Just days before the Nissan LEAF’s one-year anniversary, the Japanese automaker announced that it will be expanding the availability of the all-electric car into new U.S. markets. Nissan today re-opened reservations and has begun taking orders from the general public for the 2012 Nissan LEAF in Delaware, Indiana, Louisiana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. [...]
As of yesterday, Nissan Motor Co, Ltd. has started commercial sales of its latest quick charger in Japan. At half the volume of the previous model, the new quick charger still maintains all of the performance of its predecessor, and features simplistic technology and design with electric circuit technology. Nissan will be installing 400 of [...]
Nissan has created a new, floor-mounted wireless charging station for the Leaf that will be available for both public and private installation. Click here for our review on the Nissan Leaf. The new charging station works by the driver driving over the floor where the system is installed, where the charging station will recognize the Leaf [...]
Prospective EV buyers and traveling EV owners should be excited by this announcement: Nissan, partnered with Coulomb Technologies, is putting the finishing touches on a public, nationwide charging network. Locations are now on the Nissan Leaf website and will be increasing in number as demand grows. Though the Leaf is not sold in all 50 [...]
Nissan North America, Inc. has joint up with SunPower Corp. in order to educate Nissan Leaf owners on the benefits of having a SunPower residential solar power system in their home. “Solar power is a reliable, cost-effective technology for homeowners today,” said SunPower President and CEO Tom Werner. “High efficiency SunPower systems are guaranteed to [...]
General Motors said that it is sticking to its 2011 U.S. sales forecast of 10,000 Chevrolet Volt units, despite some rather slow sales. The Detroit automaker must sell as many in the final two months of the year as it did in the first 10… but things aren’t looking that bad. GM sold a total [...]
Nissan is moving forward with its all-electric vehicle technology. The brand has used the same technology used in the Leaf to create three commercial trucks, which debuted at the Tokyo Truck Show this year. The e-NT400 Cabstar Concept can travel 62 miles between charges per Japan’s JC08 fuel economy testing. It was created for operation [...]
Nissan has been doing well with the electric powertrain market and the Nissan Leaf. But to make sure that they remain the leader, Nissan’s CEO Carlos Ghosn has set some pretty ambitious sales goals for “zero-emissions” cars. In a small press conference, the head-honcho of the Japanese brand said that he wants Nissan to sell [...]
The Nissan LEAF, according to the EPA’s fuel-economy testing, lets owners drive a total of 73 miles. Nissan’s own internal test using the LA-4 cycle, shows the LEAF’s driving range to come in at 100 miles on a single charge. While driver’s who have range-anxiety want at least 200 to 300 miles between charges, Nissan [...]
Given a sub $20,000 price tag and a propensity to sip fuel rather than swill it, one might think that an attractive and aggressively marketed midsize car would far outsell a smaller, $35,000 car with a range of just 100 miles, but it hasn’t. Interestingly, the Nissan Leaf outsold the Suzuki Kizashi by 1754 units [...]
