Friday, April 22, 2011

Leaf RC Nismo Nissan Motor Show New York

After the previews a few days ago about some technical details, at the New York Motor Show 2011 (April 21-May 1), Nissan will formally submitted Leaf Nismo RC (Racing Competition), an innovative racing car equipped with 100% electric traction. During the press day of the Nissan event held at the American, Carlos Tavares, Nissan's president of America, talking about the Nismo RC said: "The Nissan Nismo Leaf Rc is a kind of mobile laboratory with which to accelerate the development of EVs and aerodynamic systems.

But it is also the research platform for a green future range of motor racing. " Despite sharing its name with the now famous Japanese electric car, sold in many states of the world (but not in Italy), the Leaf Nismo RC car is a completely new, designed and built by specialists Nismo Racing Team, which are succeeded in creating a fireball right to run between the curbs of a track, without a gram of CO2.

Featuring a special two-tone pearl white and blue livery, this car visually track shares with the Leaf series only the shape of the headlights and logo placed under the rear wing. Designed by Nissan Design Center in Japan, the electric sports car than its Japanese counterpart road is longer than 2 cm, but one step short of 10, is larger than 17 cm and 35 cm lower, while the total weight fell as much as 40% to 938 kg quota.

Nissan Nismo RC Leaf was designed as a race car itself, from its carbon-fiber monocoque body, separates into three pieces. The removable front and rear, large rear wing is adjustable by the pilot in an electronic manner, as the windows are fixed on all cars in competition, while the front and rear lights utilize LED technology.

Obviously the mechanical arrangement was designed to offer the best feeling for track use: the electric motor and battery pack are installed in a central position, while the rear traction. The suspension front and rear double wishbone type, allowing a precise adjustment of the brake balance, while the circles was chosen for a set of Nismo 18 inch combined with high performance tires P225/40R18.

The pattern of propulsive Leaf RC is formed by a synchronous AC motor capable of developing 80 kW (108 hp) and 280 Nm of torque, powered by lithium-ion battery with 48 compact modules. If you use the fast setting is located under the body to recharge the batteries in only 80% in just 30 minutes.

In the first test, Leaf RC Nismo time showed highly significant: the step 0 to 100 km / h is covered in just 6.85 seconds, while the maximum speed is 150 km / h, with autonomy in ' track use of 20 minutes.

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