Nissan Leaf News
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A Nissan Leaf salesman explains why driving an electric car helped his customers quit smoking.
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Nissan And Renault Together Pass 200,000 Electric-Car Sales
A little less than four years ago, the first 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car was delivered to eager buyer Olivier Chalouhi in San Francisco. Earlier this month, Nissan and its partner the French carmaker Renault delivered their 200,000th electric car. DON'T MISS: Three Years With The First Nissan...
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U.S. Air Force Unveils Fleet of 42 Electric Vehicles, Nissan Leafs Included, For V2G Tests
The U.S. Air Force will conduct a vehicle-to-grid test program in Los Angeles.
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Why New 2016 Chevy Volt Might Sell 50,000 Units Its First Year
Launching entirely new types of cars is expensive, time-consuming, and challenging--as Toyota could have told Chevrolet and Nissan during 2010. Toyota's sales of its early Prius hybrid-electric cars, however, may offer hope to electric-car fans disappointed at modest sales of the two affordable...
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Nissan Leaf-To-Home Electric-Car Power Tests: More Practical For U.S. With Longer-Range Cars?
Nissan will test its Leaf-To-Home station at certain dealers in Japan over the next few months.
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2018 Nissan Leaf: Will Less 'EVness' Make It More Appealing?
What will the next-generation 2018 Nissan Leaf electric car look like? No actual photos, or even teasers, have yet been released. Despite that, we're gradually getting a better picture: It'll still be a five-door hatchback, and it'll still be around the same size. But expect its 'EVness' to be...
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Batteries are the key component in building practical electric cars. And for its first all-electric Leaf in 2011, Nissan developed its own proprietary lithium-ion battery pack--even planning and setting up its own assembly facilities to build them. That trajectory started back in 2007, but today, the landscape of electric-car battery supply and procurement is vastly different. Perhaps most notably, batteries are integrated into the entire automotive supply chain. So, seven years later, just how committed is Nissan to keeping battery development, engineering, and assembly in-house? DON'T MISS...
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Electric Cars Have Lots Of Torque; Use It Wisely, Kids! (Video)
The latest Nissan Leaf ad showcases the advantage of electric-car torque.
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World's First Nissan Leaf Electric Pickup Truck, For Shop Use Only (Video)
Nissan adds a pickup bed to the Leaf electric car for an unusual project.
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2018 Nissan Leaf Renderings: How Conservative Will Design Be?
It's long been acknowledged that the current Nissan Leaf electric car is a radical and distinctive design, just as the landmark 2004 Toyota Prius hybrid was. But some portion of potential buyers, who may be amenable to the benefits of driving a battery-electric vehicle, won't consider the Leaf...
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Who Wins Electric-Car Brand Battle? BMW, Tesla Have The Buzz Now
Sales numbers aside, are BMW and Tesla winning the electric-car brand battle?
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GM's 200-Mile Electric Sonic EV For 2017: What We Know So Far: UPDATED
The arrival of a moderately-priced battery electric car with a rated range of 200 miles will change the entire market for plug-in vehicles. When that will happen, and from which maker, remains open--though the likely suspects are Nissan, Tesla, and General Motors, with BMW as a long-shot outsider...
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Mitsubishi was the earliest maker to launch a modern battery-electric small car and sell it in volume, and Nissan has emerged as by far the world's highest-volume seller of electric cars. Now the two makers have announced they're teaming up to develop an inexpensive electric minicar. According to Nikkei, it will go into production before the end of March 2017. DON'T MISS: FINAL UPDATE: Plug-In Electric Car Sales In July: Leaf, Volt Both Do Well The news answers the question of what will happen to the aging Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric minicar, first introduced in Japan back in 2008 and launched...
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IIHS Tests Small Cars On Small Overlap: Volt Does OK, Leaf 'Struggles'
One of the toughest crash tests a car can face is the new small-frontal-overlap, introduced by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in 2012. By crashing a vehicle so that only 25 percent of its front end contacts the barrier, far greater forces are transmitted through the car than in a...
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Nissan Leaf Vs BMW i3 Vs Volkswagen e-Golf: German Magazine Compares
The BMW i3's styling has been divisive since its launch earlier this year but one thing that most agree on is its abilities--it's among the best electric cars yet. When Volkswagen launches its e-Golf though, BMW will face tough competition--and worldwide, the Nissan Leaf is still a best-selling...
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Nissan Leaf $5,500 Battery Replacement Loses Money, Company Admits
Last month, electric-car owners finally learned the price of a replacement battery pack for the Nissan Leaf: a surprisingly low $5,500 after the old pack is traded in. Many advocates and Leaf owners promptly seized on the price to "prove" that Nissan could now build batteries for less than $250 per...
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2015 Nissan Leaf: Full Details, Pricing Released
Out with the old, in with the new: It's hard to believe the Nissan Leaf is already entering its fifth model year. With the 2015 Nissan Leaf models that are already reaching dealerships, there's no boost in range or performance, but there are some minor feature improvements that might be cause to...
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Nissan Leaf Video Highlights Use Of Recycled Materials
As you drive your shiny new Nissan Leaf out of the dealership in silence and zero-emissions cleanliness, it's easy to forget all the resources and energy that have gone into building it. Those are a necessary evil as far as car production goes, but companies like Nissan are doing their best to...
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It hasn't reached the heady heights of May's record-breaking sales tally, but Nissan still has the highest-selling mainstream electric vehicle on the market. Nissan rounds off the month's sales having moved 2,347 Leafs. That's 770 fewer than May's best-ever Leaf sales total, but it's still a record for June, up 5.5 percent on last year's June total. June's sales bring the Leaf's year-to-date total to 12,736 cars, further increasing its lead over the Chevrolet Volt and other electric vehicles for 2014. It's also the Leaf's sixteenth straight month of record sales, and means Leaf deliveries are...
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Nissan's DC Quick-Charging Stations: 630 CHAdeMO Sites Live Today
While most electric cars get charged overnight for most of their miles, the growing number of DC fast-charging sites enable longer trips when necessary. But those quick chargers--initially CHAdeMO stations for Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi i-MiEV cars, and more recently Tesla Supercharger sites for its...
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Nissan Leaf New Battery Cost: $5,500 For Replacement With Heat-Resistant Chemistry
Three and a half years after the first Nissan Leaf went on sale, Nissan has announced the cost of a replacement lithium-ion battery pack for its electric car. It's a surprisingly low $5,499 (after a $1,000 credit for turning in the old pack, which is required), plus installation fees and tax. The...
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Nissan Leaf Carwings: Company 'Hopes' To Improve Telematics App
Nissan wants to use Carwings to collect more data on battery health.
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Nissan Leaf Fleet Joins London's Electric Taxi Ranks
Electric cars make a lot of sense for use as taxis. Taxis are typically driven in cities, where air pollution is often a problem. They tend to do frequent short runs punctuated by stops. And passengers tend to like a smoother, quieter taxi ride. London taxi firm eConnect Cars has realized all these...
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Nissan Leaf Electric Car Becomes Futuristic Attack Vehicle On Japanese TV Show (Video)
Want to guarantee your car immortality? Get it featured on a TV show or in a movie. Nobody has to ask twice what a DeLorean looks like, and most people probably know what car Starsky and Hutch drove. And Herbie is a no-brainer. ALSO SEE: Would You Ride This Tiny Folding Electric Scooter To Work?...
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