Nissan delivers first ten Leafs in Portugal

Tweet this post Nissan is delivering this Wednesday in Lisbon the first ten Leafs in Portugal. Nine electric vehicles will be delivered to the consortium behind the national mobility program, the Mobi.e, formed by companies like Siemens, EDP, Critical Software, Efacec and Martifer, among others. The Portuguese Government will also get a Nissan Leaf to be used by the Prime-Minister José Sócrates on official acts. Sócrates is attending the cerimony.

Renault-Nissan is not an official partner listed by Mobi.e, also run by Novabase, INTELI, Rener Living Lab, CEIIA and Remobi, but is working with the Portuguese consortium on the development of a nationwide mobility network. Some 1.300 plug-in charging stations are expected to go online in Portugal until June 2011. The country has been chosen both by Renault and Nissan for extensive experimentation with electric vehicles over the last years.

The Mobi.e mobility concept has already been exported to Malta and Portugal is in talks with other countries to develop mobility networks based on the Portuguese, open model of business, national EV project.

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High school kids win prize with electric roller blades project

Laziness is the mother of all invention. A teenager's reluctance to walk to school every morning has earned three kids from Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, the DESAFIO.E award.

David Brandão, João Nogueira and Pedro Teixeira won a trip to Nissan's Design Centre in London for their electric roller blades concept. The Skeelz have an estimated autonomy of 20 to 30 kms and are powered by a small electric battery located in a backpack. The product is to be patented soon, Mobi.e's website announced.

The DESAFIO.E award is given by Porto's CEIIA (Centre for Excellence and Innovation in the Automotive Industry) to the most innovative high school project involving electric mobility in Portugal.

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Portugal starts production of the Mobicar

Portugal's 100% electric Mobicar (no relation to this blog's name) will start to be assembled in 2011 and will roll out on to the steets in 2012, with local media reporting a final tag price of 9.000 euros (12.000 dollars), yet to be confirmed.

With an autonomy of 120 km (74 miles) and a top speed of 100 kmph (62 mph), the three-seater compact vehicle is being developed at the CEIIA (Centre for Excellence and Innovation in the Automotive Industry) in Porto, in collaboration with Spain's CTAG, among 70 other entities, companies and universities. Initial production is limited to 350 test units. For 2012, 6250 Mobicars are expected to roll out the Vendas Novas Isuzu plant.

Portugal already has over 100 charging stations and will get a further 1200 plug-in stations until December 2011, in a project led by Mobi.e. The network, with an open business model, allows any consumer the access to any provider of electricity in any charging point explored by any service operator. The country exempts EVs from most taxes.

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