Nissan News
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Canada's first Nissan Leaf is still going strong after five years.
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Nissan Note hybrid leaked, but not likely for North America
The Nissan Versa Note has never been a particularly big seller in North America. Its sedan counterpart is one of the largest and most capacious vehicles in the subcompact segment, but the Note has always been more of a car for European and Asian markets. There, it does fairly well, in part due to a...
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Nissan partners with oil company for electric-car fast charging sites in Charlotte
It's one of the questions for future electric-car charging infrastructure: what about putting them at gas stations? On the one hand, drivers are used to going to gas stations, which are often conveniently located on both local and long-distance routes. On the other hand, gas-station stops generally...
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Nissan electric subcompact below Leaf in future electric-car lineup?
The 2011 Nissan Leaf was the first mass-priced modern electric car when it launched in December 2010. Nissan has since sold close to a quarter of a million Leafs, and together with its alliance partner Renault it has now sold more than 350,000 all-electric vehicles. But the Leaf is still with us...
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2017 Nissan Rogue Hybrid: better prospects than Pathfinder, Murano for small hybrid SUV?
As predicted several years ago by a now-departed member of the Nissan product team, the third of three hybrid SUVs has rolled out. The 2017 Nissan Rogue Hybrid is the smallest of the three, and the company seems to be somewhat more optimistic about its prospects. Last year's 2016 Murano Hybrid...
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Range-extended electric Nissan Note to launch in November?
An extended-range electric Nissan Note will launch in Japan in November, according to a new report.
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Nissan takes its Leaf electric car on a European tour.
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Infiniti plans VC-T engine with variable compression ratio
Infiniti is likely the first carmaker to put a variable-compression engine into production.
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Olympics VIPs get rides in Nissan BladeGlider electric sports car
Nissan unveiled a pair of prototypes based on its BladeGlider electric sports car concept in Brazil.
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Nissan seeks to sell AESC electric-car battery venture: report
Nissan, alone among high-volume electric car makers, owns half of the company that makes the battery cells for its cars. Tesla Motors doesn't own any of Panasonic, which has supplied all cells to date for its three vehicles (though Panasonic owns a small part of Tesla). GM doesn't own any of LG...
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Nissan Leaf 48-kWh prototype built to compete in Spanish race series (video)
Nissan employees built a 48-kWh Leaf prototype in their spare time.
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1,000-mile Nissan Leaf electric-car road trip in the Northeast: are we there yet?
When my son scored a coveted civil engineering summer internship in Silver Spring, Maryland, the chance for an electric-car road trip from our Boston-area home presented itself. Sure, I could have done the sensible thing and taken my trusty 2006 Toyota Prius, but where would be the adventure in...
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Certain 2016 Nissan Leaf electric cars are being recalled to address an electrical fault in their airbag systems.
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2016 Nissan Murano Hybrid slips quietly into lineup, minimal volume expected
What if a car is launched, ever so quietly, and no one notices at first? Does it exist? Such existential questions are posed by the recent discovery that Nissan is now selling a hybrid version of its Murano crossover utility vehicle, as of the current 2016 model year. DON'T MISS: Nissan Pathfinder...
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Nissan and Renault together now up to 340,000 electric cars built
Nissan and Renault reach another electric-car milestone.
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2016 Nissan Sentra 1.8 SR CVT gas mileage review
The Nissan Sentra compact sedan has been with us since the 2013 model year, but it received a number of updates and new features this year. Nissan's goal was to keep the high-volume compact sedan in the running against the new and well-received Honda Civic, Hyundai Elantra, and Chevrolet Cruze...
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Nissan Juke, Rogue crossover SUVs to offer all-electric versions?
It's a frequent complaint from car shoppers: all the affordable electric cars are small hatchbacks or sedans, but I want an SUV. Indeed, there's only one all-electric crossover utility vehicle on the market—the Tesla Model X—and that will run you $80,000 or more. Now it appears that...
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Next Nissan Leaf confirmed for 60-kwh battery, 200 miles of range
The next-generation Nissan Leaf will get a larger battery pack.
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The numbers are in, and for the Nissan Leaf electric car, they're not pretty. Despite a boost in its EPA-rated range from 84 to 107 miles, its year-to-date sales of 4,697 units are down 40 percent on the 7,742 that were sold in the same five months last year. And those were down on the total of 10,389 over the year-earlier total during the first five months of 2014. DON'T MISS: Plug-in electric car sales for May flat: Leaf struggles despite range boost A host of reasons for the steady decline is possible, but journalist Brooke Crothers suggested in Forbes that it's all due to what he calls...
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Nissan takes a different approach to fuel cells: ethanol
When the world at large thinks of fuel-cell vehicles—to the extent it does, at least today—they are associated with hydrogen as the fuel to power them. But a fuel cell, more broadly speaking, is any device that produces electricity from a variety of input fuels or energy carriers. This...
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2011 Nissan Leaf electric car crosses 150,000 miles of commuting (updated)
Many drivers with a 130-mile round-trip each day to work and back might deem the 73-mile EPA-rated range of a 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car far too little to qualify for the commute. Not Steve Marsh, though. The Washington resident continues to rack up miles in his early Leaf. He crossed 100,000...
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Nissan home energy-storage battery: another front against Tesla?
Nissan is launching a line of energy-storage battery packs called xStorage.
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Madrid to get world's largest electric taxi fleet of Nissan Leafs
A Madrid taxi company will receive 110 Nissan Leaf taxis.
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Suzuki says wrong fuel-economy tests used in Japan, joining Mitsubishi
Suzuki said it used the wrong methods for fuel-economy tests, but implied the deception wasn't intentional.
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