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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Nissan is starting to run out of things to tease about its highly anticipated upcoming next-generation 2018 Leaf, which is set to be unveiled in just two weeks.
Yet, they released another teaser with a picture of the tail lights and a new video today.
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Infiniti, Nissan’s premium brand, currently doesn’t offer any electric car despite its parent company being a leading electric vehicle manufacturer.
Now they unveil a new electric car concept and unfortunately, it’s not something that will make it to production.
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Autobytel, a website that lists and advertises cars for dealerships, posted specs for the “2018 Nissan Leaf”, which will feature Nissan’s next generation electric platform, before taking them down.
Now several media outlets claim that those are the official specs leaked by a dealership.
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Before Tesla bet on its Gigafactory strategy to secure battery supply for its electric cars, Nissan had a similar plan by launching Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC) back in 2007.
But the division is having difficulties competing with other battery suppliers and Nissan is now selling it.
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Nissan is about to launch its next generation all-electric Leaf and aside from a design refresh, a longer range is expected to be the biggest upgrade.
The range was expected to be over 200 miles in order to compete with the Tesla Model 3 and Chevy Bolt EV, but the sighting of a next-gen prototype is now casting some doubts.
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Regenerative braking is one of the most interesting and differentiating features of electric vehicles. While virtually all electric cars on the market have it, the feature is tuned differently for each vehicle.
Now Nissan promises one of the most advanced regenerative braking systems for the next-generation Leaf.
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Some automakers have disclosed sales targets for electric cars and they are kind of all over the place. Most of them are for 2025 or later and target for 20 to 30% of their total business.
When it comes to more short-term targets, they are rare, which makes a recent statement from a Nissan executive interesting.
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Ahead of the September launch of its next generation all-electric Leaf, Nissan has been gradually teasing images and features of the vehicle.
Today, it confirmed that the 2018 Leaf will have autonomous parking as part of ProPilot.
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After the Tesla Model 3, the 2018 Nissan Leaf is likely the most anticipated all-electric vehicle to be released this year. It should feature the biggest update to the vehicle since its launch in 2010.
Now it gets an official release date.
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The upcoming next generation Nissan Leaf will be the first of the Japanese automaker’s vehicles to feature its new ProPilot driver assist system outside of Japan.
Today, Nissan released a preview of the feature in a video and the first picture of the next-gen Leaf’s steering controls.
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