Archive for December, 2008

Tien Duong, DOE, on Lithium-ion batteries

Tien Duong, Department of Energy, USA, opened the 1st International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automobile Applications at the Argonne National Laboratory, September 15-17, 2008.
Duong was good enough to [...]

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2009 Nissan 370Z Pricing

From Nissan:
BASE VEHICLE
370Z Coupe 3.7 Liter V6 6speed manual $29,930
370Z Coupe 3.7 Liter V6 7 speed automatic $31,230
370Z Coupe Touring 3.7 Liter V6 6speed manual $34,460
370Z Coupe Touring 3.7 Liter [...]

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Nissan builds the last US Z-car in 1996

From 1970-1996, from the 240Z to the 300ZX, Nissan commemorates the Z-car with footage of the last Z-car being built for the United States.
The Datsun Z-car is known as the [...]

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Nissan/Datsun 300ZX 1984 & Paul Newman

Can you spot the two times Datsun is used? That’s right, Nissan is slowly changing over in their commercials from Datsun to Nissan.
How did Nissan celebrate their 50th anniversary? By [...]

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Datsun 1979 280ZX & Steve Wozniak

Do you remember Apple’s first geek, Inventor Steve Wozniak? Do you remember Wozniak doing a commercial for the Datsun 280ZX? Neither did I, but there he is, bearded and young [...]

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Datsun 1974 260Z & Datsun 1975 280Z

How can you forget the commercial slogan “We are driven”. It’s here in all its glory.
The ’70s almost meant speed and to auto enthusiasts that meant horsepower. 1974 saw the [...]

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Datsun 240Z 1969-1973

Looking for some laughs? Nissan had this old footage that they brought out and they’re letting me share it with you.
Wouldn’t you love to buy a brand new car that [...]

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Sander Kuiken, VW, gasoline vs. diesel

Sander Kuiken, Technical development diesel application, Volkswagen AG talked to me about clean diesel and the difference between the VW Touareg diesel and gasoline vehicles.
1. Why does diesel get better [...]

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Honda and the hydrogen highway

Stephen Ellis, Manager of Fuel Cell Marketing for American Honda Motor Company sat down for a chat with me at the 2008 Los Angeles auto show.
Ellis had missed part of [...]

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2009 VW Touareg TDI is a clean diesel

Gunther Schiele, TDI Development, Volkswagen AG, talked to us about the NOX reduction system being used in the 2009 Volkswagen Touareg. This is a different system than the NOX storage [...]

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