Nissan Leaf Plug In

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American Public Media’s Marketplace, heard on 300 public radio stations nationwide, broadcast a story today on “The New Generation of Electric Cars.” Includes information on the Nissan Leaf rollout. Marketplace contributor Sarah Gardner reports.

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Link to text – http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/05/17/pm-new-generation-electric-cars/

Victoria Nissan also offers a great selection of pre-owned cars and trucks. In addition to new and used cars, Victoria Nissan also services all makes and models. Victoria Nissan is located in Victoria, but we offer a great selection of new and pre-owned vehicles to South Texas, including San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Corpus Christi, and McAllen metro areas. You can contact Victoria Nissan at 866-808-7765 or locally at 645-7045. You can also visit our online showroom at www.victorianissan.com

The Nissan Leaf in Coming!

The Nissan LEAF will be available to consumers via lease or sale, in a single transaction that includes the battery. Steps to acquiring a Nissan LEAF are:

• REGISTER: Interested people can register for more information about the Nissan LEAF on www.NissanUSA.com. To date, close to 50,000 people have registered on the website. Registrants will be given first priority to reserve a Nissan LEAF.
• RESERVE: The reservation process will begin in April, shortly after the announcement of the price of the Nissan LEAF. Upon paying a fully refundable $100 reservation fee, registrants will be among the first in line able to order a Nissan LEAF.
• ORDER: Nissan will begin taking firm orders in August, for deliveries when sales begin in the driver’s particular market.
• EARLY DELIVERIES: Rollout begins in select markets in December 2010, with vehicles available in all major launch markets quickly thereafter.

Victoria Nissan in Victoria, Texas, provides sales and service for new Nissan vehicles. Victoria Nissan also offers a great selection of pre-owned cars and trucks. In addition to new and used cars, Victoria Nissan also services all makes and models. In addition to Victoria, our Nissan store offers a great selection of new and pre-owned vehicles to the San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Corpus Christi, and McAllen metro areas. You can contact Victoria Nissan at 866-808-7765 or locally at 645-7045. You can also visit our online showroom at www.victorianissan.com or our blog at www.victorianissanblog.com. 

Victoria Nissan, 6003 N. Navarro, Victoria, Texas 77904

All Electric Nissan Leaf

Nissan has announced that the Nissan Leaf will be coming to the Victoria, Texas suburb of Houston on February 5-6, 2010. This will allow Victoria, Texas residents to get a close look at the five-passenger, five-door, gasoline-free car which is scheduled to go on sale in select markets in late 2010.

Victoria Nissan will be offering local residents transportation to the event. The details will be posted on our blog closer to event. It’s important that Victorians, and other South Texans show their support for an all-electric vehicle. The more support Nissan sees for the Leaf in South Texas, the better chance we have of offering the Leaf to our customers in the near term. To get your name on the list email hpine@victorianissan.com, and write Leaf Visit in the subject line. We’ll be able to keep you updated on all Leaf events in the area.

Get “charged” about the New Nissan Leaf.

The Nissan Leaf may make "Blade Runner" sounds

How do you keep vision impaired pedestrians from being run over by silent electric cars? An electric vehicle traveling under 12 miles per hour makes virtually no noise, and advocates for the hearing impaired are concerned.  A blind pedestrian may not notice an approaching electric car, and the results could be serious.

What do you do to fix this problem? If you’re Nissan, your car artificially produces the sound of the vehicles from the movie “Blade Runner.”  Toshiyuki Tabata, a Nissan engineer, and his team selected the high-pitched sound of flying cars from “Blade Runner,” after enlisting the help of Japanese film composers. ”We decided that if we’re going to do this, if we have to make sound, then we’re going to make it beautiful and futuristic,” Tabata said. The sound system would turn on automatically when the car starts and shut off when the vehicle hits 12 mph. At speeds over 12 mph the sound of the tires and air traveling over the car would make it audible to pedestrians.

Nissan may equip the all-new Leaf plug-in electric vehicle with the system, pending approval from US and Japanese regulators. Tabata believes the “beautiful” sound may help sales. “We don’t want to destroy the brand of the electric car,” he said. “We want to have something that will enhance its image.” 

The Nissan Leaf will be available in select US markets late next year, and may be available in Texas in 2011. If you are interested in the Leaf, let me know by emailing me at hpine@victorianissan.com, and put ”Keep Me in the Leaf Loop” in the message header.  I’ll keep you updated on all the latest Leaf info. www.victorianissan.com

Source: Bloomberg.com