GM Calls Leaf Commercial Cute, but Damaging
30 May 2011, 13:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Earlier this week, French automaker Renault (and, subsequently, Japanese manufacturer Nissan) hit us with a question: what if all those everyday appliances, all the tools you use at work, all those ...
Nissan Happy with 5 Star Rating for Leaf at Euro NCAP Tests
25 May 2011, 12:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Euro NCAP released a new series of crash test results on Wednesday, the most interesting of them regarding Nissan's electric vehicle, the Leaf. As we told you earlier today, the Euro NCAP a...
Nissan Leaf, Pace Car of the BolderBOULDER
25 May 2011, 12:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Undoubtedly, this week would go down in history as one of the most successful for the Leaf electric vehicle. Not as important as the weeks during which the car was named the vehicle of the year in E...
Nissan Ponders F1 Racing with Leaf NISMO RC
25 May 2011, 09:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The NISMO version of the Nissan Leaf electric vehicle, the RC, is getting ready to leave the realm of show cars and take a more active, on the track role, aiming to promote the Japanese manufacturer...
Nissan Leaf, the First EV to Get 5 Stars Euro NCAP Rating
25 May 2011, 08:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European car safety guru, the Euro NCAP, released today the results of a new series of tests it conducted on the cars of the moment. Among them, the Nissan Leaf, the first mass-produced pure ele...
Nissan Leaf Price to Take a Dive in the UK from 2012
24 May 2011, 11:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Seen as a viable transportation option, but one that is still out of reach for many customers because of the high price tag, the Nissan Leaf EV is doing what it can on the British market, the first ...
SIM-LEI EV, 200 Miles on a Single Charge by 2013
24 May 2011, 11:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Range, the ultimate goal of the current electric vehicle industry. Increasing the number of miles an electric car can travel on a single charge has become one of the most important aspects of this s...
Nissan to Install 30 Solar EV Chargers in Smyrna
24 May 2011, 05:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A place which is likely to become, at least for the short term, the EV manufacturing capital of the world is worthy of some very unique things. Smyrna, the place where Nissan will be assembling hund...
Interest in Green Cars Peaks in the UK
23 May 2011, 08:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With all the debate around green cars, adorned from place to place with the occasional scandal, gas price increases and government incentives, green cars have slowly slipped into the public attentio...
Nissan Releases Leaf Nismo RC Shakedown Video
17 May 2011, 12:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Japanese engineers behind the Leaf RC racer have released a new video, showing the car out on the track for a little shakedown action, at Sodegaura Forest Raceway on May 13. With it blacked-out ...
Nissan Leaf Smokeboard in New York
28 Apr 2011, 12:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The New York International Auto Show of last week brought little in terms of new models on the East Coast, as most of the vehicles had already been presented at either the Detroit event or in Geneva...
Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf Score Top Ratings in IIHS Crash Test
26 Apr 2011, 06:30 UTC · By: Cosmin Voicu / The 2011 Chevrolet Volt and the 2011 Nissan Leaf have completed their first crash tests, and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) have confirmed that the two models are good for front, ...
Nissan Leaf Handed to London Mayor
21 Apr 2011, 11:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The efforts made by the current London mayor, Boris Johnson to transform the country's capital into the greenest metropolis in Europe entered a new stage this week, after he was handed the keys...
Nissan to Reopen Leaf Reservations on May 1
20 Apr 2011, 18:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After the higher then anticipated demand for the Leaf electric vehicle forced Japanese automaker Nissan to halt the reservation process in order to avoid further consumer discontent, things seem to ...
Nissan Signs EV Charging Deal with Saga Prefecture and FamilyMart
20 Apr 2011, 07:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The efforts Japanese manufacturer Nissan is making in order to insure a smooth market entrance for its Leaf electric vehicles continue, with special emphasis being placed on locations in the domesti...
Nissan to Fix Restart Issue on 5,300 LEAFs
18 Apr 2011, 11:24 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Between production problems and a widespread failure to start, the Nissan LEAF had a bit of a rough start. According to the Japanese automaker’s statement from last week, the restart issue res...
Top 10 Green Cars of 2011 Announced
12 Apr 2011, 11:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the gas prices soaring for reasons we all know, consumers are now left with only one choice: go for cars that provide the lowest possible fuel consumption, without sacrificing performances. And...
Nissan Leaf First Problems: Restart Issues
11 Apr 2011, 15:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When it decided to launch the Leaf electric vehicle on the market, Japanese manufacturer Nissan chose to do so without resorting to testing the model in the hands of a selected few, like its competi...
Fleet Forum to Promote the Nissan Leaf
8 Apr 2011, 08:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Japanese from Nissan are hard at work trying to make the entrance of the world's markets of their Leaf electric vehicle as easy as possible and, despite the fact that we haven't seen m...
Nissan Leaf Canadian Prices Announced
31 Mar 2011, 18:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Having managed to survive the disaster that hit Japan on March 11, Nissan is now back to regular business, focusing, again, its efforts on launching its gamble of all times, the Nissan Leaf, on more...