LEAF Availability

Drive a LEAF – Round Two

July 13, 2011

Nissan offers LEAF consumer drives again With the completion of Nissan’s first round of consumer LEAF drive events, which ran from October 2010 through March 2011, Nissan found about 50,000 consumers interested in driving this new means of transportation. As interest in electric vehicles (EVs) continues to grow, Nissan has launched round two of the [...]

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U.S. LEAF sales hit 1,708 in June

July 2, 2011

LEAF sales climb while Volt’s languish Nissan LEAF sales got off to an extremely slow start this year. Due to the all-new nature of the LEAF – both technology and platform – Nissan wanted to take their time ramping up production. This way when the vehicles were produced in volume, they were produced with quality. [...]

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LEAF and EV news

June 18, 2011

This weeks updates LEAF vs. Volt – Real world We generally don’t send our readers off to other blogs, but there is a real-world LEAF and Volt comparison article written by a person that actually owns one of each. The article is a decent representation of several months ownership and a combined 7,000 miles of [...]

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More EV news

June 5, 2011

Nissan reduces LEAF projected sales for 2011 Al Castignetti, Nissan’s vice president of U.S. Sales confirmed that sales may reach only half of the projected 20,000 units that Nissan had hoped to sell in 2011. Sales may only total 10,000 to 12,000 by year end. Nissan faced production issues, natural disasters, and a totally new [...]

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Chevy plans to place Volt into service as demo vehicles

May 2, 2011

Volt’s to go to dealers, not customers General Motors has decided to take a different tack with the Chevrolet Volt – Halo car. A “halo car” is one that will draw consumers in, even those that have no intention of purchasing one, just to check it out. Chevrolet has determined that almost nine of ten [...]

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It was one year ago today…

April 20, 2011

That Nissan brought about the dawn of a new era in automobiles April 20, 2010 will be remembered by electric vehicle (EV) enthusiasts everywhere as the day that changed the future of the automobile. Too melodramatic you say? Think about it. Nissan has ushered in a sea change in this industry that has been too [...]

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Latest update on Nissan’s status in Japan

March 15, 2011

Nissan among many in Japan with more questions than answers We will tell you what we know without adding speculation, as real information alone is sketchy enough at the moment. With the advent of the earthquake/tsunami, Nissan immediately shutdown all of their manufacturing facilities in Japan. No factory personnel were reported injured initially. All Nissan Americas [...]

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One step closer

February 18, 2011

SDG&E makes contact On February 16, San Diego Gas & Electric contacted us to let us know that we would be included in their rate program for electric car owners. A second meter will be added, and we will be offered their “cheapest energy” that they will offer to any of their customers. This is [...]

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Mark Perry interview provides production info

February 17, 2011

Almost 4,000 LEAFs produced to date according to Perry In an interview with treehugger Radio, Nissan’s Mark Perry, Director of Product Planning and Advanced Technology, said “…we’ve built about three, almost four thousand LEAFs globally already…”, which fits in very close to our production speculation of February 8. We guessed that 300 LEAFs were built [...]

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LEAF arrives in Hawaii

February 1, 2011

LEAF lands in last of seven initial rollout states The first Nissan LEAF was delivered in the state of Hawaii. This LEAF was delivered at New City Nissan in Honolulu on the island of Oahu. There are a total of seven Nissan dealerships spread throughout the island chain, and the state has made a strong effort [...]

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