Tag: Nissan
Nissan VC Turbo engine uses variable compression ratio system
VC Turbo engine doubles thermal efficiency of current gasoline engines Nissan Motor Co. will unveil its VC Turbo engine, which uses an efficiency-boosting variable compression ratio system, at the Los Angeles auto show next week. Shinichi Kiga, the head of Nissan’s gasoline engine project group, told Reuters that the global automaker plans to keep improving […]
2nd generation Nissan LEAF electric car makes North American debut
2018 Nissan LEAF starts at $35,998 in Canadian dealerships Nissan debuted the LEAF in North American following the LEAF’s global launch in Tokyo, Japan. The next-generation of LEAF, the world’s best-selling affordable, mass-production electric vehicle, goes on sale in early 2018 at all 97 Nissan electric vehicle certified dealerships in Canada, according to a Nissan […]
Electric vehicles news brief July 10: Nissan hopes to lead in Autonomous EV technology
Nissan sees autonomous driving as long-term process that begins with enhanced safety technology, but will one day end in true self-driving cars Self driving electric cars are the Next Big Thing in the automotive industry and no automaker wants to be left behind. Manufacturers – see Volvo’s recent announcement that by 2019 all its cars […]
Nissan self-driving car takes to London’s streets for first time
Nissan self-driving car fitted with nearly two dozen cameras, radars and lasers By Costas Pitas LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Guided by cameras and radars, and negotiating traffic and roundabouts, a self-driving Nissan car took to the streets of London on Monday for the Japanese company’s first European tests of an autonomous vehicle. Travelling at up […]
Nissan, Renault, Mitsubishi to share electric car platform
Sharing electric car platform could slash prices to level of conventional gasoline cars TOKYO, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co, Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp will combine their electric car platforms in an effort to slash prices down to levels comparable to conventional gasoline cars, the Nikkei newspaper said. The strategy comes as auto […]
Nissan revolution: could new variable compression gasoline engine make diesel obsolete?
Nissan says new VC-T engine can choose optimal compression ratio variably between 8:1 and 14:1. By Norihiko Shirouzu ATSUGI, Japan (Reuters) – Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co has come up with a new type of gasoline engine it says may make some of today’s advanced diesel engines obsolete. The new engine uses variable compression technology, […]
Elon Musk issues press release berating himself for ‘hubris’…Who does that?
Your faithful scribe slowly becoming Tesla fan boy…one impertinent press release at a time Tesla Motors has just issued an extraordinary press release, one that makes me think maybe Elon Musk may yet compete head to head with the big boys of automobile manufacturing. As everyone on the planet now knows, Tesla Model 3 pre-orders […]
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