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Nissan Leaf Sales Expected To Fall Steeply This Summer
Like the leaves in autumn, sales of the Nissan Leaf are falling amid a flurry of changes coming to the EV this summer.
2016 Nissan Leaf Expected To Receive Larger Battery, Small Range Boost
Consumers looking for a new Nissan Leaf may soon have the option for a better battery with improved range on certain trims.
Second-Gen Nissan Leaf Announcements Coming This Summer
Wanting to know if the Nissan Leaf will look more conventional in its second iteration? Power and range more your concern? Can you wait until this summer?
Nissan Looking Beyond Federal Credits For Leaf
Though Nissan has sold over 77,000 Leafs since 2010, the automaker has plans for when the federal credits end with the 200,000th unit of the popular EV.
Dongfeng Nissan Launches Leaf-Based Venucia E30
After 3.1 million miles of pilot testing, Dongfeng Nissan last week launched its version of the Leaf for the Chinese EV market, the Venucia e30.
Nissan Loses Money On Every Leaf Replacement Battery Sold
In June, Nissan announced that Leaf owners could obtain a replacement battery pack for $5,500 upon trading in the old unit. While a boon to said owners, the automaker is losing blood on the deal every time a pack is sold.
Nissan: 633 CHAdeMO Fast Chargers Available For Use Today, More Coming
Just in time for the Fourth of July travel weekend, Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi i-MIEV owners will have access to 633 CHAdeMO fast chargers, up from 160 stations in January 2013.
Nissan UK: Leaf Dominated EV Sales In 2013
Though consumers in the United Kingdom may not have been too interested in electric vehicles last year, Nissan says the majority of those sold belong to the automaker.
Review: 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV (With Video)
Outside North America, this little blue pill of an A-segment car is known as the Daewoo Matiz Creative. It may look an obsolete computer peripheral (or a pregnant roller skate), but GM claims that the Chevrolet Spark has more torque than a Ferrari 458 Italia. As a self-described technology lover, and card-carrying resident of the Left Coast, I had to check it out.
Best Selling Cars Around The Globe: The Nissan Leaf Found Its Home In Norway
Last time I spoke with you, we went to our traditional monthly worldwide Roundup, spending time praising the ever-impressive performance of the Nissan Qashqai. This week I take you to Norway, the new land of the Nissan Leaf…
Requiem: 2012 Coda Sedan
About a year ago Bertel, Ed and I ended up in Los Angeles for a PR meet/dine with Coda. No automotive event would be complete without a drive and our electrifying dinner was no different. Bertel and Ed wisely chose to leave the driving to me (although they did toss me in the trunk and close the lid later that evening). Since that night I have struggled to erase the Coda from my mind when today it all came flooding back. Coda has filed for chapter 11 protection. I know it’s bad form to speak ill of the departed, but this is TTAC so let’s have a review style requiem for the worst EV ever made.
The Truth About Battery Life
The drama circling around the New York Times test of the Tesla Model S doesn’t surprise me one bit. Why? Because I understand, perhaps at a deeper level than most of the motoring press, how batteries work. Perhaps that has to do with growing up in a family of engineers and scientists, but battery technology has always interested me. So when people from Phoenix came to me crying in their soup about their LEAFs in the heat and friends started wagging fingers at Tesla and the New York Times, I figured it was time for a battery reality check.
New Nissan Leaf Promises You More Or Less
Nissan showed a refreshed version of its all-electric Leaf today. Available to the Japanese market at first, it offers both more and less.
QOTD: How Many Leafs Were Bought So Far?
A game of two questions: How many Nissan Leaf do you think were sold so far? And where does it sell the best? Answer after the jump.
Slow EV Sales Disappoint And Frustrate Nissan COO
Nissan’s chief operating officer Toshiyuki Shiga said he was “disappointed and frustrated” by the lackluster sales of electric vehicles in general and the Leaf in particular. Speaking at the mid-term results press conference at the Nissan HQ in Yokohama, his emotional appeal to recognize Nissan’s pioneering efforts in the field of zero emissions had undertones of an eulogy on the electric vehicle:
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