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Nissan Will Provide “Clean Diesel” Vehicles for G-8 Summit in Toyako

by BBelew57 on June 14th, 2008

Nissan Motor Co Ltd will be providing their X-TRAIL "Clean diesel" vehicle for a test drive at the Environmental Showcase during the Hokkaido G-8 Toyako Summit.

The clean diesel has already been released in Europe and will be available in Japan in the fall of 2009.

Confusion starts now -

"The clean diesel X-TRAIL released in Europe in 2007 has a piezoelectric-controlled injector with an injection pressure increased to 160MPa, a variable nozzle turbo and a diesel particulate filter (DPF).

In addition to these systems, an NOx storage-reduction catalyst and a high-precision engine control mechanism are employed for the Japanese diesel model.

To maximize the capability for post-processing, the EGR valve, the electronically-controlled throttle valve, the commonrail system and the variable nozzle turbo are operated in concert with one another, thereby controlling the air-fuel ratio in a highly accurate way."

 I admit…I don't know what any of that means. But, I do understand the words 'clean' and 'diesel' and 'Nissan.'

Japanese know cars, know efficiency, know economy.

I wish I were in Japan to test drive this thing. 

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