Nissan News
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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 a second life after they're taken out of the car they were supplied in. DON'T MISS: Chevy Volt: Battery Pack Housing Today, Owl's Nest Tomorrow? (Mar 2011) Even after the pack can only store 70 percent of its original energy capacity--the point at which it's considered no longer usable in a car--it...
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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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Nissan To Continue Sponsoring National Drive Electric Week Through 2017National 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...
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2012, 2013 Nissan Leaf Electric Cars Get $5,000 Lease Buyout CreditNissan tries to encourage Leaf lessees to take the buyout option.
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Nissan Rogue Hybrid Launched In Japan, U.S. Sales UncertainMore 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 IndianaAn Indiana gas-station chain is now operating electric-car charging stations.
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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, Nissan To Support Hydrogen Fueling Sites In JapanToyota, 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 SaysBoth 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 SalesData 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 UpIt'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 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 SalesThe 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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Nissan Leaf Electric Car Disembowled, Displayed On Pegboard (Video)See what's inside a Nissan Leaf electric car.
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Four Special Nissan Leaf Electric Cars To Celebrate 4 Years On SaleSee 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 GhosnIt'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 HydrogenNissan is sticking with battery-electric cars, an executive says.
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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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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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New Nissan Pulsar Compact Hatch Rivals VW Golf, But No U.S. Sales PlannedThe Nissan Pulsar is a compact five-door hatchback designed for the European market.
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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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Nissan's Electric-Car Battery Future: Will It Be With LG Chem?Nissan is set to close electric-car battery plants in England and the U.S. and turn to Korean maker LG Chem for some batteries. Or perhaps not. A startling and exclusive Reuters report yesterday said that Nissan is in the middle of reassessing its plans for electric-car production and global...
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