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A little piece of tomorrow has landed on the Nissan stand at the Paris Motor Show, which runs until 14 October in the French capital. It’s the futuristic Nissan TeRRA, a four-wheel drive SUV concept that has a number of distinctive features.

We spoke to visitors at the show to see what they thought of the car. Thanks perhaps to its wide opening doors with no central door pillar they thought it looked very futuristic.

Parisians love ZOE! The latest pure electric vehicle to hit the streets, Renault ZOE has been one of the undoubted highlights of the Paris Motor Show, which runs until 14 October in the French capital.

As the show opened to the public we asked a few visitors what they thought of the car… and the verdict was hugely positive. They like the looks, the light and airy interior and the technology.

But most of all they love the fact that it produces zero tailpipe emissions. As one visitor said: “I’m thinking of buying one, as the environment is a big thing for me.”

The hugely advanced technology of an electric vehicle means high prices according the man in the Paris street. But is that really the case? The answer is “No”.
 
EV experts Thomas Orsini from Renault and Olivier Paturet from Nissan reveal all on our video here. Find out what they cost to buy and what they cost to run… and see whether an EV could actually be cheaper than its conventional cousin.

Charging an electric vehicle takes… well no-one seems quite sure how long it takes judging by the views from the street of Paris. We asked the questions before the Paris Motor Show opened its doors and the answers varied tremendously.
 
But if you watch our video here you can discover the truth from the people in the know: electric vehicle experts from Renault and Nissan, Thomas Orsini and Olivier Paturet. Is it a few minutes, a couple of hours or an overnight charge? Watch our video here.

Perhaps the biggest misconception surrounding electric vehicles is that they can’t go very far… at least, that’s what the people of Paris seem to think.
 
Are they right, or have they got it hopelessly wrong? Renault’s Thomas Orsini and Olivier Paturet from Nissan explode a few myths about range anxiety. Watch our video here.

More charging points are needed now!

We are demanding greater investment in electric vehicle infrastructure before personal mobility is lost forever.

At a special meeting during the Paris Motor Show, Hideaki Watanabe, Managing Director of Zero Emission Vehicles, Renault-Nissan BV, told delegates representing local authorities, fleet operators and other interested parties: “The time to invest in EV infrastructure is now.”

It seems that most Parisians think an electric vehicle is a funny looking thing, a bit of an oddball.
 
Watch the video to discover the reality as electric vehicle specialists Thomas Orsini and Olivier Paturet from Renault and Nissan describe cars like the Nissan LEAF and the Renault ZOE.

Some people have funny ideas. On the eve of the Paris Motor Show we asked a number of Parisians a few questions about electric vehicles (see the video). Their answers varied from the almost right to the completely wrong!

We decided the best way to get to the truth was to ask the experts. We’ve lined up Thomas Orsini and Olivier Paturet, electric vehicle specialists at Renault and Nissan respectively, to explode a few of the myths surrounding EVs.

We asked people when they thought we’d be able to buy an electric vehicle. Watch the video to see whether electric vehicles are still science fact or whether in fact the future is here, now.

Renault-Nissan Alliance CEO Carlos Ghosn and Daimler’s CEO Dieter Zetsche held their annual press conference last Friday Sept. 28 at the Paris Motor Show to update on the Alliance-Daimler strategic partnership which began in April 2010.

At the conference, the CEOs announced two new projects to accelerate development of fuel-efficient powertrains and confirmed that the original projects announced in 2010 have been accomplished or are on track. The first concrete results of that partnership are visible on the road this year – the Mercedes A-Class with a 1.5 dCI Renault engine and the Mercedes Citan, a small van built on the Renault Kangoo architecture at Renault’s Maubeuge plant in France.

With 38,000 examples of the pioneering Nissan LEAF sold globally so far and sales of game-changing Renault ZOE city car just about to start, the Renault-Nissan Alliance’s Zero Emission strategy is right on target according to the man who should know.
 
Visiting the Paris Motor Show, Hideaki Watanabe talks about the success of LEAF and the Alliance’s ambitious plans to have 1.5 million electric vehicles on the road by 2016.
 
He also reveals how the Alliance is stepping up deployment of its Quick Charger programme which will allow EV drivers to recharge their batteries to 80 per cent capacity in just 30 minutes.