Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Nissan unveils ESFLOW electric sports car concept; 0-60 in 5 seconds

Nissan’s new Leaf plug-in electric vehicle may be the way to capture the minds of American consumers wary about EVs, but its new ESFLOW electric sports car concept dares to capture our hearts.
The Japanese automaker announced the vehicle on Thursday, promising an “environmentally sympathetic” vehicle without risking “the joy of driving.”
Put the pedal to the metal, if you ask me.
As such, the ESFLOW concept takes the powertrain components from the Leaf — an electric motor that drives each powered wheel hooked up to laminated lithium-ion batteries — and marries them to an aluminum chassis built for performance, in the form of a 0 to 60 m.p.h. time of less than five seconds.
The range, you ask? About 150 miles per charge.