Nissan and the state of Tennessee are collaborating in a venture that will make ultra-clean electric cars and zero-emission vehicles more viable alternatives for buyers. Under the agreement, charging stations for plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles, such as Nissan’s own electric car based on the Cube and due out in 2012.
This represents the fourth such agreement Nissan has made thus far, meant to encourage customers to buy electric vehicles. Under the deal, the state would help install charging stations in central Tennessee, centering around Nashville, says a Detroit News report.
Nissan concluded similar talks with Portugal that will have the country’s government study ways to set up a national charging station network by 2011, when Nissan will sell its electric car there. Nearly identical deals were made with Renault-branded electric vehicles in Israel and Denmark.
The automaker has not revealed the exact model of car it will sell in an electric layout, but does expect to launch the car in a limited run of a few hundred models in 2010, growing to thousands in 2011 and tens of thousands by 2012.
