Nissan Leaf Car

Nissan Leaf Car
Electric cars will soon enter the commercial market. One of them is Nissan Leaf. This car was planned to go on sale in the United States at the end of this year.

Mileage
Mileage on a single battery is 160 km. This result is the first capability offered by Nissan for prospective customers. Based on the survey, it’s ability to meet 95 percent of the daily vehicle in the United States. In Indonesia, the condition is of course not much different!

Then what about price? According to Nissan, the price is already included Leaf pack li-ion battery similar to the sedan in the segment with features. Sedan segment is the Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Chevrolet Cruze, and Ford Focus. In Indonesia, the price on the USD 325 million-USD 375 million. Leaf itself into the segment C. Therefore, naturally have a lot of Leaf ordered from now.

Nissan strategy indirectly menyosor individual consumers. Rental cars are also targeted. With this, consumers do not have to have it directly, but can be hired to determine the ability of this electric vehicle first.

Price battery itself has not announced by Nissan. However, Leaf will be produced according to plan as many as 50,000 units in its factory in Japan and will be marketed throughout the world. For the battery, the capacity of its factory in Japan is 65,000 units per year. Battery plant will be built in the United States in 2011 with production of 200,000 sets of batteries per year. Battery plant will be built in the UK and Portugal.

Capabilities
The distance resulting from the battery is 160 km at the contents. This is in accordance with the method of driving in the city of EPA standards, the United States. The car slid under a 150 speed or the highest speed kpj Leaf. These results do not include the operation of the mode “ECO” is expected to extend the mileage 15-20 percent. In addition, there is also a model “running out of juice” that makes the car will reduce energy use, including for operational accessories.

What if the battery suddenly ran out and depots do not exist? “Before you run out, drivers were given warnings, such as conventional cars when gas is thin,” said Mark Perry, Director of Product Planning Nissan America.

According to plan, Nissan will also work with AAA to the special charger and will charge the battery in a few minutes. That way, the car can move on to the public depots. Hence also, the car is equipped with navigation systems that can show the public depots nearest electricity!

Battery life
The next question, how old battery li-ion? Based on the laws in California, age must be 10 years or 240,000 km warranty. The federal guarantee of just 8 years or 128,000 km. According to Perry, the first-generation battery pack will only have the ability to use 70-80 percent after 10 years.

The batteries used are li-ion with high density lining plus cathode made of manganese oxide. This battery has a low internal resistance with good heat stability. Leaf battery developed by Nissan with NEC, which is also the name of Automotive Energy Supply Corp. (AESC).

Battery pack weight is 218 kg and has included the control module. The total capacity is 24kWh, with 140W-h/kg cell energy density. The cell weight of about 171 kg. Meanwhile, the electric motor mounted on the ability transaksel with 80 kW and 280 Nm of torque.

However, heavy vehicles have not been announced. The Leaf axle distance is 2700 mm and 4445 mm long.

Old charging
Charging the car battery charger with two connectors. One for electricity in the house with the minimum voltage 200 volts, and the second for fast charging. Charging time at home is 6-8 hours. When using a special charger, charging for 30 minutes was able to fill 80 percent of the battery.

When plugged into the outlet, the car IT system can be programmed via cell phone. The system included to set the conditions of passenger space, activate the heater temperature, and air conditioning systems.

Like hybrid cars, Leaf designed using a component aimed at mengirit fuels, including tires with low rolling resistance. However, for the body, resistance (cd) Leaf higher than the Prius, with a ratio of 0.25 and 0.29

Like a wind of heaven, Nissan will continue the next electric vehicle projects, plus a small commercial version of the Infiniti luxury.

Chevrolet Cruze Engine Car

Chevrolet Cruze Engine Car
Chevrolet Cruze engine provides 4 options. Gasoline four-cylinder 1600 cc and 1800 cc with Double Variable Valve Timing Continuosly Technology (DCVVTT) – Double Continuous Variable Cam phasing (DCVCP); 1400 cc four-cylinder petrol with petrol turbocharged four-cylinder 2400 cc with Variable Valve Timing and Direct Injection Technology – Direct Injection Spark Ignition (Sidi) and 2000 cc turbocharged with Common Rail Diesel Injection Technology.

However, from the four choices GMAI machine will first introduce and market the Chevrolet Cruze in Indonesia with a choice of petrol engines with a capacity of 1800 cc choice of five-speed manual transmission and a six-speed automatic.

With all the advantages Cruze in particular are not owned by a competitor in its class such as Double Continuous Variable Cam phasing (DCVCP), Cruise Control, ESP (Electronic Stability Program), Traction Control, six-speed automatic transmission, display Infortainment, Rain Sensor, Automatic Headlamp with Tunnel Detection, Follow Me Home and Welcome Light) and many more. GMAI optimistic Chevrolet Cruze will be well received by the market.

Chevrolet Cruze has a safety test of 5 stars (Crash Test) from EURO NCAP, Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP), 5 stars from the Chinese New Car Assessment Program (C-NCAP) and the Korean New Car Assessment Program (KNCAP).

Cruze sales achievements throughout the world have fantastic figures incised in the mid-class sedan that is, 128,485 units, up to December 2009. Chevy Cruze dibandrol began USD 309 million for the lowest variant.

Chevrolet Cruze

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Chevrolet Cruze

Chevrolet Cruze, will be officially launched next March 15. This product includes security features and additional comfort, the glass film Perfections Security Bullet Resistance Film.

This glass layer according to the release that was sent GMAI able to change the direction of the bullet when fired into the glass. With this addition, Cruze will be a safer car for drivers and passengers, for example, from vandalism in the street disturbance.

Security Perfections Bullet Resistance Film thickness 8 mm and integrated with solar control coating that serves to reject the hot 99.0 percent (IR rejection) and 99.9 percent (UV control).

The use of glass layer does not affect visibility. Therefore, the driver remains safe Cruze raced at night. With the glass layer, the temperature inside the cabin is also maintained, for example, cooler during the day. Work became more efficient air conditioner. In addition, endurance nice interior materials.

Chevrolet Cruze

Chevrolet Cruze

Sedan is planned to be offered in three engine options, ie, 1600 cc, 1800 cc and 2000 cc.

This car is known as the Daewoo Lacetti Primiere. The Cruze labels used in Australia. The price of Rp 300 million and Rp 350 million.

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New Astra to Become a Buick? Managing Brand Isn’t Getting Any Easier

DETROIT – Our European correspondent, Paul Horrell calls the 2010 Opel Astra “one of the best compact hatches the world has to offer.” His story asks; will it come here? The answer is “yes,” in a way. Buick’s 2012 Cruze-based compact (on the Delta platform), designed to anchor the lower end of its New GM lineup, will wear the sheetmetal of the notchback sedan version of the Astra, a source close to matter tells me. I don’t know what it will be called. We haven’t seen the conventional sedan version of the new Astra yet. We can guess it will be very similar to the hatchback, retaining its “sweeping” look, with the sculpted blade in the bodyside and the strong shoulders.The new Astra hatchback’s wheelbase is three inches longer than the old Astra’s, and it’s 174 inches overall, though the version with the trunk may be closer to the Cruze’s 181-inch overall length. The old Opel/Vauxhall Astra hatchback served as the Saturn Astra, a model that sold so poorly here that Saturn didn’t import any for the 2009 model year. While Saturn was designated as GM’s import-fighter, and thus was briefly the portal for Opel designs, that brand now is headed for Penske Automotive. Anyway, GM recognized that the Opel Insignia’s design and the premium level of its interior better fit its intended direction for Buick. GM wants to return both Opel and Buick to their old positions as sub-luxury premium brands. It’s similar, but not the same as Ford Motor Company’s Mercury division, which is about to transform from badge-engineered Fords to European models. Does the new Opel Astra fit? Horrell reports the car “derives much of its upscale feel and design from the Insignia.” I don’t know whether the Buick version will get the Astra’s suspension upgrades over the Chevrolet Cruze, but it should. The Opel’s front suspension has supplementary rebound springs to take the load off the front anti-roll bar, and reduce understeer, and a Watts linkage supplements the torsion beam rear axle for better axle articulation than from a cheaper Panhard rod. “This design allows the bushings that take the lateral loads to be separated from those that take the longitudinal,” Horrell explains. “The former are stiff — for handling finesse — while the latter are soft for ride comfort.”Opels are tuned typically for European roads, which means the new Astra’s suspension may prove too stiff for a traditional Buick ride. We’ll have to wait and see whether GM engineers will even try to get the right compromise from this setup. If GM is serious about revitalizing the core differences between Chevy, Buick, GMC and Cadillac models, though, it had better figure out a way to make the Buick compact different from the Chevy Cruze beneath the skin.I’m not quite as confident about GM’s announcement at the Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, Michigan, that Buick will have an also-unnamed 2012 plug-in hybrid model in showrooms in ’11. The compact crossover, which makes its debut next year as an ’11 model with conventional engines, is the current Saturn Vue with some new sheetmetal. GM engineers were hard at work to introduce the plug-in hybrid powertrain for that model when the company gave up on the brand. The gas engines will be the direct-injection 2.4-liter four and 3.0-liter V-6 now proliferating through GM’s small and midsize lineup, and the plug-in hybrid will feature LG Chem lithium ion batteries and the 3.6-liter gas direct-injection V-6.I have no argument against Buick getting a plug-in hybrid. In fact, it probably can better absorb the system’s cost with a higher price than GM could charge for a Chevy or GMC model. The problem is that the rest of GM has moved on, with the 2010 Chevy Equinox and GMC Terrain (replacing the Pontiac Torrent) reviewed as being far superior to their predecessors. The Saturn Vue/new Buick is another version of those predecessors. These days, though, GM can’t afford to throw away any well-developed technology. Technologies being developed for eight brands must find their way into the surviving four. And the plug-in Vue was well on its way. Perhaps the Buick crossover should be sold as plug-in only. This Buick will share showrooms with the dynamically superior (though design-challenged) GMC Terrain. And with Buick’s own Enclave. That large crossover re-established the Buick brand as a legitimate premium nameplate. Let’s hope the new smaller crossover and the Astra-based compact don’t damage the progress the Enclave has made.
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