Nissan to Launch 'Greener' Cars

Nissan has announced that they will be launching a number of differnt environmentally-friendlier cars such as cars with continuously variable transmission (CVT), which emit up to 10% less greenhouse emissions than automatic transmission, by the end of the 2007/2008 business year; cleaner diesel engines with a parternship with Renault; bio-ethanol fueled cars in Brazil by 2009; hybrids by 2010; and an electric car and a next-generation fuel cell vehicle shortly after 2010.

Nissan also announced that they are planning to cut CO2 emissions from their manufacturing plants 7% (when compared to 2005 levels) by 2010.