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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
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...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
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...
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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...
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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...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
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...
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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...
John Voelcker -
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...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
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...
John Voelcker -
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...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
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...
John Voelcker