Nissan LEAF becomes the first 100 percent electric vehicle to achieve five-star safety rating from EuroNCAP. Read More… The electric Nissan has already been awarded as Top Safety Pick by IIHs, which is the American equivalent of the NCAP. The LEAF can put this besides the other magnificent awards it’s snatched so far, like European [...]

Nissan releases a video of the LEAF Nismo RC’s shakedown, a car that is ought to spearhead Nissan’s future electric motorsport plans. There is still a long way ahead of them to get there. The current electric cars are out of juice very quickly under normal driving conditions, let alone in a race. And don’t [...]

So Chevy Volt snatched the Green Car award at the New York show, but Nissan LEAF was awarded 2011 World Car of the Year to balance things out. Read More… The electric LEAF which already has European Car of the Year award in the bag, beat BMW 5-Series and the Audi A8 for the top [...]

In spite of its ridiculous, simpleton look, this Nissan LEAF NISMO RC is actually a very serious electric race car. The RC stands for Racing Competition. Read More… Set for debut at the 2010 2011 New York International Auto Show on April 20th, this LEAF RC has been designed to discover possibilities for Nissan’s Green [...]

During the EVER Monaco expo Nissan announced official pricing for the LEAF electric car in France, and it starts at EUR 30,990, with 5 grand incentive from the French government. Read More… Principality of Monaco is a huge fan of electric cars and green motoring, so it was the perfect place for Nissan who is [...]

As we have reported before, at 2011 Tokyo Auto Salon Nissan will present a number of special models based on the current range, including this cool Nissan LEAF equipped with a heavy sporty body kit. Now we want to take a closer look at this car, and indeed some other models to be revealed at [...]

Telenor Connexion offers a remote control system that allows the owners to operate the car’s features or check the battery level and so on via private mobile networks, using a mobile phone or PC. It will connect the car to Nissan’s CARWINGS Data Center and will enable electric vehicle battery state monitoring, usage history and [...]

Most people are not yet aware of the new path that the automotive worlds has taken toward going electric, so they need  some encouragement to get to know this thing and eventually buy them! To be honest its hard to sell the current EVs based on the looks, performance and range, so the manufacturers try [...]

Maybe it’s just a coincident, but as GM released a video of Chevrolet Volt being built, Nissan too came up with a video of their LEAF electric vehicle in the making! But they are Japanese and like this sort of things, so their film is longer at 5 minutes. And in it they show you [...]

The ugly but somehow charming Nissan LEAF EV has been awarded 2011 European Car of the Year, to become the first ever all-electric vehicle in the 47-year history of EuroCoty to win the title. The main reason the jury chose the LEAF was its conventional features, despite of its futuristic zero-emission drivetrain. And that’s the [...]

No, you haven’t been misinformed! Nissan LEAF is an all electric car. So what’s that MPG rating you might ask? Well, that’s the MPG equivalent compared to a normal car, considering the LEAF’s range and electric cost. According to EPA, 33.7kW-hrs is equivalent to one gallon of fuel, so when you do the math you [...]

After receiving a very warm welcome from both press and potential customers, Nissan has started the production of this futuristic 100 percent electric vehicle LEAF at their Oppama facility in Japan. Nissan has already booked thousands of orders for this little EV, but sales won’t commence until December in Japan and the United States, and [...]

We can’t believe Ben Collins gave up the Stig job to test drive an electric car for a newspaper! He might make a bit more money in his new careers which apart from test driving cars also includes publishing and co-presenting the Fifth Gear show, but Stig, that was something else! I don’t know, maybe [...]

Nissan ‘s new ad for the LEAF electric car is kinda funny! They wanted to deliver the message that this car has no emissions, which means it won’t warm up the globe, which means eventually it saves polar bears. They could just say it, but to make sure even dumb people understand it, they show [...]

Nissan announced that the brand-new all-electric LEAF is now available for order in Britain starting from £23,990 (including £5,000 government incentive). That sounds like a bargain in comparison to Mitsubishi i-MiEV which starts from £28,990 (before incentives), specially as the LEAF, unlike the i-MiEV, is a proper car and not just a silly urban commuter! [...]