Italian scientists have recently developed a new kind of energy roof. The new roof can simultaneously from solar and wind power are two ways to generate electricity will be used Perugia, IBM ThinkPad X60 battery ， 40Y6799 ， 40Y6795， 40Y6797，Italy, an important historical and cultural sites in the city, explore and protection.

Currently, this new energy roof installed in the Italian city of Perugia, a historic old town. At first glance, the whole energy roof like a robot monster that is sucking the beautiful Italian city of Old Town. In fact, it is an archaeological site as the entrance hall on the ground floor roof, and the underground gallery of archaeological sites around the city of Perugia on the display are an important historical and cultural sites of archaeological findings, presents the history of the city of Perugia .

According to historical records, a regional city of Perugia in Italy, there is an important historical and archaeological sites - the ancient Etruscan city wall. To assist the public with the history of Perugia, and multiply, University of Perugia here for an archaeological investigation of the Italian scientist Ximerbour Cooper of the University of Perugia in this work. Ximerbour developed this new kind of energy roof and through the streets of Manzini Wei Yama build a roof, designed to help the mining industry and the protection of underground sites. The energy is used as the roof of the hall on the ground floor, which will serve to the entrance of the archaeological sites to be connected to the channel in the center near the metro station.

The energy roof three layers: the top of the power generation layer, the structure of the middle class and the lower glass plate and transparent pillow. The tip of the photovoltaic cells to power generation, and blot out the sun. Each photovoltaic cells can be programmed by computer, that to optimize move. The structure of the middle level five wind turbines installed. As a result, the energy can also umbrella both the use of solar energy productionFRU 92P1141 ， IBM ThinkPad R32 battery， IBM ThinkPad R40 battery from wind power.

The design is very creative, not only for Perugia offer a vision of the seemingly crazy buildings, but also for other cities, provides a template that the use of renewable energy production technology to architecture and urban sculpture at the top.

In Ohio, as an intelligent network project, which allows the lithium-ion battery for the network service of the community.

International Call Battery (Battery Internatioanl) launching the company announced it has chosen the lithium-ion battery storage of energy as a pilot project for the community of the company, the project launched by the utility AEP will be online this year.

International Battery Co., Ltd. CEO Ake AlmgrenPA3282U-1ACA,PA3083U-1ACA,PA3282U-2ACA, said the storage unit with refrigerator-size project similar to the core network connected to it and is responsible for driving high-current voltage for local service.

The Fellowship of the energy storage project, part of the U.S. intelligence network, AEP companies are installing smart meters and other technologies designed to reduce the residents of northern Ohio in an area of 150 square miles of energy consumption. AEP revealed that the project sponsored by the Department S. U. Energy will be officially launched in May this year, the project will run until mid next year.

AEP had been at the forefront of storage technology for the power grid, this technology allows power plants to use more intermittent wind and solar power, decrease of peak demand for electricity. AEP has installed a number of substations in Japan Insulator (NGK INSULATORS, LTD.) Company of sodium sulfide batteries, the battery can provide 1 MW and 2 MW of electricity for a few hours.
The project will use smaller batteries and different technologies, power generation company plans to install at each site at least 25 kilowatts of electric power storage unit, which can provide 1-hour electricity supply. AEP is expected to use a different setting, but the company has selected 10 sets of memory cells, these memory cells can store a total of 2 megawatts of electricity.

Energy companies hope that these relatively small volume of the energy storage unit consisting of a network capable of providing the same service with large-scale power plants, for example, to the electricity grid during peak power periods, or in providing mains power outage backup.

International Battery Inc. Almgren, said: “You can mix these batteries for domestic energy supply. These memory cells requires intelligence, may be different depending on time of day and the different prices and decided to supply power and storage time. ”

S & C Electric systems integrator for the project, the company said a distributed memory architecture reduces power transmission when the power loss, you can get the mains more convenient use of wind energy and energy community solar. Almgren said, a single unit of 25 kW of the storage battery of five families, or shopping center to provide electricity for about 1 hour.

The project also uses high voltage protection technology, the power generation companies worry that if multiple users within a community of truck, which will affect the local power grid load, the voltage protection technology overload can solve this problem.

Project long-term goal is to use community-based electricity storage to form a network, the main power supply to maintain stability.

Electricity storage experiments also use a variety of techniques, such as “Speed On” (fly), giant cells, and even the ice with the help of air conditioning equipment technology. A123 Systems lithium-ion announced in November last year, the AES power company in Chile, the 12-MW battery to the main electricity transmission network.

Almgren that once the community that large-scale electric power system and the centralized storage system has some differences. On drums, International Battery manufactured batteries can PA3097U-1ACA,PA3396U-1ACA,PA3467U-1ACAstore more energy, taking up space. Do not use hundreds of thousands of internal cylindrical cells, used by international business groups drummer diamond cell, the size is only the size of bricks.

Almgren, said: “With these groups of cells, can monitor and control a single cell, allowing us to optimize the system as a whole.”

Although the technology is quite simple in theory, the power storage system of the community, before the widespread there are still some technical and business challenges.

First, the battery storage is relatively expensive, energy companies, according to the traditional approach is difficult to make ends meet. Technically, small storage unit for electricity, there are some technical problems must be addressed, such as temperature, reliability, and other intelligent network components, such as smart meters, etc. communication problem.

Li-ion battery is not a class of lithium or lithium alloy anode material, the use of non-aqueous electrolyte solution batteries. First appeared in lithium battery using the following reaction: Li + MnO2 = LiMnO2 the reactionG1947， RN873 ，Y6142,GK479  of oxidation-reduction reaction, the discharge. Since the chemical properties of lithium metal is very lively, making lithium-metal-processing, preservation, exploitation and environmental standards are very high, so that applications are not widespread.

Later, the Japanese Sony Corporation of carbon materials for the anode to the cathode, the lithium compounds for lithium batteries, charging and discharging, there is no lithium metal and lithium-ion only, the lithium-ion battery is come. When charging the battery when the battery on the positive lithium ion generation, lithium-ion movement through the electrolyte to the cathode. Since the carbon anode layered structure, it has a lot of micro, reaching the negative electrode of lithium-ion embedded in porous carbon layer, the embedded lithium-ion, the more the higher the loading capacity. Likewise, if the battery is discharged (ie the process that we use) the battery in the carbon cathode layer of lithium-ion embedded extrusion, but also back in a positive direction. Back to the cathode of lithium-ion, the more the higher the discharge capacity. We usually say that the battery capacity is the discharge capacity. In the Li-ion charge-discharge process, lithium-ion transition from the negative positive → → positive moves in space. Li-ion batteries is like a rocking chair, rocking chair at both ends of the battery terminals, while the lithium-ion rocking back and forth, as the players do not run. Hence Li-ion batteries as a rocking chair batteries known.

In order to develop an idea of superior varieties were studied people from different materials. What makes an unparalleled product. For example, is lithium-sulfur batteries and lithium-thionyl chloride batteries are very characteristic. Their is also a positive active material and electrolyte solvent. This structure is not only yours-aqueous electrochemical system to. Therefore, the lithium battery research, but also contributed to the electrochemical theory of non-aqueous system development. In addition to using a variety of non-aqueous solvent, the polymer film was also carried out cell research.

Lithium-ion batteries for its unique performance advantages in portable devices such as laptops, cameras, mobile communications are universally applied. Currently, the development of high-capacity lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles, a process that is expected by 21 Century are beginning to use the power of electric vehicles, one of the major driving force, and a satellite, aerospace and energy storage aspects. With the energy shortage and global pollution. Lithium is now widely used in electric car industry, especially iron phosphate lithium battery materials, the look, but also to the lithium battery industry development and application. 

 With digital products like mobile phones, laptops and other products widely used lithium-ion batteries with excellent performance in these products are widely FK890 ， RN873 ,NF343，PC764，GW240used in recent years and gradually to other areas of development of product applications. In 1999, companies such as Shenzhen, BYD began commercial production of lithium-ion batteries. Traditionally it is the lithium-ion battery, also known as Li-ion batteries, lithium-ion battery has now become mainstream.

According to the Reuters news agency recently reported that the German Environment Minister Norbert Löttgen proposed photovoltaic net off 15% of the reduction of subsidies aimed at reducing the burden on electricity consumers. Mitigation measures of the government subsidizes two steps. Coincidentally, 13 Announced in January, the French Department of Energy that the roof panels solar subsidies for electricity prices was enacted for expropriation in 2006, 0.55 euros per kilowatt-hour by 24% to 0.42 euros and the remaining categories of the system is essentially unchanged. Judging China International Capital VGP-BPL2 ， VGP-BPS2 , VGP-BPS2A Corp analyst so Germany could follow Italy and France to reduce the subsidies. The industry should the European PV tariff reduction initiatives to poor to some extent on China’s exports of solar modules form.
Investment Advisor in a leading researcher in the energy sector, Jiang Qian noted that, starting from Spain, the European countries to dismantle subsidies photovoltaic industry, the European PV market, with a view to the progressive withdrawal of the government’s policy position.

The beginning of 2009, announced that Spain was to reduce the field of solar energy financing, the level of subsidies in 2009 only 500 MW, the actual capacity of the Year Spain directly from the 2511 MW in 2008 shrunk to less than 200 MW. Spain’s tough market ups and downs, so that the global PV industry, particularly China, are aware that not only rely on political support to survive, we can not expect the government to provide higher subsidies to the price give.

“What we need is that in a stable long-term incentives, through their own efforts in the photovoltaic industry to continuously reduce costs, to the final abolition of subsidies. Only in this way, the photovoltaic industry is really only hope.” Jiangsu business components of a photovoltaic device, the “Economic Information Daily” said the reporter.

Well, the world’s largest PV market, Germany, proposes a substantial reduction of scholarships, which actually makes the global economy, a high level of tension and alertness. If the error to repeat the Spanish PV market, has become an industry standard people talking about the recent hot topic.

“European countries, including Germany, in the PV subsidy policy changes and political changes in Spain in early 2009 are not the same, namely,” Jiang Qian, the “Economic Information Daily” reporters in the cast to draw up a report, “Germany , the current solar subsidy case was read out completed in 2008, an official of the country’s House of Commons. The current annual purchase of solar power by 2008 the annual rate reduction of 5% change at 8% Year 2009.2010, 2011, at 9 %.

Great Wall Securities analyst Zhou Tao, that the new energy economy, the German PV feed-in tariff reduction should, at the national photovoltaic industry profits compressed space. “Price adjustment before the German photovoltaic electricity EUR 0.43 / kWh is relatively high, government VGP-BPS2C， VGP-BPS2B， VGP-BPS5 ， VGP-BPS5A subsidies under pressure to think while PV market in Germany is a continuous influx of new businesses. Germany is moving, of course, the land of PV market was overheated to compress some of the margins. “Zhou Tao of” Economic Information Daily “said the reporter.

Europe is China’s largest exporter of solar cell components. Jiang Qian believed that Germany and other countries want to reduce solar subsidies will not have much influence on the global PV market, but maybe it will have on the Chinese PV manufacturers.

“So far, more than half of domestic exports of concentrated photovoltaic products in Germany. While the domestic companies to do in the new situation as far as possible to expand in emerging markets, the only way to reduce the negative impact of cuts in subsidies to a minimum. “Jiang Qian, the” Economic Information Daily “said the reporter.

However, Jiang Qian also said that optimism PV modules in China to develop during the financial crisis leading their overall ability to compete and control costs are lower, and the battery components, supplies of raw materials - International Silicon rates now, everyone has fallen kg from $ 52. “Jiang Qian example.

White Rabbit Co., Ltd. Jiangsu Branch Research priorities of innovative energy efficient photovoltaic concentrator integration technologies and products. 24. January, “said Qian Yi, Vice President of the company,VGP-BPS8, VGP-BPS8A the” Economic Information Daily “reporters,” The German solar feed-in tariff reduction for the future, exports are likely to have a certain influence, but at the same time, our costs are down to say, so hard to has little influence. “

Microsoft officials confirmed Friday that they are looking into reports of radically shortened battery life on some laptops after installing Windows 7.

Although a few users reported similar problems Y9943 ， FK890 ， RN873 ,NF343，PC764during Windows 7’s beta test cycle last summer, particularly with some netbooks, wide availability of Microsoft’s new OS following its October consumer release seems to have triggered significantly more cases.

“I upgraded my laptop from XP to Win 7 and my battery life went from about 2 hours to 30 minutes. The system shuts down (hibernates) without any warning. The powercfg-energy report shows the battery stored less than 40% of the Designed Capacity the last time the battery was fully charged,” one frustrated user, going by the screen name “dabruton,” said in a post on Microsoft’s TechNet user forums on Jan. 1.

“The battery life dropped to almost nothing after doing a clean install of windows 7 (it was fine before that, about 1.5-2 hours),” echoed another poster with the screen name “jw98029.”

How big the problem has become is unclear at this time. The TechNet forum dedicated to Windows client issues had 100 posts during January alone. Many received a Windows 7 error that said, “consider replacing your battery.”

Quite a few complained that their laptop batteries were permanently damaged by the drainage problems after upgrading to Windows 7.

“Good job Microsoft, you just cost me (and almost all windows 7 laptop owners) their battery!! Now what are you going to do!!?” asked one annoyed user with the screen name “DanLee81.”

The problems appear to not be subsiding, either.

“A couple weeks ago, we could get 45 minutes without worrying, now [we're] down to 15 or so,” one user, dubbed “newjones”, reported on Thursday.

For its part, Microsoft says it’s working on the problem.

“We are investigating this issue in conjunction with our hardware partners, which appears to be related to system firmware (BIOS),” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement e-mailed to InternetNews.com. “The warning received in Windows 7 uses firmware information to determine if battery replacement is needed.”

It’s unclear how many users might GW240，G1947， RN873 ，Y6142,GK479 potentially be affected. Microsoft announced on its fiscal second quarter financial call with analysts on Thursday that it has now sold some 60 million Windows 7 licenses.

There are some indications that the issue could potentially affect many, though. A Google search for the error message “consider replacing your battery” found nearly 73,000 entries.

“We are working with our partners to determine the root cause and will update the forum with information and guidance as it becomes available,” the Microsoft spokesperson said.

Nissan closed on a $1.4 billion federal loan that will be used to build electric vehicles and lithium-ion battery packs in Tennessee, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said Thursday.

A new battery plant is scheduled to open in late 2012 in Smyrna IBM ThinkPad X60 battery ， 40Y6799 ， 40Y6795， 40Y6797 and as many as 1,300 jobs could be created when the car and battery plants are operating at full capacity, said Katherine Zachary, spokeswoman for Nissan North America, Inc.

Nissan is retooling an existing auto plant to build its five-passenger, fully electric Leaf sedan.

The facilities will have the capacity to build 150,000 electric cars and 200,000 batteries per year.

The loan, which was announced previously, is part of the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program. Congress authorized that $25 billion program as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

The current administration has ramped up research spending even further.

Last year, President Barack Obama announced $2.4 billion in federal grants to develop next-generation electric vehicles and batteries.

The grants were split FRU 92P1141 ， IBM ThinkPad R32 battery， IBM ThinkPad R40 batteryamong nearly 50 projects in 25 states, with the biggest shares going to Indiana and Michigan to create job opportunities in the automotive industry.

“This loan, which will bring production of the Nissan Leaf to Tennessee, is a significant step in sustaining American jobs and American manufacturing,” said Scott Becker, senior vice president at Nissan North America.

Nissan’s Leafs are already being built and should be available by year’s end for about $30,000. The car debuted in Tokyo last summer.

Nissan opened a new, $100 million North America headquarters south of Nashville in 2008

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There has been a chicken and egg kind of problem with electric cars. Many people will not be able to charge at home, most of them time, but when it is impossible? How kind of person who has no garages or reserved parking spaces? Charges for infrastructure needs in electric vehicles that can become mainstream, which is a better place to  Dell Latitude D810 battery， Dell Latitude D820 battery， Dell Latitude D830 batteryhave decided to tackle the challenges and overcome its weaknesses. Has made steady progress, and auto-exchange station battery model a few months ago, and now a new round of financing of 350 million U.S. dollars a successful adjustment.

This series B round of equity financing functions, including HSBC, Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s new investor participation, and Lazard Asset Management. These investors will join the existing A-series, including Israel, the company, VantagePoint Venture Partners to conduct, Ofer Hi-Tech Group, Morgan Stanley’s chief investment and Maniv Energy Investment Corporation and some other investors, as shareholders, the better. HSBC, led a 125 million round of investment, this transaction is the world’s largest financial investment in HSBC, one of its kind.
 
As the transaction, Kevin Adeson, HSBC head of global capital as part of the financing would be a better place to join the board committees, and HSBC will own 10% stake in the company.
Of course, seems to be a better place ahead of its competitors, but the situation remains unclear, it may not matter much. They have a lot of energy into the battery-switching technology, but will allow the exchange of electric vehicle manufacturers have capacity? Some appear to have on board, but others are less enthusiastic.

Breakthrough in battery technology may also be better to reduce the local advantage. If the fast charge batteries have become more common or greater storage capacity can Dell Latitude X1 battery，Dell XPS M1210 battery，Dell XPS M140 batterybe hypercapacitors, battery swapping floppy disks will go. A better place is still possible in the regular charging station business, but the expertise it easier for competitors to copy

The last one in 2009, and medium-sized passenger car market in the doldrums. Decreases after China Association of Automobile Manufacturers statistics, the annual and medium-sized passenger.Dell Vostro 1720 battery, Dell Vostro 2510 battery, Dell Studio 1535 battery However, the depressed market conditions, statistics show the steam Association marked increase in passenger numbers on alternative fuels, an increase of 27.27%, these new energy sources, including passenger cars, that is pure electric cars and hybrid cars.

Has in the new energy vehicles in China successively announced measures to encourage consumption and increase the intensity of the situation, in 2009, new energy, the process of bus rapid industrialization accelerated. 1 Data obtained show that with a pure electric drive passenger car market in 2009 amounted to hundreds of vehicles, hybrid-power bus tenure has already reached 1000th Experts estimate that by policy, encourage, these data will increase it this year. “2010 will be 7 to 8 cities in a large-scale demonstration projects to promote new energy bus.” Electric vehicles in the National Engineering Laboratory, head of electrical and electronic equipment Ding Xue told reporters.

By 2011, China has electric vehicles, hybrids, hydrogen fuel cell vehicle based on new energy vehicles will be 50 units, and by “10 City, 1000″ Energy policy will be 10,000 new bus on the streets of the city. To put an important issue for environmental protection in front in the Industry: Currently, hybrid and pure electric vehicle batteries, including lithium iron phosphate, manganese and lithium, as the type of electrolyte used in lithium batteries organic origin, are reaching even into the environment would be a danger. The new energy-car battery scrap no national standards for the amount of new energy sources, increasing the passenger, the disposal of used batteries cause of keeping the urgent attention of the industry.

The recycling of used batteries cause pollution standards is empty

The battery is a key component of electric vehicles. Product Engineering, Nanjing Iveco, Senior Engineer Han Dong Bao said in an interview, lithium-ion battery Replacement battery weight, high lithium resources than the rich is the price expensive, so now the new energy-bus commonly used lithium - iron phosphate and manganese lithium batteries. He said that although entered after a long period of development, lead-acid battery with the mature stage, and was once widely used for electric vehicle application, but its capacity is small, bulky, lead-acid, the major weaknesses of pollution Bus Company gradually abandoned.

Electric vehicles, according to the National Engineering Laboratory, head of electrical and electronic equipment Ding Xue introduction: “In accordance with state regulations, lithium iron phosphate battery should not be less than 1500, the number of times, while the lithium-manganese battery should not be less than 500 times. Integrated Unit and storage of electrical energy, rechargeable frequency, cost and many other indicators, lithium iron phosphate batteries to be better than manganese lithium batteries. ”

Not long ago, burdening the end of life batteries, the environment seen the newspaper reports. Said in a report that can be a small button battery about 60 million liters of water pollution, water consumption is equivalent to a person’s life, a bad battery No. 1 in the world can only 1 square meter of land around the loss of agricultural value in making used. This can not help but think of the people in the electric bus is usually after the end of life lithium-ion battery is installed, whether the environment can maintain a “zero discharge”?

Reporter online access to a wealth of information is the general argument, lithium, since it is not heavy metal, virtually no pollution. However, one expert said in an interview that despite the lithium-ion batteries contain no mercury, cadmium, lead poisoning, a major heavy-metal elements, but the lithium-ion battery anode and cathode materials, electrolyte solutions and other substances on the environment and human health, there are still significant. Therefore avoided by standard methods of lithium battery recycling and further pollution of the environment was essential.

Scrapped due to the current lithium batteries do not belong to the state hazardous waste rules, which contributed indirectly to the recovery of used lithium batteries management gaps. Through several interviews, found that the state is currently no provision in the approach used in lithium batteries.

Ankai Automobile Co., Ltd. Pioneer Deputy Party Secretary Wang told reporters in the national standards set car batteries saturation less than 70% ~ 80%, it can not be used in automotive energy storage. To reduce the user cost of a car, Ankai and battery manufacturers and users pay for the use of battery-year lease, used batteries from the battery manufacturers will then. Shenzhen Wuzhou Dragon buses, an employee told reporters that companies achieving pre-market customers and battery makers to reach an agreement through consultation, to buy the user electric bus two PC764，GW240，G1947， RN873 ，Y6142,GK479 years later, the battery from the battery factory for recycling. However, battery manufacturers can not obtain a user with update service and collection costs clear, but two years later, decisions on the technical level and pricing.

But experts said that the bus industry, by electric bus for the bus company is more than the consumers, if develop appropriate standards, not the implementation of them seriously.

External battery recycling subsidies

There have been some developed countries abroad, the recycling of waste batteries ran a series of active exploration, and gathered a lot of good experiences. Submitted as the United States, Japan, scrap battery recycling industry, with its post, each of which with a ton of government subsidies for certain; South Korean production of battery manufacturers, each producing one ton, to a certain amount of margin to pay the collection of such coverage, which is demanding the fees and appoint a special facility for processing, some battery manufacturers state taxes or environmental management of waste battery handling companies tax breaks and so on.

This reporter also learned through interviews from the current battery life perspective, three years, basically is the upper limit, while cars were put into operation, a normal life cycle is 8 years, so that means new energy bus “life “are generally required to replace the 2 ~ 3-fold of the battery, battery charger costs and maintenance costs are very high. Claims that go there during the Olympic Games in Beijing, new energy-buses, the price for each vehicle, the battery only a few hundred thousand dollars. High battery prices are likely to be in the future the process of industrialization of new energy-bus stumbling block. The main customers of the new energy bus — bus company also hopes battery factory and manufacturers together to reduce opportunities for companies to find the batteries back spending. Ding Xue said, “reliability can only really benefit the user’s product to get the benefit of users will move to industrialization.”

Nissan’s all-electric car, Leaf, the compact hatchback, is their first U.S. tour as the Japanese automaker’s interest in drums, the vehicle before it officially goes on sale in December in a few states - including Texas.

Nationwide rollout of the vehicle will come in 2012, but other countries will be added to the manner in which the collection is installed, so Nissan.

The carmaker has already had discussions with Reliant Energy in Dallas / Fort Worth, and with the energy provider in Houston and Austin, and will be meeting with CPS officials 3rd February in San Antonio, said Mark Perry, Nissan North America’s Vice President of Product Planning.

The leaf with a nationwide tour that began in Los Angeles in early November, is also just one station in Texas, 5-6 February in Houston.

I started with the paper this week on North and South America, Nissan’s headquarters near Nashville, Tennessee, where I am to see and drive the vehicle.

It is a four-door compact model similar in shape 6Y270 ，75UYF ， C1295 ， GD761 ， GK479 and size, “Nissan’s C platform” car like the Versa is sold in the United States. But Perry said the car is slightly larger and roomier than the Versa, with some of these extra interior space made available because the car a flat bottom is not possible to have a gasoline vehicle.

The vehicle comfortably accommodates five people and can go more than 100 miles between charges, a series designed to satisfy “real world, the demands of consumers,” Perry said, noting that most Americans an average of 40 miles per day driving .

For those who need to continue as 100 miles, Nissan is working with various agencies, electric power providers and enterprises to build stations in a variety of settings, including the fast-food restaurants along the interstate highway system.

One of them is already in force, Perry - said in a McDonald’s done in Cary, NC Nissan has not that been set up, but - it was with a franchisee of the restaurant that wanted to be among the first companies in its field capacity for electric cars .

Charging on the commercial stations along the highways as they could take as little as 25 minutes to complete that work well in conjunction with fast-food restaurants, the typical road trip in such a restaurant would stop takes about 20 minutes, “said Perry . The chargers for the Leaf will be compatible with other electric vehicles prepared for the U.S. market, including plug-in hybrids from Toyota and General Motors as the Chevrolet Volt, for example.

Most charge the Leaf will be done overnight in the garage owner, Perry said, which will take place only eight hours if the battery is almost exhausted. This depends to a 220-volt, 30 amp charger, the paper buyer must purchase the base and installed by a licensed electrician.

The car also has an onboard charger for emergencies, which can be plugged into a standard 110-volt outlet budget. Would be discharged with a battery, the charging time of approximately 15 hours, “said Perry.

While no price for the house chargers were announced, t KD476 ， TD347 ， U4873 ， D5318 hey could cost up to $ 1500, if the cost of installation of 220-volt service included in the price, he said. But a federal tax credit of up to $ 2000 is available for home charging stations, and up to 50,000 U.S. dollars for companies or public charging stations.

The Leaf drives like an ordinary car with a brake and accelerator pedal, but it is very quiet, as there is no engine noise. And it has surprisingly quick acceleration, giving it the car with a V-6 sedan feel.

Top speed is about 90 km / h, even though I am not able to even remotely as fast Nissan test loop is closed at its headquarters building in Franklin, Tennessee, proceed

The car has no transmission - power from the electric motor goes directly to the drive wheels - there is therefore no change of gear, it has a very smooth acceleration from takeoff to highway speed and 100 percent of available torque. Is available immediately.

While some of the driving experience can compare with that of a golf cart, “says Nissan’s Leaf Cart” no golf, it’s the real thing. ” It’s designed to perform like any other highway-capable vehicle, with the only compromise is the limited area provided by the lithium-ion battery.

The battery is installed protected under the rear floor of the vehicle, where it is, as of impacts as possible in the event of an accident.

Under the hood, the electric motor, and on the front cover of the collection port. A flap is lifted up to the port where the power cord is plugged into the car open.

With its hatchback configuration, the paper has a lot of cargo space, which can be expanded by folding down the rear seat if needed.

No price has not yet been announced for the paper, but Perry said Nissan plans to make it a mass market vehicle, with a price similar to that of a typical compact family sedan in the low to medium price range. This seems to indicate a price beginning at $ 20,000.

A $ 7500 federal tax credit is for U.S. buyers Leaf available, but Nissan has not said whether the low price, it is promising will be calculated before or after the tax credit is applied.

The five-passenger gasoline-electric Toyota Prius Hybrid starts just under $ 23,000, and the new Honda Insight hybrid is just under $ 21,000. But they come with a gasoline engine with the battery-powered electric motor. The gas engine actually the largest part of the driving and keeps the battery charged.

While Leaf’s 100-mile area is not nearly as much as automakers had with the hope that advances in battery design, it is a great improvement over the 40-mile string of earlier electric vehicles using lead-acid or nickel - metal-hydride battery packs, as they are now found in cars like the Prius and Insight.

The Leaf is to have a battery life of 10 years, but that does not mean it will not work at the end of this period, but it is just under 70 percent of the position, 80 percent of the full fee up to this point, “said Perry.

Already, some 35,000 people have registered on the leaf site  leaf-electric car - to receive updates about the vehicle, he said.

In April, those who are asked who, if they want to keep one of the purchase of vehicles registered.

First, the paper from Japan will be imported. However, Nissan plans to assemble the car at its Smyrna, Tennessee production plant at the end of 2012, with batteries that are made in a new facility at the same place - partly financed by 1.6 billion U.S. dollars loan from the U.S. government.

The building is on the battery installation beginning NF343，PC764，GW240，G1947， RN873 ，Y6142,GK479 this spring, and it will be open from mid-2012. If it is at full production, the battery plant employing more than 1,000 employees and produces about 200,000 batteries a year, “said Perry.

The hand is the equivalent of 357 mpg when comparing the use of electricity, what it would cost the same car with gasoline supply, said Nissan.