YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japanese automaker Nissan tests a super green way, its leaf electric vehicle by solar energy, part of a wider drive to improve the electricity storage systems charge.
Nissan leaf went on sale late last year, but looking at about five years time when vehicles can offer alternative business opportunities in the use of its lithium-ion batteries as a store for current aging leaf is the automakers.
Nissan Motor Corp admits that, as soon as the page itself enforces, could result in a flood of used batteries, because the battery life is longer than an electric vehicle.
The power generation and storage attention in Japan are after 11 March earthquake and tsunami caused massive power outages in the North-East of the country. A nuclear power plant, which went into meltdown, Fukushima Dai-Ichi, after backup generators are destroyed by the tsunami also renewed fears of a crunch makes.
In the new system, has been shown the reporters Monday electricity is generated installed on the roof of the Nissan headquarters in Yokohama, Southwest by 488 solar cells from Tokyo.
Four batteries of the leaf were part of the building in a field in a cellar-like, and save the electricity from the solar cells, which is enough charge 1,800 vehicles per year, according to the Nissan leaf.
Although interest in renewable energy as grows solar and wind makes a great challenge is the storage of electricity, which remains expensive without a breakthrough in battery technology.
This interest is expected in Japan because of the fears about the safety of nuclear power is growing to keep. Hamaoka nuclear power plant because of such concerns is shut down, and more may follow.
The energy-efficient communities called "smart grids" work other Japanese automakers such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co., on similar projects such as the connection of hybrids with solar-equipped homes as part of.
Electric cars produce no pollution or global warming gases but don't have electricity, which produced mainly based on polluting oil or gas.
Even after a hand to be scrapped is ready, the battery will have 80 percent of its capacity. On the positive side, the hand with its high performance battery can the equivalent of two days of household electricity use Save, said Nissan.
"What is important for Nissan, solutions through EVS, show step by step", said Corporate Vice President Hideaki Watanabe.
A joint venture with Sumitomo Corp. called 4R Energy Corp. plans to power storage systems offer such as the Nissan headquarters for businesses and public institutions as a commercial product by 2016.
Nissan hopes to start selling such storage systems for regular homes by the fiscal year from April 2012. It will perform from December, field tests 4R energy President Takashi Sakagami said.
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