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August 31, 2009

Nissan plant using methanol to cut costs

  • The company will use methanol fuel cells on vehicles used to haul parts to assembly lines.
    • By BILL POOVEY
    Associated Press Writer

    SMYRNA, Tenn. — In another cost-cutting move that also makes its car and truck production a little greener, Nissan North America said it will use methanol fuel cells on some vehicles used to haul parts to assembly lines, starting at its plant in central Tennessee.

    Executives at the plant near Nashville and the CEO of methanol fuel cell provider Oorja Protonics of Fremont, Calif., said Nissan was the first automaker to make a commercial switch to the power cells that convert chemical energy in methanol into electrical energy without any combustion.


     
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