As part of its mid-term environmental strategy — “Nissan Green Program 2010″ — the Nissan Motor Co. will be launching a next-generation fuel cell vehicle early 2010s in Japan and North America.
From the fiscal year 2010, the company will be introducing gasoline engine technologies in the global market with the goal not only to enhance fuel economy, but also reduce emissions — of green house gases, especially, carbon dioxide — equivalent to the levels of that of diesel engine at the same time as fuel cell vehicles run on the power produced by the combination of atmospheric oxygen with hydrogen stored in the fuel tank. It produces only harmless water vapor as emission.
Mitsuhiko Yamashita, Nissan’s executive vice president for research and development in a statement said,
To develop vehicles that are truly environmentally friendly, we need to make significant advances in internal combustion technology while working on electrical power sources in parallel.
