Oregonian: While Detroit executives beg for bailouts, Japanese automakers speed through turns in a race whose winner could dominate the next generation of car sales. From Toyota City to Atsugi — the site of Nissan’s advanced technology center where Gov. Ted Kulongoski drove an electric car Tuesday — engineers are locked in a white-knuckle competition to produce zero-emission cars. Nissan, which announced a deal last week to launch its electric vehicles in Oregon, is determined to lead …