If A Leaf Drives In The Forest, Can A Blind Person Hear It?
Possibly not, says the National Federation For the Blind. According to the NYT the group is disappointed that the [Nissan Leaf's] driver is permitted to turn off the sound because it in effect, allows...
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EV Racing Turns Over A New Leaf
Perhaps one of the biggest disappointments in the much-hyped world of electric vehicles is the fact that no major OEM has committed to proving their battery-powered cars in the crucible of competitive...
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Chevrolet Volt Misses 2011 Sales Target By 2,300 Units, Outsold By Nissan Leaf
Wamp wamp! That’s the sound of the sad trombone playing for the Chevrolet Volt, which missed its 2011 sales target by 2,329 units. General Motors hoped that the Volt would sell 10,000 units in 2011,...
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Nissan Invests $2 Billion Into Mexican Plant
While Honda and Mazda are just getting their respective footholds in Mexico (the two automakers are opening up respective assembly plants in Mexico), Nissan has had a long presence south of the...
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Review: A Week In A 2012 Nissan Leaf
Last May, the Nissan Leaf was the hottest thing on the green radar. Limited production and a long waiting list for the press meant that Nissan was lending out Leafs (Nissan tells us that is the...
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April Plug-In Car Sales: Toyota Prius Wins, Chevrolet Volt Takes Second,...
It was a good month for the Toyota Prius Plug-In, with the newest plug-in car outselling the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf in April. Pent-up demand and the desire to outdo your neighbors in Marin...
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Have You Been Dying For An Electrified Nissan NV That Vaguely Resembles A...
Nissan now has a zero emissions van that you’ll be able to buy in a couple years -if that’s what you’re into. We won’t judge. Either way, the company seems to be creating a brand identity for its...
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Plug-In Car Sales Breakdown: June 2012
Now that the dust has settled, it’s time to take a look at our favorite automotive urination competition, the epic battle between the Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf and the Toyota Prius Plug-In....
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Dead LEAFs and GE Chargers
The GE Wattstation killed my Leaf! That’s the story being reported by the New York Times as well as PlugInCars.com. As the tale goes, 11 Leaf owners have had their chargers “damaged” while charging...
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GE WattStations and LEAFs: We’ll fix it in software.
As we reported back on July 17th, there were reports of Nissan LEAFs “bricking” themselves while connected to GE’s WattStation home charging stations. Over the last 10 days, I have been on a number of...
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Nissan Leaf Gets The “Taurus G” Treatment
With sales of the third-generation Ford Taurus lagging, the Blue Oval decided that an entry-level variant would be just what was needed to help kickstart sales. Faced with slumping sales of their Leaf...
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London Looking To Alter Congestion Charge Exemptions By Lowering CO2 Threshold
The 100 grams/km CO2 output figure is an important one for motorists in the UK. Cars that can hit this magic number are exempt from London’s daily $16 Congestion Charge, which is levied upon motorists...
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QOTD: What Sound Should Hybrids And EVs Make Below 18 MPH?
NHTSA is proposing to make it mandatory that hybrid cars and EVs have the ability to emit a sound when traveling below 18 mph on electric power, as a means of warning pedestrians and cyclists. The...
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Made In America Nissan Leaf Now In Production
Nissan will make good on its $1.4 billion DOE loan, and finally start building the Leaf EV right here in America. In addition to the Leafs going off the assembly line, Nissan will also build the...
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QOTD: Is The EV Honeymoon Over?
Now that the Nissan Leaf is being made in Tennessee, Nissan has decided that a big price drop is in order. While the 2012 car retailed for $35,200, the 2013 Leaf starts at $28,800, thanks to a new...
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Ghosn Backtracks On “10 Percent By 2020″ EV Sales Claims
Carlos Ghosn’s assertion that “...electric vehicles could represent 10% of the global market in the next ten years, or 6 million vehicles…” may no longer be en vogue over at Renault, at least...
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The Truth About Battery Life
The drama circling around the New York Times test of the Tesla Model S doesn’t surprise me one bit. Why? Because I understand, perhaps at a deeper level than most of the motoring press, how batteries...
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Nissan Europe Ramping Up Local Leaf Production
With Nissan bringing Leaf production to Japan and the United States, the next stop on their localization train is Europe. The Sunderland, UK plant will begin in the spring, and along with European...
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Media Reporting Tesla Model S As Plug-In Sales Champion: O RLY?
It’s a headline you might have seen in the past couple days: “Tesla Model S outsells Nissan Leaf (or Chevrolet Volt, you pick)”. To the layman, the story is that this amazing car from an amazing...
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Tesla Wants To Build A Leaf Competitor
Elon Musk is turning his sights towards the Nissan Leaf. The Tesla Motors founder says his ultimate goal is for a sub-$40,000 car that’s better than Nissan’s EV, and he’s hoping to make that happen...
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