to produce such batteries and electric motors, and where's the break even point to overcome the same expenditure of energy in a similarly sized gasoline powered vehicle? In other words, how long do you have to own the vehicle to overcome the high costs paid for such vehicles compared to a gasoline powered vehicle of similar size?

How many toxic substances go into making the batteries/motors? What about disposal? What's the efficiency of storage capacity?

And the questions go on and on......It is said that it costs about $0.30 for the Saudis to extract a barrel of oil, and the process of refining oil into a fuel is relatively easy.

Unfortunately, there are many in our government that would like to hang their hats on such "pie in the sky" technologies at the expense of drilling for more oil.......These technologies aren't anywhere near maturation yet.

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Of course, the first people to get it is not the poor. Believe me, the economy doesn't instantly jump into mass production and less demand in one night.

The technology is matured, it's the rate that the economy is running. For example, computer processor doesn't necessarily need to follow Moore's Law. It's a way to increase yield to reduce price over the 18 months timespan. We can very well increase the time of 18 months to 5 months. However, this will be short-lived because the suppliers will be running out ideas thus decreasing usefulness of future technology which in turns reduce their revenue. It takes time for the economy to change.

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