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The next generation Nissan Leaf unveiled last year didn’t feature all the new upgrades that were expected, but it kept its relatively low price.

Nissan now says that it made it ‘the fastest selling electric vehicle in Europe.’
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Nissan has long been rumored to be working on a bigger version of the Leaf to produce an all-electric SUV or crossover.

Seven years after releasing the Leaf, Nissan has yet to bring the vehicle to market, but an executive now says that it will come to production based on the IMx concept.
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Several automakers have been open about their difficulty making money by selling electric cars, or in some cases they don’t even try to make a profit and instead focus solely on getting the ZEV credits.

Carlos Ghosn, chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, claims that they are ahead of the game when it comes to making money on EVs.
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Europe is starting to get more than its fair share of electric car fast-charging networks – making the rest of the EV world jealous and now we learn of again a new one as French automaker Renault announces its backing of the project.
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The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance announced today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China’s mobility giant Didi, also known as “China’s Uber”, to “explore future business cooperation on a new electric vehicle car-sharing program” in China.
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China is pushing automakers to make significant investments in electric vehicles way ahead of any other large market.

Now, Nissan’s Chinese joint-venture announced that it is increasing its EV investment to launch ‘more than 20 electric models’ in the next 2 years.
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As we often reported before, the new Nissan Leaf doesn’t compete in many ways against Tesla’s Model 3 and GM’s Chevy Bolt EV when it comes to features and capacity, but it still has pricing on its side.

Now the next generation version of Nissan’s all-electric receives a lease program as it starts hitting the dealerships – becoming one of the cheapest options to go electric.
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Now that the new Nissan Leaf is starting to make its way to dealerships in the US, the EPA released its official rating and the new electric vehicle is getting 151 miles and 112 MPGe.
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We have seen several similar announcements over the last year and they are often being misreported simply as ‘(insert automaker) is going all-electric’, like Volvo and Jaguar, which is why it’s important to be clear about what is being announced here.

Infiniti, Nissan’s luxury brand, announced that ‘it will go electric’ starting in 2021, which means that all new models will offer “electrified powertrains” from 2021.
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Nissan announced today that the company has sold and delivered its 300,000th Nissan LEAF globally – the best-selling electric vehicle cumulatively to date.
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Nissan’s next-generation Leaf was expected to have a battery pack option to push the range over 200 miles in order to compete with Tesla’s Model 3 and GM’s Chevy Bolt EV, but it ended up with a 40 kWh battery pack enabling 150 miles of range.

The Japanese automaker did say that a longer range version would come by the end of the year, but now a report claims that it will offer much more than just more range.
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After launching the new all-electric Nissan Leaf in September and starting production in Japan and the UK, the Japanese automaker is now starting production of the new vehicle in the US.

The new electric car should hit dealerships as soon as next month.
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The Nissan-Renault Alliance has been an early leader in electrification with the Leaf and the Zoe, but they have been taking their sweet time to release new models, which resulted in their lead slowly slipping away.

Now they are preparing an important electric car push with several new models, as discussed by CEO and Chairman Carlos Ghosn in a new interview.
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Nissan unveiled the next-generation Leaf last month and the automaker has gradually started rolling out the new all-electric vehicle to a few markets.

The vehicle is apparently off to a relatively good start as Nissan confirms that it got 9,000 orders in for the new Leaf in less than 2 months.
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Nissan becomes the latest automaker to announce that it will be joining the Formula E electric car racing championship with its own team.

They will join in the 2018-19 season when things will start to get more interesting with the new electric race car platform and as individual teams get more freedom.
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As expected, the new vehicle that Nissan had been teasing is an all-electric crossover vehicle.

Unfortunately, it’s very much a concept and not really a vehicle aimed at production to follow the next-generation Leaf unveiled last month.
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Just a few weeks after launching the next generation Leaf, which was arguably Nissan’s biggest move into electrification since the launch of the original Leaf in 2011, the Japanese automaker is about to move big on EV again at the Tokyo Motor Show this week.
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This week, Nissan launched the new e-NV200 all-electric van using the same new 40 kWh battery pack introduced in the next generation Leaf.

To showcase the new vehicle, Nissan had it attempt to break the “electric van towing record” by moving a house.
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Nissan has been testing different vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems, which enable electric car owners to use their car’s battery pack to feed energy back into their home or grid, with the Leaf for years now.

With the launch of the next generation Leaf, Nissan now unveils a new EV ecosystem, including a scheme to offer free power to owners with a V2G system.
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After months of teasing, Nissan has finally officially unveiled its next-generation Leaf today in Tokyo, Japan.

The new version of the all-electric vehicle feature a new design, “~40% range increase”, vehicle-to-grid capacity, and several more features.
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Yet another major automaker, the Renault-Nissan Alliance, announces an effort to produce electric vehicles in China following the country’s aggressive goals to electrify its rapidly growing fleet.
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