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The electrical taxi of Barcelona inaugurated Expoelèctric Formulate-and 2013

18/11/2013

18 November 2013

Sónia Recasens, second deputy mayor of the City council of Barcelona, presented for the first time to the citizenship the version taxi of the van and-NV200 that in the 2014 will circulate by the streets of the city. The presentation took place in the frame of the inauguration of Expoelèctric Formulates-and 2013, the appointment ineludible that annually Barcelona organises to approach the electrical mobility to the Barcelonan and Barcelonan.

Recasens Presented the new taxi 100% electrical and-NV200 during the past edition of the International Living room of the Car of Frankfurt beside the managerial maximum of Nissan, the president and CEO of the company, Carlos Ghosn, for being an event of international interest. Barcelona is the first city of the world in betting firmly for implanting the electrical vehicle like public transport and in the leader the global deployment of the new taxi 100% electrical and-NV200, version that also will enter in other big cities of the world.

The adviser general director of Nissan Iberia, Mark Bull, has celebrated “the commitment and bet of the city of Barcelona by the electrical vehicle”. Bull has added: “The presentation of the electrical taxi of Barcelona is an example of the results that can achieve with the conjoint work of the public and private sectors. Both parts have to create alliances to boost the sustainable mobility and work, like this, in profit of all the citizenship”.

Presentation of the taxi Nissan and-NV200 in Barcelona.

The electrical taxi and-NV200 form splits of a wider agreement signed between Nissan and the City council of Barcelona whose aim is to promote the use of electrical vehicles in the fields of the taxi and of the distribution of commodities. In this memorandum of understanding both parts engage to promote measures from his field of activity for the suitable introduction and implementation of the electrical vehicle.

Like this, for example, Nissan will develop the specific version of taxi and will support the city of Barcelona in the deployment of the infrastructure of load by means of the supply of equipment of fast load CHAdeMo. The loaders designed by Nissan can load any compatible vehicle with until 80% of battery in only 30 minutes. The City council of Barcelona, between other actions, will offer specific squares for taxi and for load and download of commodities and will install there points of load. Also it will consider the creation of zones and exclusive schedules of load and download for vehicles of zero broadcasts and the introduction of reductions impositivas, like the reduction of the tax of economic activities to the companies with fleets of electrical vehicles.

The plant of the Frank Zone in Barcelona will be the world-wide centre of the production of the new Nissan and-NV200, what means that the vehicles go to export to markets of all the world. For this, Nissan will invest 100 million euros and will create more than 700 new places of work. The manufacture of the and-NV200, the second vehicle 100% electrical of Nissan after the success achieved with the Nissan LEAF, will begin to manufacture from mediated of 2014.