Renault-Nissan Alliance Enters ZEV Partnership With California's Sonoma County
By Scott Doggett November 25, 2008
Nissan North America and California's Sonoma County
have partnered to develop electric-vehicle charging stations and standards.
The announcement late last week was the second partnership unveiled by the Renault-Nissan Alliance within days and was the seventh that the company had established in an effort to prepare the market and consumers for a transition to plug-in electric vehicles and plug-in electric hybrids.
Nissan believes it is critical to develop standards and to build a recharging infrastructure to support electric vehicles as Japan's No. 3 automaker introduces the vehicles to consumers.
Nissan has announced plans to introduce zero-emission vehicles in the United States and Japan in 2010 and intends to make them available to the mass market two years later.
The partnership with Sonoma, a Northern California county famous for its wines located 30 miles north of San Franciso, also includes agreements with eight cities within the county. Nissan said it plans to supply electric vehicles to the county as it works with the communities to develop plans for the creation of an EV battery-charging network.
Earlier last week, Nissan announced a similar partnership with the state of Oregon and Portland General Electric, a utility company.
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