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  • 2018 Nissan Leaf

    The Nissan Leaf with a roughly 60-kilowatt-hour battery was expected to make its public debut at the LA Auto Show earlier this month. It didn’t. That car is expected to appear “very soon,” perhaps at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show to be held in Las Vegas next month. DON'T MISS: Long-range Nissan Leaf missing from LA Auto Show But we didn't arrive back entirely empty-handed on new insights about where the Leaf is headed. With that plus a fully electric compact crossover utility vehicle on the horizon—and more electric cars close behind it—we sat down with Dan...

  • 2015 Nissan Leaf, Denver, Colorado, Mar 2016  [photo: owner Andrew Ganz]
    Why I bought a new Nissan Leaf electric car 2 hours from home: $8,500 net cost

    If you’re looking to spend $8,500 on a car, you’re probably going to bring home something with close to six digits on the odometer. Unless, that is, you buy a brand new electric car deep in the heart of oil and gas country. That’s what I did, and that’s how I wound up...

  • 2015 Nissan Leaf
    Nissan Leaf Electric Car: Ultimate Guide, What You Need To Know

    Back in December 2010, an unassuming compact hatchback hit the Japanese and American markets. A new small Nissan isn't normally the cause for fanfares and celebration, but the Leaf is one of the most significant cars of recent years--as it's a competitive, usable electric car. Whether you love or...

  • 2013 Nissan Leaf
    Nissan Leaf Wants Apps, Needs Your Data To Make Them Work

    Humanity is in an awkward phase -- the gangly, emotional phase between life as we've known it for thousands of years and a life lived largely online. The transition has made many uncomfortable, afraid that we're casting off the familiar trappings of the real world in favor of something new...

  • 2013 Chevrolet Volt  -  Driven, December 2012
    How Bad Were The Nissan And GM Electric-Car Sales Shortfalls?

    If 2011 was the year of overoptimism for electric-car sales, and 2012 was Sophomore Slump after the inevitable shortfall, will 2013 be the year of realism? That really depends on what the world's leading electric-car maker, Nissan, sells this year. Let's recap. Several years ago, Nissan said that...

  • 2012 Nissan Leaf in the Apple iPhone 4S commercial
    Finally! A Nissan Leaf Global Ad That Everyone Understands

    In a few months’ time, the Nissan Leaf electric car will have been on sale in the U.S. for two years. While a steady--if slow--stream of Leafs have left dealers all over the U.S. since, Nissan, like some of its rivals, has struggled to find the right way of advertising its first plug-in car...

  • Nissan Leaf Charging Port Cover

    As with many other cars sold around the world, there are small differences between the 2012 Nissan Leaf sold in the U.S. and the 2012 Nissan Leaf found in other countries. While Leaf owners in other countries may end up paying more for their cars, they often get more features included as standard, and more impressive accessories lists. We’ve compiled a list of five official Nissan Leaf accessories that aren’t officially available in the U.S., but you might want Charging Port Lid Cover Essentially a locking lid that clips on the Leaf’s charge door, the charging port lid cover...

  • Nissan Smyrna Tennessee
    2013 Nissan Leaf Edges Closer To Production In Smyrna, TN

    Later this year, Nissan will start producing the 2013 all-electric Leaf at its Smyrna facility in Tennessee. The first time the car has been made outside of Japan, the 2013 models will be made alongside some of Nissan’s other popular cars, including the 2013 Pathfinder, Altima, Maxima, Rogue...

  • Nissan Leaf: Lost Battery Capacity
    Nissan's Mark Perry: We're Investigating Arizona's Wilting Leafs

    More than two months after a few Nissan Leafs in Arizona began to lose capacity bars in the extreme heat and suffer premature battery aging, Nissan has started formal investigations into the issue. While being interviewed over the telephone by Arizona’s KPHO 5 station in Phoenix, Mark Perry...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf SL
    2017 Nissan Leaf: Will It Cost The Same As A 2012 Golf?

    As battery technology improves, the cost of producing battery packs drops, and the number of electric cars on the road increases, it’s pretty reasonable to expect the sticker price of electric cars to drop in the coming years. But how much will they drop by, and how quickly? How much, for...

  • 2012 Nissan Leaf winter test
    Nissan’s CO2 Fund Rewards 2012 Leaf Drivers The More They Drive

    Talk to any electric car owner, and it’s likely they’ll tell you how little money they spend on running their plug-in car. For them, the switch to electric pays dividends in saved gas bills, but in Japan, a new scheme by Nissan takes it one step further, allowing electric car drivers to...

  • Nissan Leaf undergoing extreme testing
    2012 Nissan Leaf: Here's What It Went Through To Get To You

    With thousands of Leafs sold since the model's launch, it appears most owners are more than happy with their purchase. For many, the Leaf will be their first taste of all-electric mobility, and they're finding that the Leaf is happy to do everything their previous vehicle did--only without...

  • Nissan Leaf Goes Underground

    Unless you’re the kind of person who likes spelunking, the chances are you don’t spend much time in caves. For PBS, the underground caves of Cumberland Caverns, Tennessee form the perfect acoustic music venue for the latest season of its Bluegrass Underground show. But how do you get musicians, instruments and television equipment some 300 feet underground to the venue? By Nissan Leaf, of course. Above ground, the duties of transporting instruments, equipment and band members to a gig normally fall to a minivan, tour bus or truck. That’s fine when exhaust gasses can easily...

  • Nissan Leaf Inductive Charging Demonstration
    2014 Nissan Leaf Will Cost Less, Go Wireless, Travel Further, Be Smarter

    Last week we told you that Infiniti, Nissan’s luxury brand, would be including wireless inductive charging on the option list for its first electric car. Now Nissan has confirmed that the 2014 Leaf will also be able to wirelessly recharge itself using a suitable inductive charging station...

  • 2012 Nissan Leaf, Electric Avenue, 2010 Detroit Auto Show
    Nissan Leaf Electric Car Relegates Gas Cars To The Garage, Nissan Says

    It might have an official EPA-approved range of just 73 miles, but the Nissan Leaf, Nissan’s first production electric car, is quickly becoming the primary car in multi-car households where a Leaf is owned. According to Nissan North America, many early adopters purchased the Leaf intending it...

  • Prototype of 2012 Nissan Leaf as New York City taxi cab
    Nissan Leaf Electric Taxis Take On NYC In Pilot Plug-In Plan

    With good reason, it's often said that the toughest auto endurance testing in the world is in taxi duty on the streets of New York City (and Jakarta, and Beijing, and Rio). While the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission has pushed aggressively for high-mileage hybrids--mostly Ford Escape...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt
    Which Cars Are Getting Traded In For Electric Cars? We Find Out

    In the last nine months, we’ve seen over 10,000 plug-in cars sold in the U.S. alone, with Nissan taking the lion’s share of new plug-in car sales with its 2011/12 Nissan Leaf. Mass-produced electric cars still very much a niche market, so anyone buying one can be legitimately thought of...

  • Hertz electric-car rental press event, New York City, September 2010
    Hertz Says 'We Need More Electric Cars' After Year Of Rentals

    Hertz has now been renting electric and plug-in cars for almost a year, and the company has learned some lessons along the way. Among them: "We need more electric cars!" Specifically, "We've got about 50 electric cars in our fleets now, and we could use another 2,000 to 3,000 if we could just get...

  • John Duncan takes delivery of one of the first 2011 Nissan LEAF EVs, near Portland OR, 12/15/2010

    Amidst supposedly slow sales--actually limited mostly by low production--one benefit to automakers of offering electric cars has nothing to do with cars that plug in. Not only do electric cars attract radically different buyers to the brands that offer them, they also help sell conventional gasoline cars. Plug-in cars, it turns out, are "halo vehicles" that attract shoppers into showrooms--and those shoppers may end up buying another vehicle, sans plug. Stories in The Detroit News and other outlets have reported on data showing that the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf plug-in vehicles attract...

  • Ottawa resident Ricardo Borba takes delivery of the first consumer Nissan LEAF in Canada
    First 2011 Nissan Leaf Electric Car Delivered To Canada

    O Canada, you've given the world so much: Keanu Reeves, Celine Dion, Pamela Anderson Lee Ritchie Salomon, poutine. Now, the world -- or at least Nissan -- is giving you something in return: your very first 2011 Nissan Leaf. The vehicle was purchased by Ottawa resident Ricardo Borba and delivered by...

  • Uk, 2011 Nissan Leaf
    2011 Nissan Leaf Outside U.S.: More Expensive, More Features

    In the past year the 2011 Nissan Leaf has launched in many different countries across the world, from Japan through to Ireland and Australia to Canada. But while you probably know the Nissan Leaf’s sticker price varies from country to country, you may not know there’s a few subtle...

  • 2012 Chevrolt Volt Gas Station Advert
    Electric-Car Sales: Does GM Have A Chevy Volt Sales Problem?

    It's that time of month again. Car sales reports spewed forth from the High Gear Media teletypes yesterday (September sales were up), and analysis stories followed. On the electric-car front, Nissan sold 1,031 Leaf battery-electric vehicles and Chevy shifted 723 Volts. While that's an improvement...

  • 2012 Chevrolt Volt Gas Station Advert
    Yes, The 2012 Volt Uses Gasoline (When You Need To Pee)

    Remember Apple’s popular Mac Vs PC adverts, in which John Hodgman’s haggard PC was constantly bettered by Justin Long’s smug Mac? After a while, Microsoft -- the firm to which the Get A Mac campaigns were so obviously targeted against -- chose play off Apple’s criticisms and...

  • Traffic
    Electric-Car Owners To Lose If CA Carpool Lanes Get Tolls?

    State and local agencies are strapped for cash, and one source of income may be the high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes on congested freeways. In Southern California, local officials plan to convert "carpool lanes" to toll lanes with variable pricing, allowing drivers to pay up to $10 for the...

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