Well that's a small range requirement, I think you could do this cheaply.
You can use the same inverter yes, the trick is to get it to work properly. You have to trick the whole computer system into thinking the Nissan Note is still a car, with all of its sensors. I have not heard of anyone doing that, so it will be a lot of experimenting and engineering for you. But it's possible.
Alternatively, a motor is just a motor. You could salvage any controller to power it. I have not heard of any Nissan Note inverter projects, but there are Nissan Leaf projects, and many Toyota Prius projects. You would have to purchase a replacement control board, and follow a "tuning" procedure to tune the software to operate the Note motor correctly, but there are tutorials for this and it is relatively straightforward.
You could get one of these from OpenInverter.org or EVBMW.com , both websites have slightly different products available, for reasonable price.
If you want to do it 100% from garbage, you have to learn how to make the Note inverter think it's still inside the Note, driving the Note.