Nissan's Green Business-Eco Pedal

With the sales of cars keep falling down all around the world, car manufactures have to be really serious about the way to reduce carbon dioxide from emission and global warming. They might have to change their management strategies such as the technology to increase fuel efficiency to suvive in five years.

Nissan is going to commercialize its world first eco pedal system that aims reduce CO2 consumption during 2009. What is unique about this fuel-efficient technology is that whenever the driver steps on the accelarator with the amounts more than required, a counter push-back control mechanism is acctivated and informs the driver that they could be using more fuel than needed.



An eco-driving indicator provides the driver with real-time fuel consumption levels to help driver's behaivior, and the Eco Pedal system can be turned on or off according to the driver's preference.

Research conducted by Nissan has shown that by using the ECO Pedal drive system, drivers can improve fuel effiency by 5-10%, depending upon driving conditions.In order to accomplish the reduction in CO2 emission, Nissan takes a triple-layer solution that encompass vehicle technologies,driving behavior and traffic conditions.

Nissan's environmetal roadmap aims at developing new technologies, products and services that can lead to real-world reductions in vehicle CO2 emissions, cleaner emissions, and recycling of resources (reffered in part from JapaneseSportsCars.com).