April 2012

First of 400 DC Quick Chargers arrive in Europe

April 15, 2012

Key transportation corridors to be initial installations Nissan Europe has announced the arrival of 400 free 400 volt DC quick chargers to be installed in major transportation corridors across Europe. We first wrote of Nissan’s intent to deliver these units last November. That post highlights additional information, such as the requirement to offer free or […]

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Nissan spills some future LEAF info

April 14, 2012
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From a webchat with a Nissan exec Mark Perry, Nissan’s Product Planning guy, participated in a webchat last week on Facebook to answer questions directly from participants. If you missed it (as we did) you can review the entire contents of that webchat here. We read through the hour long chat and pulled out some […]

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European LEAF sees changes ahead

April 12, 2012
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Redesign and lower price in its future According to Automotive News Europe, Nissan may redesign the LEAF and lower its price once production begins in Sunderland, England. In an interview with Colin Lawther, Nissan’s Vice President of Engineering in Europe, Lawther said “We’ll fine tune the car for the European customer from a design point […]

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Future proofing Nissan LEAF technology

April 10, 2012
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Nissan works directly with Intel One of the biggest challenges facing all automakers today is the fact that digital technological changes occur much more rapidly than automotive platform development changes. What we mean by this can be demonstrated by a quick look at the last several years and compare the developmental difference between the two […]

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Real world Nissan LEAF usage

April 8, 2012
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Does range matter? One of the questions that we get most often is how far will our LEAF go. The answer for us is that its maximum range is irrelevant, because we never drive it that far. But what about everyone else? That’s what we’re going to look at today. Nissan has uploaded a bunch […]

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Future LEAF

April 6, 2012

What does Nissan see in a future LEAF? It is always easier to predict the future when you can see the present clearly. With the introduction of the 2013 Nissan Altima, Nissan’s bread and butter car, we can look to some technologies that will ultimately make their way into the LEAF, as well as other […]

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Infiniti unveils LEAF based EV

April 5, 2012

LEAF based, but totally different Today Infiniti unveiled the new LE Concept. While dubbed a concept, it is very nearly a production vehicle. So the question is, how different is it from the LEAF? Quite a bit in some ways, in others… not so much. First – obviously, it is a sedan rather than a […]

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LEAF sales gain in March

April 3, 2012
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Nissan LEAF records 579 sales in March With the introduction of the Nissan LEAF to the remaining states this month, making it the first electric vehicle (EV) from a major manufacturer available in all 50 states, one might have expected the sales numbers to jump up dramatically this month. That is, unless one is familiar […]

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Hyundai partners up to produce electric car batteries

April 2, 2012

Hyundai signs agreement with Magna E-Car to produce batteries in Canada Hyundai Heavy Industries and Magna E-Car Systems signed an agreement today to develop and produce electric car batteries in Canada, according to The Korea Herald. The joint venture plans on producing up to 800,000 battery packs annually by 2020 with up to eight plants […]

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