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2,800 Nissan employees started their first day of work on August 19 at the company’s new headquarters in Yokohama’s Minato Mirai district.
It’s been 41 years since Nissan was last headquartered in Yokohama, the place of its birth. The company plans to sell the building that housed its previous headquarters in Tokyo’s Ginza district. The company also relocated its showroom to the new HQ.
Auto sales in India rose 24.7 percent in July from the year before to 185,266 vehicles as stimulus measures, rural demand lower interest rates gave sales a surprise boost, figured released recently in Mumbai showed.
Car sales rose 30.9 percent to 115,067 units, while commercial vehicle sales reversed their long slide, rising 9 percent to 37,624 vehicles. Sales of passenger utility vehicles and vans rose 23.4 percent to 32,575.
Ford said recently that its future electric cars will “that” to power grids across America, part of an effort to drive interest in alternative energy vehicles.
Ford released details of a two-year collaboration with about a dozen utility companies as well as the Department of Energy on the design of a system that allows car owners to control when they charge vehicles and for how long. Owners can choose to recharge at off-peak times when electricity is cheaper, or when wind, solar or renewable energy is driving the grid.
Ford and the utility companies are testing the system and have logged 75,000 miles on a test fleet. The goal is to have a network in place so drivers can recharge their cars at preset times at home, work or elsewhere. The system aims to develop technical standards so that a car purchased and used in Michigan, can “talk” to an electric grid in New York if the driver moves or travels.
Ford’s first battery electric vehicle, the Transit Connect commercial van, will be available next year. A battery electric Ford Focus compact car will go on sale in 2011.
Automakers, supermarket chains, parking lot operators and even home builders in Japan are leading a nationwide rush to install super-fast charging stations for electric cars in anticipation of a boom in the eco-friendly vehicles in Japan. Nissan said the company planned to install a charger or special electric outlet at every one of its sales offices in Japan.
Quick chargers can restore on electric car to about 80% of its capacity in 15 to 30 minutes.
Supermarket chain operator Aeon installed a charger at its store in Koshigaya, Saitama prefecture, in October.
The Metropolitan Expressway Co. has also installed four quick chargers. Since the end of last year, park 24 Co., a parking lot operator, has installed electric outlets at 21 locations in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
All three companies allow drivers to recharge their electric cars for free. In April, home builder Eyeful Home began selling units that have 200-volt outlets already installed in the garage. Plugging into the outlets at night will allow drivers to recharge their electric cars rates apply.
The central &local governments in Japan also offer subsidies for the installation of quick chargers, which cost about 3.5 million yen per unit. Some gasoline companies are also installing quick chargers at their stands on an experimental basis. But if they start to impose a fee, it is expected most drivers would charge their cars at home instead, except in emergencies or on long-haul trips.
Japan’s exports of used construction machinery including truck cranes, lifters, bulldozers, shovel loaders, excavators and tractors totaled 79,921 units in 2008, down 9.3 percent from previous year’s export of 88,156 units.
Used construction machinery exports in the first two months of 2009 totaled 7,252 units. Hong Kong remains the No. 1 destination for Japan’s export of used construction machinery. However, most of these units are re-exported to mainland China.
Japan’s 20 major destinations for export of used constriction machinery in 2008:
