Nissan seems to be proving to the world that it is indeed committed on safeguarding the environment as the Japanese automaker made two announcements on Monday regarding their diesel technology commitment. Nissan announced that they will be introducing a new clean diesel technology to be incorporated in their X-Trail SUV in Japan. This will be launched in Japan on the fall season of 2008. They also said that their new clean diesel technology has a great potential in meeting California’s emission standard for super-ultralow-emission vehicles, which is one of the hardest green rating to reach in the world.

Nissan has not yet fully released the details on their X-Trail Diesel model but they said that they’ll be disclosing its performance and specifications when its already close to the time of its introduction. However, it has not yet on Nissan’s plans to offer this to the American market. But they did say that the X-Trails diesel will be based on the “M9R engine co-developed with Alliance-partner Renault.” They also said that it will be using high-performance catalysts and engine management technologies. Nissan said, “This clean diesel engine is being developed to lower exhaust gas emissions to levels comparable to those of new emissions standards in Japan.”

The second announcement that Nissan made is that their new clean diesel technology will “be able to achieve cleaner diesel emissions in future vehicles that will meet the stringent SULEV standards set by the state of California,” as the automaker also considers their US consumers to be of great importance. Nissan released a statement saying, “Nissan plans to do further research and development of the clean diesel technology for commercial applications in its future products.”

Nissan said that they plan to use three devices which are the high-performance catalysts, advanced engine control systems and a “modulated-kinetic combustion” in order to decrease the diesel emissions.

They said that their initial plan is not to sell this soon-to-be new model in the United States but considering that they put great importance to their US consumers, the US auto market could still hope to drive this X-Trail diesel model.

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