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Nissan working new battery
Nissan working on lighter, cheaper battery
Posted Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009, 3:54 pm in Employee News
A year before it launches U.S. sales of its first electric family car, Nissan Motor Co. is developing a next-generation battery that will be lighter and less expensive, the Automotive News reported.
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said today that the new electric-vehicle battery is a few years off but will be smaller, lighter and less expensive than the lithium ion battery that will power the five-passenger Nissan Leaf when the car debuts late next year, the trade paper said. The Leaf battery will deliver about 100 miles on a complete charge, the story said.
Ghosn said Nissan eventually could outsource batteries for its electric-vehicle program to independent suppliers, the paper said. But for now, he said, the automaker wants to control battery development internally to control cost and production, the story said. (Automotive News)
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