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The X-Trail 20GT is the first vehicle in the world to meet Japan's new exhaust emission standards, which are due to take effect in October of next year.
The vehicle's 2.0-liter diesel engine, which was developed jointly with France's Renault SA, achieves cleaner emissions by controlling combustion better and by efficiently removing nitrogen oxides with catalysts.
Delivering a fuel economy of 15.2km per liter, the engine makes the X-Trail 20GT 30 per cent more fuel efficient and brings its carbon dioxide emissions 20 per cent below that of comparable gasoline-powered vehicles.
A model equipped with a manual transmission will go on sale first. The price tag of 2.99 million yen (US$27,980.42), including taxes, makes the vehicle roughly 470, 000 yen more expensive than the comparable gasoline-based X-Trail, but users will be able to take advantage of lower fuel costs and better fuel economy. In Japan, diesel fuel is more than 10 per cent cheaper than gasoline.
"We achieved both high-power output and environmental performance," Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga said in a news conference Thursday. "We hope to make such vehicles popular in Japan by dispelling the perception that diesel is bad for the environment."
(Nikkei)
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