Nissan News Articles
Nissan Leaf EV Explores SimCity
Nissan and Electronic Arts are integrating the Nissan Leaf into the most recent edition of the city-building strategy game, SimCity. Both companies said players are able to create EV-friendly cities by driving Nissan Leaf EV and installing up to five Nissan-branded charging stations throughout their cities free of charge. With branded charging stations throughout the [...]Advanced High Tensile Strength Steel Coming In Nissans
Nissan will incorporate a significant amount of its Advanced High Tensile Strength Steel in its future vehicles, including electric vehicles. Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. announced March 12 its plan to expand the use of Advanced High Tensile Strength Steel (AHSS) in to up to 25 percent of the vehicle parts (measured by weight) installed in its [...]Video: Leaf Business Update With Nissan Exec
Nissan is in the midst of launching the second generation of its electric car, the Leaf. With this in mind, and with critics wondering if the sales performances are worth the effort, Nissan has produced a video interview with Billy Hayes, Nissan’s Vice President in charge of global sales of the Nissan Leaf. The video [...]Nissan To Update And Adapt 2013 Leaf To Customers
Nissan Americas will reportedly update the 2013 Leaf with optional leather, and other improvements to the car which is to be unveiled in December when its production begins in Smyrna, Tenn. According to the Detroit News, Mark Perry, Nissan’s director of product and advanced planning said use of animal hides had originally been set aside [...]Nissan Considers Battery-Leasing for Electric Cars
For the past few months, Nissan-Renault has been tiptoeing around the idea of leasing the battery packs that power its upcoming electric cars. The goal is to assuage consumer worries about getting stung with the high cost of replacing an electric car battery if it fails or loses too much capability over the course of [...]Next Wave of Japanese Hybrids Heading to US
The number of hybrid gas-electric vehicles offered by Japanese car companies will multiply in the next few years. That’s evidenced by a list of upcoming hybrids reported by the trade publication Automotive News this week—providing a plausible scenario for specific hybrid models coming to the United States around 2011. We’re not talking about novel concept [...]Reservations for Nissan Leaf Begins, With a Few Glitches
Nissan began yesterday to take reservations for the Nissan Leaf—the first mass-market all-electric car to hit the market since GM’s EV1 was canceled in 2003. A list of approximately 100,000 pre-registered interested buyers received an email, notifying them that the reservation website was ready to take orders. The reservations, which require a refundable $99 fee, [...]Nissan’s NV Becomes Chevy’s City Express
Chevrolet announced May 14 that it is entering the small cargo van segment with the City Express to meet the demands of customers in an emerging commercial vehicle segment. GM will procure the vehicle from Nissan and distribute it through the Chevrolet dealer network. The 2015 City Express, based on the Nissan NV200, is Chevrolet’s [...]Nissan Leaf Details Revealed in National Tour
The Nissan Leaf on display in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Nov. 24, 2009. The national tour for the all-electric Nissan Leaf continues to make its way across the country. We were able to see the five-seat 100-mile-range car yesterday in Walnut Creek, California—a few days before it arrives at the 2009 San Francisco International Auto [...]Production Starts For Nissan Leaf In Sunderland
Nissan celebrated March 28 the official start of European production of the revised electric Nissan Leaf. This new Nissan Leaf, already in production in Tennessee and incorporating more than 100 updates, is now rolling off the line at the company’s Sunderland Plant, in the UK. The lithium-ion batteries are also manufactured in the UK, at [...]