Engineers American Technical Center Nissan, located in Arizona, altered Leaf electric car in the car for commercial traffic, are welded to it the cargo bay of a pickup Frontier (Navara). The machine, known as Sparky, used to transport large items on the territory of the test center, the size of which is 1234 hectares.
The authors of the project were engineers Roland Schellenberg and Arnold floss. Schellenberg planned remake Leaf as a task for team building. In addition, the center for corporate needs required a similar car.
Directly responsible for drafting the floss, selected as the "donor" pickup Frontier. Besides them, the creation of the machine was attended by other members of the research center - only about 35 people. According to the authors, the work went on, "a few months".
Employees of the center cut Leaf rear upper part of the body, leaving only the rear doors, which later became the wings of a pickup truck. Then, the resulting structure are combined with the cargo compartment Frontier. Cargo compartment cover has become the fifth door Leaf.
In addition, the engineers replaced the tail lights, changing the location of tail lights - they were transferred under the bumper. To give Sparky "a nostalgic view," Molyneux nailed to the surface of the cargo compartment of old boards, which he found in his garage.
Arizona Nissan Technical Center is a major testing ground for the company in North America. On its territory there are 92-mile oval track. The main activity of the center - testing cars in hot climates.
Directly responsible for drafting the floss, selected as the "donor" pickup Frontier. Besides them, the creation of the machine was attended by other members of the research center - only about 35 people. According to the authors, the work went on, "a few months".
Employees of the center cut Leaf rear upper part of the body, leaving only the rear doors, which later became the wings of a pickup truck. Then, the resulting structure are combined with the cargo compartment Frontier. Cargo compartment cover has become the fifth door Leaf.
In addition, the engineers replaced the tail lights, changing the location of tail lights - they were transferred under the bumper. To give Sparky "a nostalgic view," Molyneux nailed to the surface of the cargo compartment of old boards, which he found in his garage.
Arizona Nissan Technical Center is a major testing ground for the company in North America. On its territory there are 92-mile oval track. The main activity of the center - testing cars in hot climates.
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