Nissan has taken one of its X-Trail FCVs (Fuel Cell Vehicles) around the famous Nurburgring circuit.
The green machine is a zero-emission electric vehicle that is powered by electricity produced on-board via a hydrogen fuel cell stack.
Germany's Nurburgring is more used to seeing manufacturers test their new super and sports cars around the tortuous 13-mile, 73 turn lap.
Costing 1.3 million euros, the Nissan X-Trail FCV certainly has the price tag of an exotic car.
It was driven around the Nurburgring by Fank Eickholt, a member of Nissan's 24 Hours Nurburgring race team and track aficionado.
In his hands the X-Trail FCV lapped the track in 11 minutes and 58 seconds on standard road tyres.
That's some way off Nissan's own incredible lap time of 7 minutes and 29 seconds achieved recently in its GT-R super coupé, but still an incredible achievement in an alternative fuelled vehicle.
Eickholt reckons that the X-Trail FCV could achieve a 30-40 second quicker lap time in the dry.
As the lap time demonstrates, the X-Trail FCV offers few compromises, it having a range of 500km, peak power of 138bhp and seating for five. The X-Trail FCV is still an experimental car, but Nissan hopes to have a fuel cell vehicle in series production by 2015.
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