Nissan Leaf News

SimCity was released in 1989 when I was a younger fellow and I quickly became an addict.

This year the Nissan introduced a new base model to the 2013 Nissan Leaf in Lawrence and it comes with a price drop of from the cheapest 2012 Nissan Leaf model.

Consumers who buy the electricity-powered Nissan Leaf or Ford Focus also can buy a $10,000 solar-panel system to juice it up from Namaste Solar Electric Inc.

An entry-level Infiniti crossover wearing QX30 badges may soon slot below the EX in the automaker's lineup of SUVs.

While Nissan is expanding the single-charge range on its all-electric Leaf , the Japanese automaker is also working on shortening the distance between publicly accessible quick-charge stations.

Frequent readers of this blog will know that I am enormously skeptical of most fuel and efficiency numbers for electric vehicles.

The Cloverdale Rodeo protester who filmed another woman in the throes of a racist rant before she was allegedly beaten up and then posted it on YouTube has done this sort of thing before.

Electric vehicle roundup: 1) The tiny plug-in car market segment will have two entrants with lease options at $199 per month - the Chevrolet Spark and the Nissan Leaf - as the automakers appear willing to take some losses to keep the segment alive and kicking.

Accustomed to their gas-guzzling companions, many Americans are hesitant to buy an electric or hybrid vehicle.

When the 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV goes on sale this summer, it will carry an MSRP of $27,495 including $810 destination and before government credits and rebates.

While we had been told it was coming in 2014 , the exact release date of the production version of the Infiniti LE concept might just might hinge on something you can't see and that the Japanese automaker can't control: wireless charging infrastructure.

Sometime in the next few weeks, the 100,000th plug-in electric car will be sold in the U.S. But they're still mostly a mystery to the average new-car buyer, and there are a few key principles that get shared over and over again.

Californians like their electric vehicles , but a significant minority do wish their cars could go farther without having to be plugged in .

John is Senior Editor for High Gear Media. In addition to news coverage and new car reviews, John creates and oversees all editorial for High Gear's... More There are lots of very good plug-in electric cars for sale now, and some of them are starting to show up on used-car lots.

To entice drivers to try electric-powered cars, auto makers are lowering the price of entry to the zero-emission lifestyle.

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Infiniti has plans for a Nissan LEAF-based luxury electric vehicle of its own but is holding off until inductive charging becomes more prevalent.

John is Senior Editor for High Gear Media. In addition to news coverage and new car reviews, John creates and oversees all editorial for High Gear's... More Sometime yesterday or today, the 100,000th modern plug-in electric car was delivered to a buyer somewhere in the U.S. But any electric-car buyer taking delivery on either day can be forgiven ... (more)

John is Senior Editor for High Gear Media. In addition to news coverage and new car reviews, John creates and oversees all editorial for High Gear's... More Making a battery for an electric car is more like assembling microelectronics than the kind of auto-plant scenes we think of, involving huge steel stamping presses and battalions of automated ... (more)

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