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Zhengzhou Nissan Automobile Co., Ltd., one of the two Chinese joint ventures of Nissan Motor
Co., Ltd. will produce X-trail and Qashqai, two SUV models, for its sister company Dongfeng Nissan Passenger Vehicle Company.

A top executive of Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. (DFL) has not denied the story, only saying that the plan is currently under feasibility study and will be released in the summer of 2010, when the new plant of Zhengzhou Nissan starts production.

This year, besides NV200, a new car model that is going to be rolled out, Zhengzhou Nissan will acquire the sales right of another imported car model from Nissan. By far, Nissan (China) Investment Co., Ltd. has held talks with some major dealers for the sale.

Currently, Zhengzhou Nissan is selling SUV Paladin, pick-up trucks, minivans, and light-duty truck Cabstar. After the launch of NV200, the company plans to divide its sales network according to target customers.

Zhengzhou Nissan’s plan is to boost the number of its sales outlets from 170 to 200 around China. Last year, the company sold 56,600 vehicles, rising 20% from a year earlier.

source : Gasgoo.com via evwind.es

According to the Beijing Youth Daily, two to four-seat electric mini passenger vehicles will enter the Chinese market by 2015.

Zhen Zijian, deputy director of 863 major projects for energy-saving and new energy vehicles in the Ministry of Science and Technology, said the projected number of electric cars sold will reach to 2.66 million units, which leads to some 21.2 billion kWh of electricity needed throughout the year.

The electric mini car can be driven at the highest speed of 80 kilometers per hour and run 100 kilometers without charging.

He added that electric city buses and plug-in electric buses will also be produced by 2015. At that time, the output of electric vehicles will make up 10 percent of the total number of electric passenger vehicles.

China National Offshore Oil Corp. is considering building battery-changing stations for electric vehicles, part of a broader push by the state-owned oil giant that could give a boost to electric cars in China’s huge market.

Shan Lianwen, director of corporate strategy at China National Offshore, one of three big Chinese-government oil companies, said it is looking into the possibility of building a nationwide network of battery-changing stations, where drivers of electric vehicles could swap out an empty car battery for a full one.

China National Offshore in July invested 5 billion yuan ($732 million) in Tianjin Lishen Battery Joint-Stock Co., a Chinese company that makes lithium batteries for electric vehicles. Lishen said it would use the investment to build 20 battery assembly lines at a new facility in the port city of Tianjin.

Chinese leaders have adopted a plan aimed at turning the country into one of the leading producers of hybrid and all-electric vehicles within three years, and making it the world leader in electric cars and buses.

China’s intention, in addition to creating a world-leading industry that will produce jobs and exports, is to reduce urban pollution and decrease its dependence on oil. China wants to raise its annual production capacity to 500,000 hybrid or all-electric cars and buses by the end of 2011, from 2,100 last year.

Electric cars have several practical advantages in China. Intercity driving is rare. Commutes are fairly short and frequently at low speeds because of traffic jams. So the limitations of all-electric cars are less of a problem.

BYD has 5,000 auto engineers and an equal number of battery engineers, most of them living at its headquarters in Shenzhen in a cluster of 15 yellow apartment buildings, each 18 stories high.

China’s government is backing the industry’s push toward electric cars. Large fleet owners, in China, that’s mainly regional governments and taxi companies, now get subsidies worth up to $8,800 per vehicle if they buy electric. Beijing has also announced that it will spend $1.5 billion in grants to help its auto industry innovate.

Toyota Motor Corp., the largest automaker in China, will develop a mini family car targeted at China, one of the biggest auto markets worldwide, said sources.

Compared with various models that Toyota Motor is selling in China, the new car will be fixed at a low price range. The automaker expects the car to attract customers that are seeking their first cars and drive up its sales in the inland areas of the country.

The new car is predicted to have displacement of 1.2 liters and hold about four persons. The automaker is scheduled to start to produce the car before 2015.

Toyota Motor will make a thorough survey to the need of customers with the help of its outlets in China, so as to decide the shape, configuration, and the price of the new product.

For the moment, the Japanese auto titan has about 500 franchise stores in the country. It will greatly lift the number of outlets in inland areas as well as small and medium cities.

By George Gao From:Gasgoo.com

Shanghai, September 8 (Gasgoo.com) Nissan Motor unveiled its zero-emission electric car “Leaf” on April 2, and is planning to import the Leaf model to the Chinese market in 2011, Chinese media reported today. Nissan’s China venture Dongfeng Nissan may produce the Leaf later.

The Nissan Leaf will be the first model of the electric vehicle series to be made by Nissan Motor. Japan’s No. 3 automaker and its French partner, Renault SA, have been the most aggressive proponents of pure electric vehicles in the auto industry, planning to mass-market the clean but expensive zero-emission cars globally in 2012.

Nissan will begin selling the first Leaf cars in the United States and Japan in the second half of 2010, to add more models in rapid succession. In 2011, Dongfeng Nissan will import the Leaf cars to China for sale, and the joint venture will produce the Leaf model if the Chinese market demand is rising.

Toyota Motor and Volkswagen also plan to launch electric cars in the next several years. Chinese carmakers BYD Auto and Chery Auto have already unveiled their own-brand electric cars, with BYD’s F3DM to go on mass sale later this month, and Chery’s S18 model to sell in mid-2010.

Nissan’s Leaf will have a cruising range of 160km (100 miles) and a top speed of over 140 km/hour (76 mph) on a single battery charge. It is scheduled to start mass-production for global sale by 2012.

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced the development of a Dual Injector system designed to improve fuel efficiency in small-displacement gasoline engines. The new fuel delivery system, the first of its kind in the world*1, uses an injector for each port rather than one per cylinder – speeding up fuel vaporization, reducing the amount of unburned fuel and reducing hydrocarbon emissions. Nissan will introduce the new system in production vehicles starting early in fiscal 2010.

While most current gasoline engines utilize one injector per cylinder (furnishing fuel to two intake ports), the new Nissan Dual Injector system doubles the number of injectors per cylinder. This reduces the diameter of the fuel droplets by about 60%, resulting in smoother, more stable combustion.

The system also adds continuous valve timing control on the exhaust side to conventional intake-side control, improving heat efficiency, reducing pumping losses and raising fuel efficiency by up to 4%*2 in sync with the dual injectors.

Left: One port of the Dual Injector Right: Conventional system injecting to both ports

While similar in theory to “direct-injection” systems, which also inject fuel directly into cylinders, such direct injection systems are difficult to use on small-displacement engines because they require a high-pressure pump that complicates system design, making component layout less cost-efficient. In contrast, the Nissan Dual Injector system is lighter and structurally simpler because it furnishes fuel at normal pressures, reducing cost by about 60% compared to direct-injection engines of similar displacement.

The new Dual Injector system also uses half the amount of rare metals in the catalyzer while maintaining the efficiency of the catalytic conversion system. That number could potentially be reduced to 75% in combination with the ultralow-rare-metal catalysts that were introduced in 2008.

“We consider it important to further improve the fuel efficiency of gasoline engines as demand for gasoline and other internal-combustion systems continues to increase around the world,” said Shuichi Nishimura, Corporate Vice President, Nissan Powertrain Engineering Division. “By widely applying the Dual Injector system on small-displacement engines, we hope to help reduce CO2 emissions and conserve rare metals.”

Nissan has been addressing a wide range of actions under “Blue Citizenship,” which represents the company’s desire to protect the blue planet and to be a corporate citizen that can live symbiotically with people and society. These efforts range from such global issues as the environmental protection to contribution to communities, promoting diversity and making personal mobility available to as many people as possible. Nissan continues promoting the “Nissan Green Program 2010,” based on the “Blue Citizenship” spirit by introducing effective technologies, products and services into the market.

*1: Mass production passenger cars (Nissan’s research).
*2: Compared with Nissan gasoline-powered engines in the same class.

From : Gasgoo.com

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. plans to launch its lithium ion battery-driven vehicles in the Chinese market in 2011, according to Yasuaki Hashimoto, president of Nissan (China) Investment Co., Ltd., China Youth Daily reported today.

The Renault-Nissan alliance signed an agreement for promoting the use of electric vehicles with China’s auto industry regulator on April 10. Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei province, will be the first pilot city in Renault-Nissan’s zero-emission vehicle program.

Consumers in Wuhan city, home to joint venture Dongfeng Nissan which will make the Nissan electric cars, are likely to use these vehicles first, in part of Nissan Motor’s efforts to size up the Chinese taste. But the number of such cars to be launched has not been fixed.

After strict testing, the company has decided to use manganese as the electrode material of these electric cars’ lithium ion batteries, as manganese-lithium batteries perform better than iron-lithium batteries in terms of stability and security.

With a maximum speed of 140 km/h, Nissan electric cars are applicable to expressways, said Mr. Hashimoto, adding that his company would produce electric cars in China, even without regard to the country’s abundant rare earth.

In addition, Nissan lithium ion battery-driven vehicles will be released to the Japanese and the U.S. markets in 2010, and enter other markets in the world from 2012, said Yasuaki Hashimoto.

SHANGHAI (AP) — General Motors Corp. said Wednesday that sales in China jumped 38 percent in the first half of this year, helped by strong demand for minivans and other small vehicles.

Strong growth in China and other emerging markets is crucial for GM’s recovery as it works to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. While GM has slashed jobs and closed factories in the U.S., it is still expanding in China.

GM sold more than 100,000 vehicles a month in China in January-June for a total of 814,442, a record for any half-year, the company said in a statement. That compares with sales of 1,094,561 GM vehicles in China for all of 2008.

The increase in sales was helped by stimulus policies, such as subsidies for replacement vehicles, and by strong growth in inland cities that have lagged behind China’s wealthier coastal areas.

China’s total passenger car sales surged 21 percent in January-May, to 3.36 million units, while total vehicle sales climbed 14.3 percent to 4.96 million units, according to industry figures.

Industrywide sales are forecast to top 10 million units this year. In 2008, China’s auto sales grew 6.7 percent to 9.38 million units — the first time growth has fallen below 10 percent since 1999.

General Motors also said Wednesday it will suspend operations on its production lines in Russia as the deepening economic crisis squeezes Russian consumers’ demand for new cars.

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Unbelieving that Nissan will set up for 1.0 Litre entry model just only 870,000 – 890,000 Yen compare to Pino Model 660 cc begin at 860,000 Yen.

Nissan could be cut pricing on them because They move to produce at Thailand by A-platform Project and then may be discontinue Pino Sales.

The next March model to be cheapest price of Non-Mini segment.

By George Gao From:Gasgoo.com
Shanghai, (Gasgoo.com) Guangzhou Toyota, a joint venture between Guangzhou Auto and Toyota Motor, has confirmed its plan to produce Toyota’s ‘business-class’ Previa MPV in 2012, 163.com reported today.

The Toyota Previa MPV model to be made in China will be code-named “085X” (Previa) and it will be produced on the new “MC-M” platform, which is also to make the next-generation Toyota Highlander SUV in 2014.

After the Chinese production of Toyota Highlander was started last month, the next focus of Guangzhou Toyota is shifting to the ‘business-class’ Previa, to save this Toyota MPV model from oblivion.

Guangzhou Toyota has produced Toyota’s small car (subcompact) Yaris, mid-to-high-end sedan Camry and luxury SUV Highlander, but Toyota MPV is still absent from the venture’s product line-up.

Meanwhile, Dongfeng Nissan and Guangzhou Honda, the two other Guangzhou-based ventures of Japanese carmakers, have MPV models as their heavyweight products.

The China-made Honda Odyssey MPV sold 2,174 units in May, as one of the top 3 MPV models in the Chinese market, and sales of Dongfeng Nissan’s Livina MPV are making Guangzhou Toyota more envious.

(Gasgoo.com) Nissan Motor will launch its fourth-generation March small car in early 2010 and will introduce the five-door model to its Chinese venture Dongfeng Nissan for production. The China-made Nissan March small car is likely to be rolled out in the first half of next year.

Nissan launched its first-generation March in 1982 as a classical small car. The current March model on the global markets measures 3,695mm x 1,660mm x 1,525mm, with a 2,430mm-long wheelbase. The new model is reportedly based on a revamped B-platform with a new engine of 1.2 liters – 1.3 liters and also retaining the HR15DE.(Actually will be used A-platform Not B-Platform)

An executive of Dongfeng Nissan recently said that the Nissan March will be introduced in the original to the joint venture for Chinese production, but it is also possible to modify or revamp some parts of the small car to meet the needs of Chinese buyers. It may be priced between 70,000 yuan ($1,030) and 90,000 yuan.

Nissan Motor (China) Ltd has also revealed that the company will start selling electric cars in China by 2012, believing the world’s most populous country is one of the most important markets for electric cars.