Snowman in the Desert
"Another Quality Story" SNOWMAN IN THE DESERT3:24
rom
the
icy
plains
of
northern
Russia
to
the
scorching
desert
of
the
middle
east,
our
planet
brews
up
incredible
extremes
in
temperature
and
weather
conditions.
And
our
cars
have
to
be
able
cope
with
whatever
the
weather
throws
at
them,
too.
The problem is, how can you be sure a new vehicle is up to the job? Sure, you could take it around the world to test it in every conceivable environment. In fact, Nissan do just that. But nature makes for an unpredictable laboratory. Rain today, fine tomorrow....
So what to do?
At Nissan, the answer is easy.
They simply make the weather, right in their own back yard.
Mr. Ninomiya
This facility has two test area wind tunnels, the first is the all weather test laboratory, and the other is the low temperature solar laboratory. The all weather laboratory is used to recreate rain and snow, and also fog conditions. The solar laboratory is for testing air conditioning systems.
As you can see, it is snowing in here now, so we can repeat experiments under exactly the same conditions, without actually going to cold areas of the world, and make sure that the vehicles are trustworthy.
We recreate conditions that have been observed around the world, so we can make it rain 100 mm an hour, or simulate the heat of the sun up to 1 kilowatt.
We can simulate cold areas down to minus 40 degrees, and up to 45 degrees for the hottest parts of the planet.
By recreating the world's climates right in the lab, Nissan can make sure that your car will perform, whatever the weather.
Mr. Ninomiya
Depending on where you are in the world, there are all kinds of environments, all kinds of ways of driving, and customers use their cars in all kinds of different ways, too. We can recreate those conditions continuously here, to be sure that we are satisfying all our customers needs, and delivering cars that are safe and reliable.