Nissan to Add Fuel-Efficiency Meters to all Future Models
21/08/2007 06:00
TOKYO, August 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Nissan Motor Co. announced today that it will phase in fuel-efficiency
meters on all new models to promote awareness of more economical driving
habits. The move is part of the company's overall efforts to launch a wide
range of environmental technologies under its mid-term environmental action
plan: Nissan Green Program 2010. This new feature will also be introduced on
existing models to coincide with the timing of minor model changes(1).
Showing instant fuel-efficiency and average efficiency, the meters help
make drivers more conscious of fuel-efficiency and the direct consequences
that their driving styles have on a vehicles fuel-economy. In Nissan
conducted in-house tests, the introduction of these meters lead to a fuel
economy improvement of approximately 10%(2).
Until now, Nissan has offered navigation systems which show both instant
and average fuel-efficiency. By placing these meters in the main instrument
cluster, the company hopes to improve the effectiveness of these simple
devices to raise driver awareness on eco-driving habits.
Under the Nissan Green Program 2010, the company added a new feature to
its CARWINGS information service to support greener driving habits(3) in
January.
(1) Currently on the SKYLINE, LAFESTA, ATLAS in Japan, and ALTIMA,
INFINITI G35 in the U.S
(2) Average of results obtained through in-house observations; figures
vary by driving style.
(3) Services include listing the average fuel-efficiency of CARWINGS
members on the CARWINGS Website in the form of monthly rankings, and weekly
Web advice about green driving techniques
For more information, contact:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Communications CSR Department
Global Communications CSR and IR Division
Tel:+81-(0)3-5565-2141
http://press.nissan-global.com/EN
For more information, contact: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Communications CSR Department, Global Communications CSR and IR Division, Tel:+81-(0)3-5565-2141, http://press.nissan-global.com/EN