New Nissan Electric Café opens in Paris as the brand celebrates three billion EV kilo

by News Feeder, 04-11-2024, 07:30 PM

Nissan LEAF owners across the globe have travelled a landmark three billion kilometers, saving nearly 500 million kilograms of CO2 emissions*Nissan celebrated the announcement with the launch of a pay with energy pop-up café in ParisThe Nissan Electric Café marks the start of Electrify the World – a new digital community platform to drive awareness and engagement in electric vehicles and sustainable living PARIS – Today, Nissan announced that LEAF owners worldwide have achieved a staggering milestone, having collectively driven an astonishing three billion kilometers. The automaker celebrated the announcement by launching new digital platform, Electrify The World, and opening a pay with energy pop-up café in Paris.The pay with energy café is open to the general public in Paris for a limited time only, from December 16 to 18 this year. The Nissan Electric Café offers customers the opportunity to use cutting-edge technology to produce their own energy. They can then use this energy as a currency to pay for goods and services, allowing them to experience the electric lifestyle for themselves.The pop-up features a range of new technologies that embody Nissan Intelligent Mobility, including an xStorage Home unit developed by global power management company, Eaton, in partnership with Nissan. Powered by second-life Nissan EV batteries or new EV batteries, xStorage Home is an energy storage system designed to give consumers greater control over how and when they use energy in their own homes enabling them to avoid expensive tariff periods. The system now comes in six different configurations giving consumers greater choice to meet their energy needs. Consumers in the UK, Germany, Norway and also now in France can pre-order xStorage Home. “When we introduced the world's first mass-market electric vehicle, the Nissan LEAF, it triggered a new wave of interest in zero emission technology and was the first step on our path to achieving Intelligent Mobility,” said Gareth Dunsmore, director of Electric Vehicles, Nissan Europe. “Since then, our electric vehicles have grown in popularity, and today our LEAF customers have reached a landmark moment having collectively driven over three billion kilometers, saving almost 500 million kilograms of CO2 emissions. But electric vehicles are just one element of Nissan's vision. Our pay with energy café is the perfect way of showcasing how we can potentially revolutionize the way in which we generate and utilize energy. We want to allow people to experience for themselves how new technologies such as xStorage Home can benefit their lives today, as well as help improve the lives of future generations.”Nissan has partnered with a number of technology and energy companies to create this pop-up. Visitors can walk along a corridor of Pavegen electro-magnetic induction tiles to generate power and can try out the Pavegen photo-pod, where customers are challenged to jump on the tiles to produce enough energy to take a photograph. The café also features WeWatt's innovative bar seating system, which encourages people to cycle while sitting down until they generate a target wattage and are rewarded with a beverage of their choice.The opening of the Nissan Electric Café launches Electrify The World, a new digital community platform. Through the brand's network of social media sites and websites, Nissan will be using its expertise from almost a decade in electric vehicles to inspire new conversations about sustainability and cleaner living. The platform also gives users a forum to engage in discussion, interact with the brand and offer opinions. It aims to engage audiences across Europe and inspire them to join Nissan's electric revolution, living smarter and more sustainable lifestyles. Nissan is a pioneer of the electric vehicle movement, having introduced the world's first mass-market electric car, the Nissan LEAF, in 2010. Today, there are more than 275,000 Nissan EVs on the road globally with 76,000 of these vehicles in Europe. Learn more about Nissan's Electrify the World campaign and its commitment to Intelligent Mobility here.Notes to Editors* Totals based on estimates from Nissan's Global Data Center (GDC) as of November 2016. The total distance travelled and the amount of CO2 emissions saved by Nissan LEAFs globally is an assumption based on data gathered from Nissan LEAFs registered with NissanConnect EV, approximately 50 percent of total sales globally.Nissan Electric Café Technology Explained:EATON NISSAN xStorage HomeThe Nissan Electric Café is showcasing an xStorage Home unit. Designed and developed by power management company, Eaton in collaboration with Nissan, the xStorage Home system utilises Nissan's electric vehicle expertise and is designed to be a reliable and affordable home energy storage system for customers in Europe. Nissan and Eaton recently announced the full line-up of xStorage Home products, giving customers greater choice to meet their energy needs. Customers in Norway, UK, Germany and France can pre-order xStorage Home today with other European markets to follow in the coming months. To discover the full product line-up, visit http://www.eaton.eu/energystorage.Pavegen FlooringA custom flooring system that generates electricity from footsteps and captures data. As people step on the tiles their weight causes electric-magnetic induction generators to vertically displace which results in a rotary motion that generates off-grid electricity. Each tile is equipped with a wireless API that transmits real-time movement data analytics. Pavegen's vision is to redefine sustainability in the built environment. Cities are growing at a rate of 1.5 million people every week - Pavegen's technology encourages data-driven smart cities to be more renewable.Pavegen technology serves as an immediate introduction to the world of energy production within the Nissan Electric Café by harnessing the power of visitors' steps. The electro-magnetic tiles generate energy with each step that is taken.http://www.pavegen.com/aboutWeWatt Human Powered BikesPedaling generates energy. WeWatt converts energy from kinetic to mechanical to electrical as a person pedals. WeWatt encourages more activity throughout the day, E.g. on average it takes 30mins of cycling to charge a phone – the same amount of daily recommended exercise. But unlike WeWatt's other bikes, specifically for the café the focus isn't on fitness - the bikes demonstrate the value of electricity.The stationary bike 'bar seating' will engage users to pedal and achieve a certain pre-defined goal. Using the overhead counter and iPad digital interface users will be encouraged to achieve their goal upon cycling a certain distance and generating a certain amount of wattage. When the blue symbol lights up, it indicates the user has accomplished their goal and they are rewarded with a free beverage.http://wewatt.com/About Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Nissan is a global full-line vehicle manufacturer that sells more than 60 models under the Nissan, Infiniti and Datsun brands. In fiscal year 2015, the company sold more than 5.4 million vehicles globally, generating revenue of 12.2 trillion yen. Nissan engineers, manufactures and markets the world's best-selling all-electric vehicle in history, the Nissan LEAF. Nissan's global headquarters in Yokohama, Japan manages operations in six regions: ASEAN & Oceania; Africa, Middle East & India; China; Europe; Latin America and North America. Nissan has been partnered with French manufacturer Renault since 1999 and Mitsubishi Motors since 2016 under the Renault-Nissan Alliance.For more information on our products, services and commitment to sustainable mobility, visit our website at http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/. You can also follow @NissanMotor on Twitter.About Nissan in Europe Nissan has one of the most comprehensive European presences of any overseas manufacturer, employing more than 17,000 staff across locally based design, research & development, manufacturing, logistics and sales & marketing operations. Last year Nissan plants in the UK, Spain and Russia produced more than 635,000 vehicles including award-winning crossovers, commercial vehicles and the Nissan LEAF, the world's most popular electric vehicle. Pursuing a goal of zero emissions and zero fatalities on the road, Nissan recently announced its Intelligent Mobility vision. Designed to guide Nissan's product and technology pipeline, this 360 degree approach to the future of mobility will anchor critical company decisions around how cars are powered, how cars are driven, and how cars integrate into society. Nissan is positioned to become the most desirable Asian brand in Europe. http://www.newsroom.nissan-europe.com # # # ContactCedric Ratinaud Intelligent Mobility and Corporate Communications [email protected] Phone: +33616643481Kayleigh Edwards Intelligent Mobility and Corporate Communications [email protected] Phone: +441234755860Yesica Romeo Intelligent Mobility, Nissan Europe [email protected]

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Toyota GAZOO Racing to Exhibit the 'Vitz' and 'Aqua' Concept Models at the Tokyo Auto

by News Feeder, 04-11-2024, 07:28 AM

Toyota GAZOO Racing / Lexus GAZOO Racing will be participating at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2017. Toyota GAZOO Racing will be exhibiting new concept models based on the Toyota Vitz and Toyota Aqua. The Tokyo Auto Salon is an event for customized cars, which is scheduled to be held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, from January 13 to 15, 2017. In addition, the Yaris WRC, which will compete in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) from January 20, 2017, will be exhibited in Japan for the first time.

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Mazda Begins CX-3 Production at Hofu Plant

by News Feeder, 04-11-2024, 07:28 AM

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What can you remember after 60 seconds? Nissan challenges artist Stephen Wiltshire to

by News Feeder, 03-11-2024, 06:48 PM

World-famous artist uses photographic memory to draw the Nissan Micra after a 60-second revealSwaps pen and paper for innovative Tilt Brush by Google virtual reality appROLLE, Switzerland – One minute, 60 seconds. It doesn't matter how you say it – it's a short period of time. Would it be long enough for world-famous artist Stephen Wiltshire to study the expressive design of the all-new Nissan Micra – having never seen it before – and draw it accurately?Wiltshire has a photographic memory and is best known for his vast monochrome pen-and-paper drawings of city skylines. Highly detailed, these are often created after a helicopter ride lasting just a few minutes.But he's always keen to try new ways of working and was challenged by Nissan to draw the new Micra using Tilt Brush by Google*. It's an innovative virtual reality creative app that lets people paint in 3D using the HTC Vive VR headset.The result is a truly stunning piece of visual art showcasing the expressive and athletic lines of the new hatchback. "I like the Micra," said Wiltshire. "It's very futuristic, and I love the orange color. I like the shape, and I like the lights and the strong line down the side. It's a very clean design."Drawing cars is not new for Wiltshire. As well as his architectural work, he has a love of sketching large American saloons – complete with chrome detailing and white-walled tires – from the fifties and sixties. Recreating the Nissan Micra took place in a disused warehouse in Wiltshire's home in London and presented him with two unique challenges: He would be drawing in 3D rather than 2D, and he would be drawing full-size rather than to scale.Perhaps the biggest test was that he had never before used virtual reality as a medium. But after a quick practice with Tilt Brush's hand-held controls and intuitive interface, he was clearly in his element.The new Nissan Micra is the fifth generation and is a huge progression from the model it is replacing. Now positioned at the very heart of the European B-segment hatchback market, its expressive design is one of its key strengths.Featuring dynamic proportions, the fluid lines are further enhanced by a vibrant palette of bold colors. The premium styling continues inside the cabin, with a contemporary "gliding wing" dashboard. Soft-touch materials and two-tone upholstery are standard across the range."The all-new Micra is a true expression of our Innovation That Excites brand promise and we really want to emphasise that," said Jean-Pierre Diernaz, vice president of Marketing, Nissan Europe. "We believe the new Micra's design is very memorable and challenging Stephen to draw the car, and doing so using the innovative Tilt Brush app by Google is a great way to communicate that." About Nissan in Europe Nissan has one of the most comprehensive European presences of any overseas manufacturer, employing more than 17,000 staff across locally-based design, research & development, manufacturing, logistics and sales & marketing operations. Last year Nissan plants in the UK, Spain and Russia produced more than 635,000 vehicles including award-winning crossovers, commercial vehicles and the Nissan LEAF, the world's most popular electric vehicle. Pursuing a goal of zero emissions and zero fatalities on the road, Nissan recently announced its Intelligent Mobility vision. Designed to guide Nissan's product and technology pipeline, this 360 degree approach to the future of mobility will anchor critical company decisions around how cars are powered, how cars are driven, and how cars integrate into society. Nissan is positioned to become the most desirable Asian brand in Europe. Newsroom.Nissan-Europe.comAbout Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Nissan is a global full-line vehicle manufacturer that sells more than 60 models under the Nissan, Infiniti and Datsun brands. In fiscal year 2015, the company sold more than 5.4 million vehicles globally, generating revenue of 12.2 trillion yen. Nissan engineers, manufactures and markets the world's best-selling all-electric vehicle in history, the Nissan LEAF. Nissan's global headquarters in Yokohama, Japan manages operations in six regions: ASEAN & Oceania; Africa, Middle East & India; China; Europe; Latin America and North America. Nissan has been partnered with French manufacturer Renault since 1999 and Mitsubishi Motors since 2016 under the Renault-Nissan Alliance.For more information on our products, services and commitment to sustainable mobility, visit our website at http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/. You can also follow @NissanMotor on Twitter. # # #ContactRichard Yarrow Manager – Product Communications (Content) [email protected] Phone: +44 (0)7966 507759Steve McLennan General Manager - Product Communications [email protected] * Tilt Brush by Google is a trademark of Google Inc.

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Nissan to publish winning entries to 32nd Children’s Storybook and Picture Book Grand

by News Feeder, 03-11-2024, 06:40 AM

YOKOHAMA, Japan (December 15, 2016) - Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. will publish the two winning entries to the 32nd Nissan Children's Storybook and Picture Book Grand Prix, which was held in 2015. Miya Aikawa’s Nichiyoubi no Chiisana Daibouken (Small Sunday Adventure) illustrated by Akemi Miyazaki, the winner of the 29th Picture Book Grand Prix, took first place in the storybook category, and Kaori Yokosuka’s Chikashitsu no Nakade (In the Basement) won the picture book category.The winners were selected from among 2,414 children's storybook entries and 464 picture book entries. The contest, which has launched the careers of many professional Japanese writers, is part of Nissan's commitment to enrich people's lives by making a positive contribution in the countries in which it operates. Nissan will donate both books to approximately 3,400 libraries and 700 nurseries and kindergarten facilities near Nissan offices nationwide. Nissan is working with BL Publishing Co., Ltd on the project.Nissan has donated more than 200,000 books since the start of its storybook program in 1984. The concept has also spread outside Japan, with Nissan Iberia SA in Portugal starting development of its own picture-book contest with local governments and schools in 2012.Submissions for the 33rd contest closed on October 31. Winners will be announced in early March. ###

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TMC Announces Sales and Production Plans for CY2017

by News Feeder, 03-11-2024, 06:40 AM

Toyota Motor Corporation announces today its 2017 sales and production plans, including those for subsidiaries Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. and Hino Motors, Ltd., as shown below.

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Mazda Taking Orders for All-New Mazda CX-5 in Japan

by News Feeder, 03-11-2024, 06:40 AM

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Guindi and Sarazin battle GT Academy mentor in Dubai preparation

by News Feeder, 02-11-2024, 04:49 PM

DUBAI, UAE –GT Academy mentor Rob Barff has played a key roll in the development of Nissan's GT Academy graduates for many years, but last weekend he had a unique experience: The apprentices were chasing the master.GT Academy International 2016 winner Johnny Guindi teamed up with 2015 European winner Romain Sarazin in Dubai as part of of Guindi's Nissan Driver Development Program.The pair won their class and finished second overall in the NGK Racing Series two-hour event in Dubai while GT Academy mentor Barff won the race overall.The event was the final part of Guindi's preparation for his international debut with Nissan GT Academy Team RJN for January's Dubai 24 Hour where he will team with Sarazin and fellow GT Academy winners Jann Mardenborough and Ricardo Sanchez."These past two months have been the most draining days of my entire life, but it's been an amazing journey where I've seen myself progress and learn so much every day," said Guindi. "The program has certainly done its job. I feel more than up to the challenge of joining the team for the big race in January."Sarazin completed his first season as a NISMO athlete in 2016, competing for Nissan in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup."There were many different cars and categories during the race in Dubai, so we had a lot of traffic to manage," said Sarazin. "This will be very similar conditions to what we can expect for the 24 Hour in January. It was a great preparation and awesome to win the race and finish on the top step of the podium."We've got a racer here! Watch as @johnnygh94 prevails in a THREE-CAR wheel-to-wheel battle at the Dubai Autodrome! ??? pic.twitter.com/xygtml5YpZ— GT Academy (@GTAcademy) December 14, 2016How To Transport a GT4 Racecar from the UK to DubaiGo behind the scenes in the NISMO garage and find out how the team packs the Nissan 370Z GT4 race car and the entire team into one shipping container. This must then make the mammoth journey by sea to Dubai. Related: All GT Academy line-up revealed for January’s Dubai 24 Hour NISMO CalendarJanuary 12-14 Dubai 24 Hours, Dubai Autodrome, United Arab Emirates # # #ContactJane Johnstone Marketing Communications Director Global Motorsport Communications Nissan/NISMO Phone: +44 7979 710646 Email: [email protected] Ryan Marketing and PR Manager Phone: +1 678 644 0404 Email: [email protected]

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Q&A: The future of autonomous vehicles with CNET editor at large, Brian Cooley

by News Feeder, 02-11-2024, 04:36 AM

The future of transportation is coming into full view as autonomous driving technologies hit the road. It’s an exciting new chapter in the history of transportation. But it also presents many questions about what needs to also happen in terms of fostering customer adoption and trust in the driving public — and society — at large.Our first series of stories on DRIVE Publication shared a behind-the-scenes look at some of the people working on future driving technologies — from Melissa Cefkin, principal scientist and design anthropologist at the Nissan Research Center in Silicon Valley, who is researching the implications of cars and humans interacting together — to Tetsuya Iijima, General Manager of Autonomous Drive Technology Development Department at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. in Japan.To get a closer perspective from others participating in the conversation, we sat down with CNET Editor at large, Brian Cooley, a long-time technology expert as well as a veteran auto reviewer. In this two-part Q&A series, Brian shares his perspective on autonomous vehicles, the social acceptance necessary to see the technology come to the masses and the potential societal implications we may witness.Q: The autonomous driving era is obviously going to mark an important inflection point in the history of mass transportation. How important will it be to foster consumer trust?Consumer trust is going to be unusually important here. It’s not like other technologies that have come before — or where if you had a weird smartphone or an early computer and it didn’t go right for you, nobody died. This is a different market where the payload, if you will, the risks, are extremely high. Everyone understands that and as a result every consumer feels that little pang when they think about a car driving itself. Who might get hurt if that happens? That’s, first in their minds. Right after that, they start thinking about costs and whether or not the value is there.Q: So when you think about acceptance and consumer trust, what are the two or three things it will hinge on?I see three things that consumers hit me with all the time. The same big 3 concerns. Number one, they’ll say, `I’m a good driver. The other guy needs this.’ We’ve always thought this as drivers. It’s always the other guy who’s the problem. We think we’re great. Well 35,000 fatalities in the U.S. every year prove that we’ve kind of bottomed out on everything else in bringing that number down. So there’s the argument that well, you’re not as good as you think.The next argument is that `I don’t trust computers’ because they think that computers are all the same. Consumers see it as a general purpose computer that they’re going to stick under the dashboard of their car, say a Windows machine or a Mac, with all of its foibles because that’s low cost computing. If you look at the more specific computers that go into self-driving cars, I think we can start to assuage their fears by saying this is a computer like AirBus has a computer, like Boeing has a computer, not like what you have on your desk at home, which is a little more fallible.And another is people are going to push back a lot on this idea of enfeeblement. Let’s face it: The only two times in your life when you’re told that you can’t drive are when you’re too young, when your parents say no, or when you’re too old, and your kids say no. And those are neither very good feelings in terms of our identity, our own value and worth and ability to carry out our own intentions. So there’s a lot of baggage around that. Those are things that keep reverberating.Q: How long will it take for trust to reach that 100% point?The trust picture is a little unknowable right now because we have so few cars on the road that are even partially self-driving, let alone highly or fully self-driving. So it’s a little hard to ping consumers and poll them on this. They don’t have enough experience or reference points. They mostly have whatever they imagine in their head and that, of course, is not a reliable enough base to assess, to start to go out and measure. So I feel a little awkward right now about trying to figure out how long it will take. I don’t think it’s going to take as long as the doomsayers say, where it may take decades.From what we’ve seen in a lot of early tests with companies that are deploying self-driving cars they are always finding it surprising how fast the average consumer who is brought in for a test will get comfortable…sometimes surprisingly quickly. Sometimes inside of an hour, they’ll go from being nervous, to relaxing, to reading a book to taking a nap while in one of those cars. That gives an indication that it may not be such a high hill to climb.Q: The public is starting to get more familiar with specific areas of autonomous driving. How important is that step by step approach?Most of us are driving a car that has some autonomy in it. It may not look like it but if you have a car that does some self-parking…if you have adaptive cruise control, it’s not that uncommon. If you have a car that will vibrate or bring you back into your lane if you drift — all of these are found, even in rental cars in some cases today. When stitched together, those become tomorrow’s self-driving car. That means we’re planting the seeds of modular acceptance, which will become system acceptance later. That doesn’t minimize the fact that it’s still a big leap but the seeds are being sown.If you want to find an analogue in the history of technology, take a look at the smartphone. That was a pretty major device but it stood on the shoulders of behaviors that came before it. We knew what it did because of the personal computer, because of digital cameras, because of a portable navigation device we might have had. We were able to synthesize those modular experiences so — `Oh, I got it. That’s what a smartphone is. I’ll go spend the money and make the commitment.’Q: In thinking about how to generate widespread social acceptance, are there historical parallels you can find with other the adoption of other new technologies?Take a look at simple, plain cruise control that just holds your speed. That had a little bit of voodoo around it when it first arrived. A lot of people didn’t trust it. If you really want to go back a way, look at women driving. There was a time when a chauvinistic population at the time that didn’t really believe that was going to be safe on the road. So whether it’s technology or whether it’s social outlook, we’ve gone through some iterations already of pretty convulsive change in what we have faith in on the road. This is another one. It’s just the biggest one.Q: Is there technology already in the market that’s building trust or confidence between drivers and their vehicles?We have a lot of other technology avenues that I think can help teach the automotive category how to go through this new territory. Take a look at smartphones and take a look at wearables. Those are two areas now where we are really trying to raise the stakes of technology. To have your home and yourself recorded, monitored, gathered and made available to services that want to help you out. That’s exposing yourself; that’s some degree of risk; that’s some degree of inviting technology into what used to be an analogue safe zone where you pushed all the buttons yourself. I’m sure there are lessons there. Consumers are being asked to embrace a lot that involves trust right now.Part two of our series will be published next week. If you have questions for Brian, leave us a message in the comments and we’ll share them with him!For more stories, please visit our page on Medium.com, https://medium.com/drive-publication###

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Toyota Launches the New C-HR

by News Feeder, 02-11-2024, 04:36 AM

Toyota developed and launched the new C-HR at all Toyota, Toyopet, Toyota Corolla, and Nets dealers nationwide across Japan on December 14. The C-HR is also scheduled to be used as a management vehicle at the 93rd Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden (relay marathon) championship on January 2 and 3, 2017.

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