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The Electric Car Battery Battle

By the way if you want to hear Carlos Ghosn's comments about Peak Oil and how Nissan is "preparing for the worst"...

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The Electric Car Battery Battle

Jim - great article. “If the people will lead,” somebody once said, “leaders will follow.” Nowhere has that been more true than in the U.S. auto market. CEO Carlos Ghosn seems intent on verifying this truth when he explained why his company now aims to be the first to bring an electric vehicle to U.S. auto showrooms: “What we are seeing is that the shifts coming from the markets are more powerful than what regulators are doing…”

As recently as 2005, Ghosn called battery-powered cars “niche products.”