Le Mans 24 Hour

MAY

2014

Renault-Nissan Alliance Team

Nissan ZEOD RC drivers have a new set of buttons to push

GT Academy winners Wolfgang Reip and Lucas Ordóñez – plus three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama – have a totally new set of buttons to learn when they jump behind the wheel of the Nissan ZEOD RC.

While Reip and Ordóñez began their racing career pushing buttons on their PlayStation controllers, the talented racers have been learning the control systems on the Nissan ZEOD RC which will make its race debut at this year's Le Mans 24 Hours.

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Category: Sustainability
Under: zero-emission|Racing car|Race|Nissan ZEOD RC
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APR

2014

Renault-Nissan Alliance Team

Renault-Nissan Alliance electric vehicles on the race track at Le Mans and Formula E

Want to learn about how Renault and Nissan are advancing the state of the art in zero-emissions technology? Watch this video to learn about the Alliance’s electric racing plans for 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s oldest endurance race, and Formula E, the highest class of competition for pure electric vehicles.

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Under: Le Mans 24 Hour|Formula E|electric vehicles|Electric racing
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NOV

2013

Renault-Nissan Alliance Team

Nissan's BladeGlider to debut at Tokyo Motor Show

Nissan BladeGlider, debuting at the Tokyo Motor Show, is both the future direction of Nissan electric vehicles and an exploratory prototype of the Nissan ZEOD RC from the world’s leading EV manufacturer.

The project, led by Francois Bancon, division general manager of Product Strategy and Product Planning at Nissan, has developed a deltoid-shape vehicle with a narrow front track that challenges the orthodoxy that has dominated the roads since the earliest days of the internal combustion engine.

“The goal was to revolutionize the architecture of the vehicle to provoke new emotions, provide new value and make visible for consumers how Zero Emissions can help redefine our conception of vehicle basics,” said Bancon.

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