[Paul_Moxhay]

I wonder what happened to this company?

Nissan Qashqai Electric Conversion: The Struggle Of The Electric Startup

 

[Lee Dalton]

Sounds like a Pretty perilous business model, spending a fortune on product development, then living hand to mouth with single conversions..... Neat concept though.

 

[Paul]

Sounds like a Pretty perilous business model, spending a fortune on product development, then living hand to mouth with single conversions..... Neat concept though.

Seems a really hard way to go about things, but I applaud the concept and effort that seems to have gone in to this.

 

[Mike Schooling]

Arent these the ones that caught fire on a ferry?

 

[Paul]

According to the article, yes.

 

[Mike Schooling]

Ah, scanned it and missed it! I think I read somewhere that these got electric cars banned from ferries in Norway for a couple of years! Apparently the BMS was to blame.

 

[Edd Beesley]

Hopefully at some point Nissan will wake up and realise the Qashqai is their most popular model in Europe, and would probably get lots of sales as an EV.

 

[Paul]

Hopefully at some point Nissan will wake up and realise the Qashqai is their most popular model in Europe, and would probably get lots of sales as an EV.

I get the feeling at this stage it would only sell well as a PHEV and Nissan don't seem to be going that route any time soon.

 

[Paul_Moxhay]

I was talking to my local friendly Nissan salesman earlier this week when ordering up my Qashqai and he was saying that he heard a rumour that they might be doing something with the X-Trail rather than the Qashqai. No idea if that has any truth to it... nor does he!!!