Nissan Motor develops the hybrid technology for the medium or small sized car, installs in the mini-van etc. , and sells it domestically in around 2011.

The hybrid vehicle of Toyota Motor and Honda is popular in the background of the merchandising and the price cutting of the government such as reduction of taxes, and Nissan rebuts and installs it in fleet cars though locates the electric car to the favorite in the environmental correspondence car.
It becomes a structural outline into which three major companies crash in the domestic market, and it seems to gain momentum the market growth.

The system that develops is supposed to become the method of the small size and low cost to assist the engine that always moves with the motor as well as Honda.
Expectation that fuel cost performance rises by about 5-60 percent by battery's using small, efficient lithium-ion battery compared with gasoline-powered vehicle.

The source
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/main/20090717AT1D140AH16072009.html

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