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To sell 500,000 Leaf a year by .... 2013?
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/nissan-will-sell-500000-electric-cars-a-year-by-2013-says-chief/?partner=rss&emc=rss
2010:
- Nissan broke ground on a $1.7 billion a project to expand its assembly plant in Smyrna and build an adjacent lithium-ion battery plant that will be one of the biggest in North America. The facilities are expected to create 1,300 jobs.
- When it is fully functioning, the Smyrna plant will be able to produce 150,000 Leaf electric cars per year. The new battery plant will have the capacity to produce 200,000 battery packs.
- The Nissan plant investment was supported with $1.4 billion of U.S. Energy Department loans.
2011:
- cumulative sales of 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles across the Renault-Nissan Alliance by end of 2016
http://green.autoblog.com/2011/10/24/nissan-well-sell-1-5-million-zero-emission-vehilces-by-2016-a/
Realistic or pie in the sky?
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Slawsk
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If it's 500,000 units globally, that's not too pie-in-the-sky.
Mr Ghosn's credibility is solid. If oil goes to $150/barrel, then his projection of 500,000 units may be a bit conservative.
I do applaud Nissan's efforts to produce vehicles that don't consume oil and cost 40K.
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danielgr
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DrWhiner wrote:
[...]Realistic or pie in the sky?
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MalcolmR
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IF my aunty had balls, she'd be my uncle.
Malcolm
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CR-V9
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As a CEO he'd have to decide hundreds of million dollar decisions and look into 5-9-16 years in the future. He can't debate issues endlessly he has to decide. Of course he may be wrong.,
Now it makes sense Honda is hintting a possibilty of buiding a battery factory here in the US if the demands meet.
Is this Lithium Ion Battery the one that requires clean rooms to produce? I remember reading an article a long time ago that there is no infrastructure in the US for the battery that requires a clen room. So they had to import everthing from abroads and made the exactrly the same factory, too. I don't remember if it was A123 or not. It said that they couldn't find anybody who knew how to buid it nor supplied necessary factory equipments nor technicians nor engineers to supervise the construction. So they had to import an exact copy of the factory aboard and brought everthing here to buit.
I really don't know how this will turn out but I think this will help buid the infrastructure of battery industries. This will provide work and develop their related suppliers and they provide work place for people who are studying the technolgy and their colleges to produce more engineers and technical personnels. Infrastructure.
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