Meet Sparky, Nissan's Leaf-based, Frontier-bedded EV parts hauler [w/video] - Autoblog (blog)
VIDEO REPORT: NISSAN ENGINEERS MARRY A LEAF TO A FRONTIER FOR USE AROUND THE SHOP. – If necessity is the mother of invention, engineers fuel that fire at Nissan's Technical Center in Stanfield, Arizona. They love to build things, test things and tinker with things. But we have visitors and they come and they see that truck and they go straight to 'what is it. ' and they start looking at it, and it makes great conversation," said Roland Schellenberg, Nissan Durability & Reliability. It is a Nissan LEAF crossed with a Nissan Frontier, brought to life by Nissan's Roland Schellenberg and Arnold Moulinet. He supports operations at Nissan's proving grounds located on 3,050 acres in Stanfield, Arizona. Something to drive around, a shop truck," said Schellenberg. It was months in the making, and there were many considerations, but Arnold Moulinet, Schellenberg's colleague in the Durability & Reliability group, had the right tool-set to fabricate the vehicle into reality. "After he (Schellenberg) told us it was going to be the LEAF that we would redo, I went home and stayed up till like four in the morning making all kinds of designs for what would work. We basically got the stock LEAF, and after reviewing a bunch of designs of pickup trucks that we have here at Nissan, we decided to go with a Frontier bed. My main job here is working on rough-road vehicles, rough-road testing. Source: www.autoblog.com
