http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1087812_dreaming-of-a-nissan-leaf-with-double-the-range-well Dreaming Of A Nissan Leaf With Double The Range? Well... By Stephen Edelstein Oct 22, 2013
[image http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/nissan-leaf-ecoseries-prototype_100443630_l.jpg Nissan Leaf ECOseries prototype ] Do you wish your Nissan Leaf electric car had more range? Nissan has a solution, sort of. The Japanese car maker's Barcelona Technical Centre built a prototype Leaf with a 48-kilowatt-hour battery pack for a new type of motorsport called ECOseries, according to a report on InsideEVs. Unlike most racing series, the goal of ECOseries is to achieve maximum efficiency and fuel economy--not fast lap times. The series is open to any type of road-legal vehicle, and features both track and rally events. Each event is split into two disciplines. Efficiency rewards the fastest car that uses less than a predetermined amount of energy, while regularity rewards drivers who come closest to matching a preset lap or stage time. The latter discipline is similar to the regularity time-trial rallies that are already a popular form of amateur motorsport in some countries. Nissan entered three Leafs in the series. The third car had its 24-kWh lithium-ion battery pack doubled in size for one event, to better compete with a Mercedes-Benz A-Class E-Cell, which boasts a 36-kWh pack designed by Tesla Motors. The Mercedes won that event, and it's unclear what plans--if any--Nissan has for its experimental 48-kWh prototype. Nissan's interest in electric car racing is hardly in doubt, though. Nissan will campaign its [pih] ZEOD race-car prototype at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June 2014. It will be powered by an electric motor and 1.6-liter gasoline engine, and is built with the radical shape of the DeltaWing racer. The Nissan Leaf Nismo RC has also made the rounds at various auto shows and racetracks. That car wasn't built to compete in any specific series, but the Nismo RC does bring a bit of the old "Win On Sunday, Sell On Monday" magic to electric cars. Perhaps the ECOseries Leaf will do the same. [© Green Car Reports] http://insideevs.com/nissan-tests-48-kwh-leaf-at-ecoseries/ Nissan Tests Longer Range, 48-kWh LEAF at ECOseries by Mark Kane Oct 16, 2013 [images http://insideevs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/110448_1_5.jpg Nissan LEAF at ECOseries http://insideevs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/110453_1_5.jpg http://insideevs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/48-kwh-leaf.jpg One Of These LEAFs Are NOT Like The Others ] Nissan recently announced that its Barcelona Technical Centre employees attended a new concept in motorsport: ECOseries “which rewards efficiency and fuel economy rather than outright speed“. “ECOseries, which is based in Spain and combines track and road-rally events over the season, attracts entries from a wide variety of road cars. Aside from the Nissan team, there are cars from rival manufacturers including Peugeot, Toyota, Volkswagen, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz.” Events are open to all types of road vehicles and to anyone with a driving license. The races are split into two disciplines: efficiency (quickest vehicles win as long as it’s used less fuel than maximum consumption set in the rules for its class) and regularity (drivers decide on a lap time and then must be as close to target as possible). Alongside ICE cars, Nissan issued three LEAFs for the hour-long races at the track. There’s nothing newsworthy here until we see one sentence on a LEAF prototype equipped with 48-kWh battery pack. “In the EV category, the Nissan LEAFs and a Mercedes A-Class E-Cell have been fighting for outright honours. Although two of the team’s three LEAFs are essentially standard, a third was introduced as a mobile test lab, running in the series’ EV prototype category. For the final race, its battery pack was doubled in size to take battery performance to 48kWh and allowing it to perform on more equal terms with the 36kWh Mercedes.” Mercedes won in regularity discipline, but having a 48-kWh LEAF prototype may indicate that Nissan is thinking of increasing energy and range of future LEAF versions. 48 kWh is more than we’d expect to see in a production version, but this testing at least shows us that Nissan has thoughts of more capacity on its mind. We do wish that Nissan provided an image of where all this extra capacity fits in the LEAF, but sadly Nissan did not. 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