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Battery-car shuttles for COP17

Zero-emissions battery cars from the Renault-Nissan Alliance will try to highlight the benefits of green transport as shuttles for delegates to the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban.

The 17th annual Conference of Parties (known as COP17) that will open on November 28 hopes to "stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system".

Nissan will showcase its LEAF electric vehicle and Renault's Kangoo Z.E, Fluence Z.E sedan Twizy two-seater and ZOE hatchback. The Fluence Z.E and LEAF will be used as shuttles for COP17 delegates.

TWIZY SNEAK PEEK

Renault will offer test drives in its Twizy - due for launch in South Africa in 2012 - at the Mabhida Stadium.

Hideaki Watanabe, Renault-Nissan Alliance MD, said: “The Renault-Nissan Alliance applauds what South Africa and all the nations represented at COP17 are doing to reduce the threat to our environment and standard of living due to global warming.

“The Alliance wants to be part of the solution for a sustainable society. Our electric vehicles - which consume no petrol - offer a real and affordable solution to drastically reducing CO2 emissions."

Nissan will launch the LEAF in South Africa in 2013.

The conference will run until December 9.

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