Nissan News
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New York state's highest court upheld plans to standardize the New York City taxi fleet.
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Nissan Leaf With 250-Mile Range: Ghosn Shows R&D Car, Video At Annual Meeting
While Chevrolet beats the drum for the Bolt EV 200-mile electric car it will likely launch before the end of next year, Nissan has been relatively quiet about its plans to upgrade the Leaf's current 84-mile range to compete. But at yesterday's annual meeting, a relatively conventional-looking Leaf...
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Nissan And Renault Have Now Sold More Than 250,000 Electric Cars
The Renault-Nissan Alliance has now sold more than 250,000 electric cars.
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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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Chevy, Nissan Reveal Second-Life Uses For Electric-Car Batteries
It's one of the most common questions about electric cars: What happens to the battery packs after the car is junked? Do they just get thrown away? Will any of them be recycled? What happens to their components? The answer is electric-car batteries will largely be recycled--but that they will have...
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UPDATED: Should I Buy A Used Nissan Leaf (Or Another Electric Car)?
About 15 million people buy a new vehicle in the U.S. each year, on average--but almost 40 million buy used cars in that same year. Modern electric cars have been sold in the U.S. since December 2010. Not surprisingly, they're started to show up on used-car lots. Should you buy one? The answer, of...
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National Drive Electric Week, the annual event devoted to advocating plug-in electric cars, will be sponsored by Nissan for the next three years, organizers announced today. The Nissan Leaf is by far the highest-production electric car in history, now closing in on 200,000 global sales since the first one was delivered in December 2010. Nissan had already been the exclusive automotive sponsor for the 2013 and 2014 events. DON'T MISS: National Drive Electric Week: 150 Cities, 90,000 People, Electric Cars All Over (Sep 2014) The carmaker will continue in that role for the next three events...
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2012, 2013 Nissan Leaf Electric Cars Get $5,000 Lease Buyout Credit
Nissan tries to encourage Leaf lessees to take the buyout option.
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Nissan Rogue Hybrid Launched In Japan, U.S. Sales Uncertain
More than four years after launching its Leaf electric car, Nissan is by far the leading maker of electric vehicles globally. In hybrids, however, it was late to the game and has struggled to package products that will prove compelling to North American buyers. Its announcement this week that it...
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Electric-Car Fast Chargers And Gas Stations: A Match Made In Indiana
An Indiana gas-station chain is now operating electric-car charging stations.
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Four Years And 70,000 Miles Later, 2011 Nissan Leaf Going Strong
See what it's like to drive a Nissan Leaf electric car for four years.
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Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid: Missing In Action, Or Just Slow-Selling?
The Nissan Pathfinder crossover utility vehicle seems to be doing well for Nissan, following its 2013 reinvention as a seven-seat family vehicle rather than the tough truck-based 4x4 that had previously defined the Pathfinder name. There's one model of the Pathfinder, however, that seems to be...
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Toyota, Honda, and Nissan will work together to develop hydrogen fueling infrastructure.
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When Federal Electric-Car Tax Credit Ends, Nissan Will Be Ready, Exec Says
Both Nissan and General Motors are roughly one-third of the way toward sales of the maximum number of plug-in electric cars that qualify for a Federal income-tax credit of $7,500. But a Nissan executive says that his company has already made plans for the day when those credits end. DON'T MISS...
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Once More: Low Gas Prices Don't Hurt Electric-Car Sales
Data is important. Data on the effects of changing economic factors is very important to the car industry. Which is why it's disappointing to see a Nissan executive repeating the canard that falling gas prices can hurt sales of plug-in electric cars. DON'T MISS: Plug-In Electric Car Sales Continue...
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Electric-Car Fast-Charging Networks: Competition Heats Up
It's always interesting to reporters when a news story produces unsolicited counterpoints from affected parties. Yesterday's announcement of the agreement among BMW, Volkswagen, and ChargePoint to install roughly 100 electric-car DC fast-charging stations by the end of the year spawned two separate...
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Nissan To Have Longer-Range Electric Cars 'Relatively Quickly,' Exec Says
Nissan feels it can match the range claims of upcoming rival electric cars.
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Nissan Leaf Sets New Annual Record For U.S. Electric Car Sales
The Nissan Leaf, which has long been the world's best-selling electric car, has added another laurel to its crown. With December sales of 3,102 units, total Leaf sales in the U.S. for 2014 totaled 30,200 last year--a new yearly record for any plug-in electric vehicle in the country. Since it first...
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See what's inside a Nissan Leaf electric car.
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Four Special Nissan Leaf Electric Cars To Celebrate 4 Years On Sale
See four special Nissan Leaf electric cars from the first four years on sale.
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Electric Cars Win For 4 Reasons, Says Nissan's Carlos Ghosn
It's hardly a secret that Nissan is by far the world's biggest seller of electric cars, and that its foray into the field four years ago was the work of its CEO, Carlos Ghosn. Now Ghosn has laid out the four reasons that he believes electric cars are being adopted--and will continue to do so in the...
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Nissan 'Quite Optimistic' About Electric Cars, Holding Off On Hydrogen
Nissan is sticking with battery-electric cars, an executive says.
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Nissan CEO Ghosn: Climate Change Must Be Corporate Humanitarian Cause
Carlos Ghosn describes climate change as an "unprecedented humanitarian challenge."
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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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