{"id":47718,"date":"2009-11-24T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/24\/report-electric-infiniti-will-stay-true-to-brands-performance\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:30:00","slug":"report-electric-infiniti-will-stay-true-to-brands-performance-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/47718","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Electric Infiniti will stay true to brand&#8217;s performance roots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/sedans\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sedan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/infiniti\/\" rel=\"tag\">Infiniti<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/electric\/\" rel=\"tag\">Electric<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20091123\/OEM05\/311239968\/1186\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/electric_infin_sed.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After spending a product cycle honing its image, Infiniti doesn&#8217;t want to to compromise it&#8217;s standing in the luxury automobile set &#8212; not even for its electric vehicles. That is why the &#8220;compact, high-performance, four-seat luxury Infiniti with zero emissions&#8221; that Carlos Ghosn announced at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/TokyoAutoShow\/\">Tokyo Auto Show<\/a> will not alter what people have come to expect from Nissan&#8217;s upmarket brand. If a VP in Infiniti&#8217;s Business Unit, Ben Poore, is to be believed, it will enhance it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The model will fit perfectly with the performance standards that we&#8217;ve set for the brand,&#8221; Poore said. We don&#8217;t imagine it will be too difficult for Infiniti to simply electrify one of their vehicles and make it worthy &#8212; we&#8217;d hop in an electric G37 in a second. The real challenge will be livability and longevity. Those challenges could be what Infiniti has in mind in not giving its electric car a release date, because they&#8217;ll want to get it right&#8230; and maybe they want that time to perfect a four-door, electric <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/03\/03\/geneva-2009-consider-the-show-stopped-infiniti-rolls-out-its-e\/\">Essence<\/a>. Let the dreaming begin in three, two&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20091123\/OEM05\/311239968\/1186\">Automotive News<\/a> &#8211; Sub. Req.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/24\/report-electric-infiniti-will-stay-true-to-brands-performance\/\">REPORT: Electric Infiniti will stay true to brand&#8217;s performance roots?<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST.  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