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Nissan announces 2013 LEAF specifications

January 9, 2013
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Lower priced LEAF to be available Let me warn you now – if you want to learn about the changes to the 2013 LEAF you might as well grab a cup of coffee (or perhaps a stronger beverage of your choosing), and make yourself comfortable. We’re going to be here for awhile. First up – [...]

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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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Nissan LEAF Informational Videos

March 19, 2012
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All you ever wanted to know about the Nissan LEAF – and more… Recently we were wandering around in the My Nissan LEAF forum and saw that someone was looking for the Nissan DVD that explains the operation of various features on the LEAF. This DVD was provided for all Nissan products (Nissan referred to [...]

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Batman just about had it right

March 13, 2012
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At least one of them did Nissan has joined forces with some of the biggest names in racing to cooperate on one of the most radical race car designs that we have seen for quite some time – the Nissan DeltaWing. So what does this have to do with electric vehicles (EVs)? Stay tuned. A [...]

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LEAF is not Nissan’s only green transportation

January 31, 2012
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Solar panels help reduce emissions on Nissan’s newest transport ship Nissan not only provides zero emission transport for the masses, they also provide reduced emission car carriers to deliver them. Nissan’s Nichioh Maru, nicknamed RORO (as in Roll On, Roll Off – watch the video and you’ll understand) was just introduced as the first energy [...]

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Interior EV sounds in your future?

January 25, 2012
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Perhaps like a 1963 E-type Jaguar? In our web wanderings, we discovered that a British sound engineer is producing artificial sounds for electric vehicles (EVs). The difference between these sounds and the current exterior vehicle sound for pedestrians, is that these sounds are designed for interior reproduction. One thing that we appreciate about the LEAF [...]

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Infiniti to debut range extended electric sports car in Geneva

January 10, 2012
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First mid-ship Infiniti to be range extended EV? This teaser image released by Infiniti today is of the range-extended EV (otherwise known as a plug-in hybrid) to be introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2012. If we understood the video correctly, the range extender will be a 1.2 liter gasoline engine. No word [...]

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A big week for Nissan in Detroit

January 9, 2012
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North American International Auto Show to see several Nissan debuts This week is a big week for the automobile industry as the annual North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) kicks off in Detroit. With the slow economy of the last few of years, Nissan corporation has taken a lower profile and actually elected to not [...]

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International Hot Rod Association adds rules for EVs

December 27, 2011
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IHRA to promote EV drag racing The International Hot Rod Association (IHRA), the second largest drag racing sanctioning body in the United States, and the largest in Canada, has accepted electric cars and motorcycles into their ranks, according to the National Electric Drag Racing Association. The National Hot Rod Association had created classes for electric [...]

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