With gasoline-electric cars paving the way for a cleaner environment and becoming not only an obvious but necessary motivation for sales in automobiles, Nissan is determined to implement hybrids into its high-end cars and give the little guy hybrids a run for the money.
Nissan’s approach to mounting the hybrid on an Infiniti diverges from the top two leading hybrid manufacturers, Toyota and Honda, but wouldn’t that be expected? Typically, RWD cars and trucks don’t provide the great mileage front-wheel-drive vehicles. By adapting them to a hybrid system should bring pronounced fuel economy improvements.
The automaker hopes to introduce its first hybrid system to the Infiniti line and have the first rear-wheel-drive car to make the change by the year 2010 (of course).
Nissan’s first hybrid car is an adaptation of the front-wheel-drive Nissan Altima sedan introduced in 2008 but the system uses rival Toyota’s hybrid Synergy drive system.
Our take? Cool eco-cruising Infiniti!