{"id":5756,"date":"2021-12-03T17:44:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype"},"modified":"2021-12-03T18:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T18:06:33","slug":"japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>TOKYO (Sputnik) &#8211; Japanese car manufacturer Nissan presented on Thursday a lunar rover prototype, developed jointly with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In its joint research with JAXA, Nissan is evolving e-4ORCE technology to improve its performance in sandy terrain and other harsh conditions. When cars are driven in sand their wheels frequently spin and dig in, impeding progress. A high level of driving skill is required to avoid getting stuck. To meet this need, Nissan has developed driving-force controls that minimize the amount of wheel spin in accordance with surface conditions,&#8221; the statement of the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The e-4ORCE feature is an all-wheel control technology used in all Ariya electric crossovers by Nissan. The rover is designed to &#8220;traverse the moon\u2019s powdery, rocky and undulating terrain and be energy efficient,&#8221; and the e-4ORCE technology is to boost its capacity and &#8220;minimize the amount of wheel spin in accordance with surface conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The development has been ongoing since 2020. On Monday, the automaker unveiled its \u201cNissan Ambition 2030\u201d plan to account for the half of all the global range of electrified vehicles by 2030.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. TOKYO (Sputnik) &#8211; Japanese car manufacturer Nissan presented on Thursday a lunar rover prototype, developed jointly with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). &#8220;In its joint research with JAXA, Nissan is evolving e-4ORCE technology to improve its performance in sandy terrain and other harsh conditions. When cars are driven in sand their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,31],"tags":[760,763,3126,758],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-nissan","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Japan&#039;s Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"TOKYO (Sputnik) - Japanese car manufacturer Nissan presented on Thursday a lunar rover prototype, developed jointly with ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Japan&#039;s Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TOKYO (Sputnik) - Japanese car manufacturer Nissan presented on Thursday a lunar rover prototype, developed jointly with ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-03T17:44:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-03T18:06:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/12\/img-61aa5c8857cd4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Japan&#8217;s Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-03T17:44:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-03T18:06:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype\"},\"wordCount\":207,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/12\/img-61aa5c8857cd4.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Nissan\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype\",\"name\":\"Japan's Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype - Rwanda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/12\/img-61aa5c8857cd4.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-03T17:44:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-03T18:06:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"TOKYO (Sputnik) - Japanese car manufacturer Nissan presented on Thursday a lunar rover prototype, developed jointly with ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/12\/img-61aa5c8857cd4.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/12\/img-61aa5c8857cd4.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Japan's Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Japan&#8217;s Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\",\"name\":\"Rwanda\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Japan's Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype - Rwanda","description":"TOKYO (Sputnik) - Japanese car manufacturer Nissan presented on Thursday a lunar rover prototype, developed jointly with ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Japan's Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype","og_description":"TOKYO (Sputnik) - Japanese car manufacturer Nissan presented on Thursday a lunar rover prototype, developed jointly with ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype","og_site_name":"Rwanda","article_published_time":"2021-12-03T17:44:43+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-12-03T18:06:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/12\/img-61aa5c8857cd4.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Japan&#8217;s Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype","datePublished":"2021-12-03T17:44:43+00:00","dateModified":"2021-12-03T18:06:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype"},"wordCount":207,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/12\/img-61aa5c8857cd4.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Rwanda","Nissan","Rwanda"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","Miscellaneous"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype","name":"Japan's Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype - Rwanda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/12\/img-61aa5c8857cd4.jpg","datePublished":"2021-12-03T17:44:43+00:00","dateModified":"2021-12-03T18:06:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"TOKYO (Sputnik) - Japanese car manufacturer Nissan presented on Thursday a lunar rover prototype, developed jointly with ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/12\/img-61aa5c8857cd4.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/12\/img-61aa5c8857cd4.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"Japan's Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/japans-nissan-announces-creation-of-lunar-rover-prototype#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Japan&#8217;s Nissan Announces Creation of Lunar Rover Prototype"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/","name":"Rwanda","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}