New York taxi model begins electric trials

This month, Japan's postal service will begin trials of an all-electric NV200 in Yokohama, in Japan's Kanagawa prefecture, ahead of other tests in Japan and Europe.

Nissan says that the trial will give it a chance to evaluate the van's performance under a customer's normal usage conditions and that it expects commercial electric vehicles based on the NV200 will contribute "to the development of a sustainable society."

As of 2013, the NV200 will be the official taxi of New York city, a considerable coup for the Japanese brand which will see its bright-yellow models carrying some 600,000 people around the Big Apple every day.