Nissan plans electric cars in Portugal

TOKYO (AP) - Automakers Nissan and Renault will sell electric vehicles in Portugal in 2011 and the allied companies have partnered with the government in an attempt to create a national network of charging stations. Masahiko Ohtsuka, president of Automotive Energy Supply Corp., a joint venture between Nissan Motor Co. and Japanese electronics maker NEC Corp. , shows their newly produced lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, hybrids and fuel cells during an interview with the Associated Press reporter at Nissan head office in Tokyo, Wednesday, July 9, 2008. Otsuka said the plant running next year will be more extensively automated than rival plants. (A... Nissan has said it will sell electric cars globally in 2012, but the technology is still being developed. On Wednesday, Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of the French and... [read full story]