In South Australia, winemaker Joseph Evans faced an annual electricity bill that had climbed to 6,000 AUD at his Barossa Valley vineyard, Ballycroft. Evans saw solar power, V2G, and his Nissan LEAF as the solution.

Michelangelo once said that "Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." For Haruo Yuki, a master clay modeler at Nissan, that block of stone is a large slab of clay.