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A Leaf Falls In January: After 23 Consecutive Increases, Nissan USA Reports...
In the same way that consecutive games without a point draw attention to the fact that Sidney Crosby previously achieved a 25-game point streak, the Nissan’s Leaf slight decline in the lowest-volume...
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Sales Of The Aging Electrics You Know Best Are Predictably Falling Fast
We’re accustomed to seeing outdated sports cars stumble as they age. They’re as capable as they were when launched, of course, but demand for the cars often decreases rapidly. Those who were...
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Editorial: Tax – Don’t Subsidize – Electric Cars
All power is not created equal. That’s one of many takeaways from a comprehensive study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, one of the nation’s prominent think tanks. The paper focused on the...
View ArticleIs This Concept the Next-generation Nissan Leaf?
“The future vision of car intelligence and electrification.” That was the entire press release provided by Nissan along with the above photo. That’s it. That’s all. So, let the wild speculation begin....
View ArticleMark Bites Back: In Defense of Nissan
Bark and I, either by fate or consequence, were presented with very similar automotive options lately. While his choice was made on the Emerald Aisle, mine was made over the phone before a planned trip...
View ArticleElectric Cars Aren’t So Dirty, Coal Power at 35-year Low
Electric vehicles aren’t rollin’ coal anymore — or, at least, not nearly as much as they used to. Reuters reports coal-fired electricity generation is now at a 35-year low in the U.S., and November...
View ArticleTTAC News Round-up: Tesla Range Rumors Fly, Lada Needs a Miracle, and Nissan...
Is Tesla planning a Model S update that squeaks past 300 miles of range? That, a savior is needed at Lada’s parent company, Nissan wants your future car to be everything, Ford goes all in down under,...
View ArticleNissan Wants More EVs, Might Produce an Electric Sports Car
Is there a Nissan competitor to the BMW i8 in the works? A senior executive has hinted there might be. Speaking to Auto Express, senior vice-president Shiro Nakamura said an electric sports car is one...
View ArticleAsk Bark: The Supercut, Episode One
Since we’ve been doing these Ask Bark columns at the beginning of the year, I’ve received well over a hundred questions from you, our loyal readers. While I truly want to answer all of them, some of...
View ArticleThere’s a (100-Mile) Ford in Your Future, But That’s About It
Ford Motor Company is hitting the brakes in the electric vehicle range war. While competitors like Tesla and General Motors are busy preparing EVs with ranges of 200 miles or more, Ford is staying put...
View ArticleMeow, Nissan: Automaker Slaps Tesla in New Leaf Ad
Nissan is trying to play Tesla’s lengthy Model 3 waiting list to its advantage. A print ad that landed in the country’s most-read newspapers this morning is playing up the Model 3’s wait times,...
View ArticleColorado Now the Best State for Tax Dodgers to Buy EVs
Electric cars take considerable flack from average consumers for being far too expensive in comparison to gas-powered competitors — and that’s before you realize it takes years to make that money back...
View ArticleNissan Leaf Sales Faceplant; Chevy Volt Laughs and Points
Nissan Leaf sales have all the buoyancy of a cinder block, meaning buyers clearly weren’t impressed with the extra miles of range added for 2016. The venerable electric vehicle recorded 979 U.S. sales...
View ArticleA Plug-in Hybrid and Two Electrics are America’s Fastest-Selling Used Cars
Electrified transportation isn’t catching fire in the new vehicle market, but sales are positively scorching at used car lots. The top three fastest-selling one- to three-year-old vehicles in the U.S....
View ArticleNext Leaf Will Go 200-Plus Miles On a Charge: Nissan Exec
Nissan doesn’t want its aging Leaf electric hatchback to be left in the dust when the long-legged Chevrolet Bolt and Tesla Model 3 hit the market. To counter the threat, Nissan will double the size of...
View ArticleNissan Really Hopes Free Juice Will Be the Leaf Blower It Needs to Clear the Lot
The Leaf is nowhere to be seen — unless you’re staring at a Nissan dealer lot — and American buyers are barely budging their electric vehicle take up rate. Nissan, it seems, needs another incentive to...
View ArticleGroup Buy Discounts: The Nissan Leaf’s Last Hope?
With Nissan Leaf sales falling like autumn foliage, a few enterprising EV fans hope to reverse the trend (or at least slow it) through group discounts. After a Colorado group negotiated a 248-vehicle...
View ArticleMassive Nissan Leaf Group Buy Kiboshed by Manufacturer
Just north of the Vermont border, you’ll find 3,712 very disappointed would-be Nissan Leaf owners. A Montreal-based group seeking a low-priced bulk buy of Nissan’s electric car has had their dreams...
View ArticleNissan Improves Base Leaf But Tells No One
Suppose an automaker improved a terrible-selling vehicle but didn’t bother to tell anyone about it. Chances are they didn’t just forget, so there has to be some fundamental reasoning behind that...
View ArticleThe Truth About China’s Electric Vehicle Market
The recent Guangzhou Auto Show in China was a reflection of everything stereotypical about the Chinese car market: Chinese OEM clones of European vehicles, North American and European legacy platforms...
View ArticleRenault and Nissan Will Share EV Platform, Postponing the Leaf’s Future
Renault and Nissan will build the next-generation Zoe and Leaf electric cars using a shared platform. The cooperative endeavor should result in leaner, cleaner, and better EV technologies — something...
View ArticleThe Ford Focus Electric is Now the Cheapest Car in America
The Ford Focus Electric is one of the most unloved models in North America right now, and its lonely existence translates into big savings for thrifty shoppers willing to make do with a less-capable...
View ArticleNissan Prepares to Rejoin the Competition With Next Wave of Electric Vehicles
Consumer demand may be the driving force behind automakers shifting assembly line production toward crossover vehicles, but there is another trend that has nothing to do with modern-day sales. Electric...
View ArticleAs It Awaits a Replacement, Nissan’s Fastest-Depreciating Model Sweetens the Pot
How do you keep a very long-in-the-tooth model alive when competitors have bypassed it in terms of technology and practicality? Offer sweet deals, obviously. Nissan’s venerable Leaf, which saw its...
View ArticleNissan Embarks on a Demon-esque Teaser Campaign for New Leaf
It won’t come with a minimum of 808 horsepower, nor will there be a crate to turn it into a dragster. However, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles raised the bar on how to intrigue fans (and annoy journalists)...
View ArticleCanadian Province to Become Used Nissan Leaf Dumping Ground
The Nissan Leaf, which burst onto the scene in late 2010 as one of the first mass-market electric vehicles, hasn’t changed much since its introduction. Until very recently, driving range sat well below...
View ArticlePiston Slap: Justification for a Multi-Car Conservatory?
Dan writes: Lately I’ve been obsessed with buying a Nissan Leaf as a commuter car. That might seem like a sensible stop-and-go commuter choice for most people, but there’s a wrinkle: I already have...
View ArticleNissan’s Next-gen Leaf Will Kind of, Sort of, Drive Itself
After hemming and hawing for what seemed like forever, Nissan will bring American electric vehicle enthusiasts a long-overdue new Leaf later this year. Say goodbye to that old, swoopy body and 107-mile...
View ArticleNissan Tries to Make the Brake Pedal Obsolete in Next-gen Leaf
What’s an e-Pedal? No, it’s not some dorky electric bicycle built by Ford, though that scenario doesn’t sound far fetched. As the steady decline of manual transmission availability brings the...
View Article2018 Nissan Leaf Spotted in Spain, Minus the Camo
The 2018 Nissan Leaf was ready for its close-up, but didn’t count on a Norwegian tourist peering through a hotel window. Photos have emerged of a completely uncamouflaged next-generation Leaf spotted...
View ArticleTake It or Leaf It: Nissan is Selling Its Battery Building Business to the...
Earlier this month, Nissan announced it was in the final stages of sealing a deal to sell its entire EV battery business to Chinese investment firm GSR Capital. The sale includes battery plants in...
View Article2018 Nissan Leaf – The Industry’s Oldest Mainstream Electric Car Turns Over a...
Back in December of 2010, if anyone can remember that hazy, long-ago time, an oddly shaped five-door rolled out of the minds of Japanese executives and onto U.S. dealer lots. Unlike its fledgling...
View ArticleSeemingly Every Automotive Headline Includes Electric This or That, but...
You can forget the GM EV1 and the Toyota RAV4 EV. The car that truly attempted to bring electric cars into the mainstream was the 2011 Nissan Leaf. It didn’t. U.S. Leaf sales, never reaching any great...
View ArticleNational Drive Electric Week Events, Free and Probably Near You
Since 2011, National Drive Electric Week has taken place in venues across the United States, some Canadian locations, and at select international venues. This year, it runs from Saturday, September 9th...
View ArticleNissan Leaf Range Upgrade Remains a Mystery of Our Time
A week after the unveiling of the second-generation 2018 Nissan Leaf, we know for sure that value, value, value! is the upgraded model’s strongest selling point. No longer offering a paltry 107 miles...
View ArticleAny Takers? Nissan Toys With Leaf NISMO Performance Variant
Nissan appears to be considering adorning the Leaf with a NISMO nameplate and appearance. Unveiled on Monday at Nissan’s Futures 3.0 event, the stock 2018 model provides improved performance, range,...
View ArticleNissan to Unveil Leaf GT at Tokyo Auto Salon
We drove the new 2018 Nissan Leaf in California earlier this month, finding it to be an effective foil to the Prius Primes and Chevy Bolts of the world. With far more mainstream styling than its...
View ArticleEPA Says the 2018 Nissan Leaf Goes the Extra Mile – Literally
What a difference a mile makes. Or does it? In the case of the 2018 Nissan Leaf, the second-generation model’s newly enlarged driving range might not sway a single buyer or suddenly place the model...
View ArticleSeeking Global Domination, Nissan Hunts New Markets for the Leaf
After becoming something close to a joke over the past couple of years, the once-groundbreaking Nissan Leaf enters 2018 with a new skin, larger battery, and enhanced range. Next year brings an optional...
View ArticlePiston Slap: Truly a Re-volting Notion?
Jason writes: Dear Sajeev, This isn’t so much a Piston Slap question, but rather a “what would Sajeev do (WWSD)?” My father recently approached me and said that he and my mother are interested in...
View ArticleMore Power Awaits Buyers of the Long-range Nissan Leaf
Many years ago, back when full-on electric cars were rare oddities, I drove an early first-generation Nissan Leaf in power-sapping Eco mode. It was, to this day, the slowest vehicle I have ever driven....
View ArticleNissan Leaf Nismo Confirmed, Baby!
Nissan unveiled the Leaf Nismo EV this week, with sales commencing in Japan at the end of the month. This is a big surprise for the Western automotive media, as few of us truly believed it was...
View ArticleThe Cost of Going Further: Long-range Nissan Leaf Carries a Premium, Has...
Nissan did Leaf fans a favor when it upped the model’s driving range to 151 miles for 2018, a healthy increase from the previous generation’s 107 miles. Still, 151 miles falls well short of the...
View ArticleGermans Poised to Earn Money by Owning a Nissan Leaf
With governments everywhere attempting to reduce powerplant emissions while simultaneously moving the teeming masses out of ICE vehicles and into electric cars, an energy brick wall quickly approaches....
View ArticleNissan Unveils a Leaf That Goes the Distance
Ignoring next week’s North American International Auto Show, Nissan instead chose the high-tech confines of Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show to reveal its latest Leaf. And it’s a Leaf that’s...
View ArticleIs the Base Nissan Leaf Plus the Stripper That Goes Farther?
First off, we could debate whether a true “stripper” vehicle even exists in this era of generous standard content; arguably, my Chevrolet Cruze L doesn’t even make the cut — though one peek at the...
View ArticleAutomakers Need to Start Worrying About the Batteries Lurking in Older EVs
After a few years, most of us begin to notice our smartphones have developed an inability to hold a charge like they used to. The fix used to be pretty simple, no worse than swapping a couple of AAs...
View ArticleCash-strapped Nissan Records an Album
The year was 1981, and the frazzled mother of yours truly found herself behind the wheel more than usual. This writer was apparently screaming and bawling like a 21st century voter, and the only way to...
View ArticleExtremely Green Cars Showered With Another Kind of Green
Want to wear your environmental activism on your sleeve? Park some of it in your driveway. Gone are the days when driving an electric car required careful trip planning — and white-knuckled,...
View ArticleEV Age Dawning Now? NYT Says Yes. We Say Maybe.
The New York Times, or one writer paid by the New York Times (one journalist’s take or analysis or opinion doesn’t represent the entire paper, you know), had a piece out a couple days ago claiming the...
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