With an area slightly smaller than Pennsylvania, Cuba claims the prize as the largest of the roughly 700 Caribbean islands and the eighth-largest island country in the world.

Most of the land consists of mostly flat or rolling low-lying plains, with rugged hills and mountainous terrain in the southeast. Despite the mountains, the mean elevation of the island only measures 108 km (354 ft.). About 60 percent of the land is considered agricultural, according to the CIA World Fact Book, with 33.8% arable land, 3.6% in permanent crops, and 22.9% permanent pasture. Major crops include cassava, grapefruit, sugar, and tobacco. Despite the patchwork of farmland and pastures, Cuba is known for having relatively large stretches of pristine mangrove forests and undisturbed coral reefs, beaches, and sea grass marshes.

The ModerateMicro UV was actually developed under the Nissan tutelage by the companyís subsidiary, the Autech. Along with that, there was also some sponsorship that went into the creation of the vehicle from the New Energy and Industry Technology Development Organization, or NEDO. The NEDO, if you did not know, is actually a group that was organized and created by the Japanese government back in the year 1980 so as to develop technologies that would be alternative sources of energy. And the Nissan Micro UV was the product of the team work and coordination between all these groups and businesses.

Nissan did claim that the creation of the Nissan Micro UV was mainly targeted towards the elderly drivers of its native land, Japan. After all, there is a huge increase