Nissan’s latest video on the Nissan Leaf covers what charger installation at home, the speed of charging via various charging station options, fast charging at a CHADEMO DC Fast Charge station, and the optimal charge level. Nissans’ series of educational videos about the Nissan Leaf continues with a discussion of…
Nissan’s new series of videos, over the next three weeks, covers the basic questions about the Nissan Leaf coming from the little experience most have with electric cars. It’s the modern era social networking websites like Facebook, and on the Nissan LEAF Facebook fan page is the first in a…
After ten years in an electric car like the Nissan Leaf, its battery pack might still have 70% of its original capacity, theoretically making it reusable in the smart grid. One of the questions related to electric vehicles is the disposition of the battery packs after a few years when…
While many voices in politics and the media want us to believe electric cars, like the Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt, are failing, Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf cases show that their’s is hardly the only interpretation of reality. Are the electric cars from Nissan, GM and Tesla a flop…
Two dozen Nissan Leaf electric cars were mangled in the tsunami, with no battery pack fires, giving us anecdotal battery pack safety evidence compared with the Chevy Volt. The Fukushima tsunami that proved deadly last Spring to TEPCO’s nuclear power plants, was no problem at all for the Nissan Leafs…
The LEAF tour has been in the San Francisco Bay Area this week, and today was at the Santana Row shopping center in San Jose. The tour will be in various cities across the U.S. and those who are interested should go to Nissan’s website (see The Nissan LEAF is…
The Nissan LEAF was first disclosed to the public on Aug 2 and it is expected to be for sale on the market in late 2010. This fall and winter Nissan is taking the LEAF on a tour of the U.S. to raise awareness about this vehicle. “Nissan is the…
The times they are a changing, and the “web 2.0” age includes a different approach to marketing. Hence it should not be a surprise that Nissan is using avenues like YouTube and Twitter in marketing the LEAF vehicle. See “Some Nissan LEAF questions answered” for earlier coverage of how Nissan…
Apparently some of the upcoming commercially available electric vehicles will separate the battery pack and vehicle purchases. Famously that is the business plan of Project Better Place who is proposing that customers lease the battery pack and buy the car. Nissan has not made a clear decision regarding the LEAF…
Nissan has sent out an email attempting to answer a bunch of questions that have been asked about the LEAF. This is coupled with an expanded LEAF website and the promise of a newsletter. You can ask questions on the site and they’re giving answers. The answers appear to also…
Last weekend Nissan announced the LEAF (see Nissan announces the LEAF, an affordable zero-emissions electric car), an all-electric sedan slated to go on sale sometime between 2010 and 2012. Today the Auto Express is reporting that Renault (Nissan’s partner) seems to be preparing itself to only produce electric cars. They…
It’s risky to closely examine any product which isn’t going to be available until at least 1 year into the future. The manufacturer may change some things before finalizing the product. Still Nissan has published enough information about the LEAF to give us room to examine the details and do…
(part 1: Nissan announces the LEAF, an affordable zero-emissions electric car, part 2: Range anxiety and the new Nissan LEAF EV, part 4: Turning over the Nissan LEAF (to look inside)) Dimensions Length: 4445 mm / 175.0 in. Width: 1770 mm / 69.7 in. Height: 1550 mm / 61.0 in.…
In the past electric vehicles have had a bit of fear attached to them: What if I run out of juice and can’t recharge? AAA can’t simply dispatch a truck with a gallon of electrons to refill the tank. The fear has enough of a grain of truth behind it…
Nissan today unveiled the Nissan LEAF, an affordable zero-emission electric car. It is an EV, not a hybrid car, meaning there is no engine, nor any of the other accoutrements associated with gasoline such as the gas tank and tail pipe. While it is an electric car, Nissan stresses that…
