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The Nissan Qashqai as an Electric Taxi With Switchable Batteries in a Japan Debut

By Andis Kaulins

Remember the August 2009 LawPundit posting where we suggested to Standardize Electric Car Batteries so that Drivers can quickly exchange Battery Units at Charging Stations rather than charge a Car's Own Batteries?

Denise Ngo reports at Popular Science that
Electric Taxis With Switchable Batteries Debut in Japan



The car you see above in a photo linked from Popular Science is a Nissan Qashqai, a car designed in the UK, but not available for sale in the USA (probably because it is yet too small for the American size-addicted market).The crossover Qashqai is surely one of the best cars for the money on the market today and obtained the best ever EuroNCAP crash test rating when tested in 2007. No wonder they are using the Qashqai as the taxi for this debut.

Full post as published by LawPundit on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).