[Nissan Press Release]

A world premiere of a futuristic concept car and of an all-new production car, as well as a heavily revised version of an existing model will be the stars of Nissan’s 2008 Paris Motor Show.

All the stars of the show share a philosophy of tackling the reality of mobility in and around the city, today, tomorrow and in the more distant future.
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[Nissan Press Release]
Photos courtesy of Nissan

TOKYO (Sept. 4, 2008) - Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced the launch of a new clean diesel X-TRAIL “20GT,” which goes on sale September 18 at Nissan dealers nationwide. The new X-TRAIL 20GT has met Japan’s stringent “Post New Long-term Regulations”(1) – the first vehicle in the world to do so(2).

SHIFT_challenging spirit.
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Nissan’s “Nissan Green Program 2010″ seeks out eco-friendly technologies to develop products and services that cut CO2 emissions, produce clean emissions and recycle resources. As part of this program Nissan has been developing technologies for Fuel Cell vehicles. As reported a while ago, Nissan’s XTrail Fuel Cell Vehicle set the world’s first speed record on the Nurburging track for a Fuel Cell Vehicle. It was slow, but it proved the point that Fuel Cell Vehicles can race around a track. With Nissan’s current success at having developed a fuel cell stack that doubles the power output compared to the previous generation, we may see a Fuel Cell Vehicle doing lap times closer to that achieved by the GT-R. Well maybe not in the near future, but one day at least. What’s also notable about this next generation Fuel Cell Stack is that it cuts down 35% of the cost of production. It does this by using less Platinum, an integral part of a Fuel Cell Stack. This is important as one of the drawbacks of alternative fuel vehicles is cost. Hybrids are still quite expensive and even more so are other technologies.
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