Update: Nissan Scrambles to Make EV Charging Stations
The Nissa Leaf EV is a state of the art hybrid city car, and even though Nissan wants to introduce the vehicle next year they have yet to built any places to recharge it. Could this be an Epic Fail for the company? According to Wired Magazine: The Japanese automaker is working with Ecotality to bring 11,210 chargers and 4,700 Nissan Leaf electric cars to five states — Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and Tennessee. Ecotality is getting a big assist from the Department of Energy, which has granted the Arizona company $99.8 million to underwrite The Electric Vehicle Project. Ecotality calls it “the largest deployment of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in history.”
Creating that infrastructure will be a huge challenge, but Mark Perry, director of product planning for Nissan North America, tells the Tennessean the company will be ready when the first Leafs (Leaves?) roll into showrooms in December 2010. “There is a lot of work to be done and not a lot of time to do it,” he said.
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