Nissan to release electric SUV next month – report
July 27, 2009 by Matt Brogan
According to a report published in Japan’s Best Car Magazine, Nissan is planning to release three electric cars in the US market from next week.
At least one of the vehicles, to go on sale August 2, will be an SUV, similar in size to that of the Nissan Rogue (sold as Dualis in Australia).
The report says the electric SUV will measure 4165mm in length and will have a cruising range in excess of 160 kilometres.
Other variants are believed to be a competitor to Mitsubishi’s iMiEV and an electric version of the Nissan Versa (sold here as Tiida).
Nissan has previously said it intends to sell more than five million EV units on the mass market by 2012.
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Yeah! An SUV with a range of 160 km. A lifestyle vehicle that limits you to within 80 km of home base.
“Dad, can we go fishing or camping?” “Sure son, we should be able to camp in the shopping centre carpark, then buy some fish when it opens in the morning”.
What a waste of time.
Soccer mumms will love it but.
I prefer the name of Rogue to Dualis, and I think the styling is more cohesive than its brother. It also has family ties, because it looked like the old Murano.
DE,
You could take a petrol generator with you. I love the idea of electric cars and i think they have a future in personal transport. But DE is correct. The infrastructure needs to be set up before i would conceder the plug in alternative. Other than that I can see only positives.
Wont be released into the Australian market for another few years.
The Cube on the other hand… Nissan Australia are still planning to release the Cube to the Aussie market around the 1st qtr of 2010
“The infrastructure needs to be set up before i would conceder the plug in alternative”
I think Canberra are starting their EV infrastructure next year. Not sure about other states.
At the end of the day what percent of your annual journeys are more than 80Kms from base?? 1%, 3% , 5%??? I should think most will have one EV to run around and a petrol/hybrid for those big trips.