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Hertz to Rent Nissan Electric Cars in 2011

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The Hertz Corporation, the world's largest general use car rental brand, will add Nissan's electric car to its lineup in the U.S. and Europe by early 2011, the company said on Friday.

Hertz plans to use the Nissan LEAF, a medium-size all-electric hatchback which runs on lithium-ion batteries giving it a range of around 100 miles (160km).

In the future, Hertz and Nissan plan to expand Nissan LEAF electric vehicles into Hertz's global car share service, "Connect by Hertz." By applying the same innovative model to car sharing, this would allow the Renault-Nissan Alliance to scale up availability and acceptance of electric vehicles across a wide consumer base in some of the world's most densely populated cities.

The Nissan Leaf is due to go on sale in
Japan, the US and Europe later this year. The Nissan-Renault Alliance will then begin to mass market electric vehicles in 2012.

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