Nissan News Articles
Nissan to build 'Chinese' plug-in car in China for 2015
Nissan’s CEO Carlos Ghosn announced today that the company will build an all-electric vehicle in China for the Chinese market with its joint venture partner Nissan-Dongfeng. The plug-in is due by 2015 and will share many components from Nissan’s LEAF, but will be an entirely new “Chinese” vehicle selling under the Venucia brand name. According [...]Electric Cars in LA Limelight
All but a handful of cars on the floor of the LA Auto Show, which runs through Nov. 30, have combustion engines—including quite a few diesels—but electric cars are getting their moment in the spotlight at the greenest of US auto shows. Carlos Ghosn, CEO of both Nissan and French carmaker Renault, gave the keynote [...]Nissan Leaf Pre-Orders Pass 8,000, and Counting
The number of customers who have pre-ordered the all-electric Nissan Leaf is up to 8,000. That’s 10 days after Nissan started taking take $99 refundable deposits. “I’m feeling pretty good about it,” Mark Perry, director of product planning at Nissan, told HybridCars.com. The response represents almost 8 percent of the 102,000 people who had previously [...]PluginCars.com To Take First Drive of Production Nissan LEAF
Behind the wheel of the LEAF. The all-electric Nissan Leaf is one of the most anticipated cars to hit the market in generations. We were among the group of media to test early production “mule” prototypes of the LEAF in April 2009 (for the New York Times). We were behind the wheel of another prototype [...]Toyota Still Seen As Top Green Automaker
Toyota’s consistency as a green company has been confirmed by a third successive top ranking in the annual Best Global Green Brands report. This report was published June 12 by international brand consultancy Interbrand. Interestingly, automotive brands make up 50 percent of this year’s top ten. The report gauges the gap between public perception of [...]Nissan’s Small EV Tested In Japan
Nissan’s New Mobility Concept vehicle took a step closer to the roads of Japan. The Tokyu Corporation joined Nissan and the city of Yokohama in the final year of its Yokohama Mobility Project Zero, to increase low-carbon transportation locally. Nissan said its 100-percent electric vehicles– namely, the Leaf– and now its two-seater mobility cousin are [...]Microsoft UK Chooses Nissan’s Leaf EV
Two Nissan Leaf have been delivered to Microsoft UK. The pair is thus becoming the first 100 percent electric cars to join its staff company car program. Looking for ways to reduce its vehicle fleet carbon footprint, Microsoft UK ran five weeks of competitive internal trials with other electric car manufacturers. The trial involved inviting [...]West Midlands Police Charging With Leaf
Criminals won’t be the only ones charged now that West Midlands Police (WMP) took delivery of 30 Nissan Leafs in the UK’s largest corporate Leaf deal to date. Ten local policing units (LPUs) will run three “diary car” Leafs each: the cars will be used to attend pre-arranged meetings with victims of crime and locals [...]Bose Sound System Comes To Nissan’s Leaf
The now U.S.-built Nissan LEAF will now be available with a custom-designed Bose Energy Efficient Series sound system. This new Bose system will be available on the 2013 model that goes on sale this month. Nissan proudly stated that the Bose system in the LEAF delivers powerful, high-quality audio, but with a significantly smaller and [...]Nissan’s Leaf Aims To Conquer Sidney
Nissan’s Leaf is gaining supporters in Australia. The City of Sydney has taken delivery of ten Nissan Leaf. According to Nissan, this represents the single largest order of Leaf electric vehicles in Australia. Nissan said the order replaces ten Toyota Prius that were part of the city’s former fleet, and will be used by a [...]