What makes the Nissan Super Motor super is two independently operating power shafts using one set of magnet in one housing.
EV World reports that all systems are “go”, for 2009, that is.
Executive Vice President Mitsuhiko Yamashita, has stated that Nissan’s Super Motor, lithium ion batteries and inverters may be ready for use by 2009. All components could find application in vehicles that run on fuel cells, gasoline-electric hybrid engines or electricity.
Nissan displayed all of the aforementioned components in the Pivo, a concept car that made a splash at the 2006 Tokyo Motor Show. The Super Motor first appeard at the 2003 Tokyo Motor Show. Nissan had shown it in its X-Trail fuel cell vehicle (FCV) prototype and the Effis FCV commuter car concept. A Nissan city car similar to the Effis BEV comprised one set of vehicles used when the Shared Station Car Program was tested in Japan.
Nissan CVT
The Bloomberg story that Bill Moore relayed omitted mentioned of another advanced component important to electric drives; Nissan makes a highly-regarded CVT.
Nissan is responsible for a segment of all low emission vehicles now on Japanese highways.
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Nissan has manufactured an internal combustion engine, which won acclaim by American reviewers of Ward’s Auto World ten years in a row, the only engine to do so. Thus, the reluctance of Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn to avoid the path taken by Toyota and Honda Motor Co. in making hybrid vehicles, is somewhat understandable.
Now “seeing the success of Toyota’s Prius and Honda’s Insight models and prompted by the need to meet U.S. fuel economy standards,” reports Bloomberg (Tiny URL), “Tokyo-based Nissan will unveil a gas-electric Altima sedan later this year, using Toyota parts.”