Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The 2011 Nissan Leaf is the first practical, five-seat electric car—a full plug-in, running solely off grid electricity—that you have been able to buy since the. It’s been a long time coming. More than 80 years, in fact, since viable electric cars were offered to U.S. car buyers.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Nissan has begun development of its second electric commercial vehicle, the e-NT400. The company showed an e-NT400 concept in 2011, earlier post.) 2011 e-NT400 Atlas Concept. 2011 e-NT400 Atlas Concept. Click to enlarge. The e-NT400 is a light truck based on the European NT400 Cabstar, known as NT400 Atlas in Japan.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2013

The Renault-Nissan Alliance has sold its 100,000th electric car globally. Renault-Nissan has sold more zero-emission cars than all other major automakers combined, the automakers noted. The top markets for Nissan LEAF are the United States with about 30,000 units, Japan with 28,000 units, and Europe with 12,000 units.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 18, 2011

After several months of using a 2011 Chevy Volt and a 2011 Nissan Leaf as our sole family transport, we have a better understanding of both cars than we did in March, when I first wrote about how they compared. First to arrive at our West Sacramento home was a beautiful crystal red 2011 Volt.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2011

The 2011 Nissan Leaf is the first battery electric car from a major carmaker built in high volumes for almost a century. Its distinctive five-door design makes it as recognizable and iconic on the road as the Toyota Prius hybrid, yet distinctively a Nissan.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Starting with the Nissan Leaf for 2011 and including the Tesla Model S and. The EPA shows that hybrids and EVs are helping offset some of the truck-and-SUV shift. And we look at 13 years of Green Car Reports winners. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Almost two years ago, I took delivery of one of the very first 2011 Nissan Leafs to be imported into the United Kingdom. With its two-year anniversary approaching, and more than 32,000 miles on the clock, has our family's opinion of the Nissan Leaf changed? What has life with the car been like? And do we regret buying it?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2011

Modelled results of fuel consumption in 2011 Nissan Sentra. up to 54% increase in MPG) was achievable when compared to the model Nissan Sentra using a stock engine without fuel cutoff. The Nissan Sentra was the first vehicle chosen for the study, due to its competitive mileage and popularity. Source: Scuderi.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 23, 2011

The 2011 Nissan Versa combines two appealing features for the subcompact class: It’s bigger inside than many of its competitors, and it’s one of the lowest-priced cars on sale today.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

by volume from 1,529 units in December 2011. from the 7,671 units in 2011, giving it a dominant lead among the major OEMs in the nascent plug-in vehicles market for the year. Nissan North America, Inc. from the 2011 results. (NNA) from the 2011 results. For 2011, GM sold 2,595,717 vehicles, up 3.7%

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 7, 2021

First Generation Nissan LEAF. My first generation (Gen1) 2011 Nissan LEAF was almost 10 years old when I began to wonder if I should sell it. I started researching Nissan's second generation (Gen2) LEAF offerings—both new and "salvaged"—knowing that Nissan was in the business of selling new cars, not battery packs for old cars.

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AUGUST 26, 2013

Source: Nissan Click to enlarge. Nissan provided a list of the top 15 markets in the US for the Nissan LEAF battery-electric vehicle. Nissan LEAF sales in the United States are up by 335% year-over-year since the launch of the enhanced 2013 model in March. —Erik Gottfried, Nissan director of EV Sales and Marketing.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Back in March 2011, we took delivery of a U.K. spec Nissan Leaf as our principal family car. Since then, we’ve kept you up-to-date with the car’s long-term progress, including reports after driving 5,000 miles in it, after covering the 11,000 mile mark, and after one year of ownership.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

LeasePlan, a Dutch financial institution specializing in fleet management, and Nissan signed an agreement to cooperate in a European-wide project to launch the electric Nissan LEAF in 2011. LeasePlan is the first leasing company to offer the Nissan LEAF in Europe. The car will be mass-marketed globally from 2012 onwards.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 13, 2012

Just under a month ago, we reported a few cases in which owners of 2011 Nissan Leafs had noticed the first of twelve lights on their car’s battery capacity gauge had switched off, indicating a marked deterioration in battery capacity after just one year.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 8, 2011

Many comments are appearing on the internet taking enthusiastic positions for either the new 2011 Chevy Volt or the 2011 Nissan Leaf. It seems most readers are in one "camp" or the other.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

But the question that we keep hearing is: Which sells better, the 2011 Nissan Leaf or the 2011 Chevrolet Volt? The first business day of every month is when automakers release sales data for the previous month. Today, we got January's sales figures, which are an improvement over last January's.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2010

Nissan North America, Inc. NNA) set the US MSRP for the 2011 Nissan LEAF electric vehicle, which becomes available for purchase or lease at Nissan dealers in select markets in December and nationwide in 2011, at $32,780. Nissan will begin taking consumer reservations for the Nissan LEAF April 20.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2014

Taxi Electric, based in Amsterdam, will be the first private taxi company to add the new battery-electric Nissan e-NV200 taxi ( earlier post ) to its fleet. Taxi Electric operates a fleet of 25 Nissan LEAF vehicles and was the first private taxi service to switch to a fleet of 100% electric taxis in November 2011.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Nissan and Ecotricity, which operates Europe’s biggest and most comprehensive rapid charging network, the Electric Highway, called on the UK government to introduce official road signage for the UK’s growing number of standard and rapid EV charging points.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2013

Nissan has now sold 10,000 units of the battery-electric LEAF in Europe. The LEAF went on sale in Europe in March 2011 in a handful of markets and is now available across the region. In March, Nissan sold more than 1,000 LEAFs, said Nissan Europe Director of Electric Vehicle, Jean-Pierre Diernaz. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

Renault-Nissan Alliance will invest US$160 million in Korea to meet anticipated demand for the next-generation Nissan Rogue and to accelerate growth of Renault Samsung Motors. Production of Nissan Rogue crossover in Busan, Korea, will begin in 2014, with an annual capacity of about 80,000 units.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2009

The Nikkei reports that Nissan Motor Co. plans to begin selling hybrid vehicles based on its own technology in Japan in 2011. Nissan is likely to develop a low-cost, compact powertrain similar to those in Honda hybrids, with an electric motor to provide additional power to a constantly working engine.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

It’s now been well over a year since the first 2011 Nissan Leafs were delivered to customers in California, Oregon, Washington and Arizona. But after one year, how are early Nissan Leafs performing? According to anecdotal evidence from popular Nissan.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 31, 2011

On August 27th, Nissan North America opened up online reservations for the 2011 Nissan Leaf to Canadian buyers. Two hours later, Nissan had received more reservations than it had cars to sell, prompting some news outlets to report that the car was sold out.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

The Renault-Nissan Alliance has sold its 250,000th electric vehicle: a white Renault ZOE sold to a French engineer. The Alliance reached the milestone in early June, 4½ years after the launch of the Nissan LEAF. Nissan LEAF remains the best-selling electric vehicle yet, with more than 180,000 units sold. van, the SM3 Z.E.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 22, 2010

This week we drove a pre-production version of the 2011 Nissan Leaf, the first production electric car to be sold by a major automaker in more than 80 years. Unlike the range-extended electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt, which we drove last week, the 2011 Leaf is a pure battery electric vehicle. October has been quite a month.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2012

Nissan Motor Co., The Nissan Serena minivan has taken the Nº1 position in minivan sales in Japan for calendar year 2011, fiscal year 2011 and for the first half of calendar year 2012. launched the new Serena S-HYBRID in Japan. Serena S-HYBRID. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2011

The 2011 Chevrolet Volt has earned a 5-star overall vehicle score for safety as part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s New Car Assessment Program. The Volt is the first electric vehicle to do so; NHTSA has not yet tested the Nissan LEAF. Volt 20MPH Side Pole Impact.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 20, 2023

The 18-page declare comprises Ghosn’s plan to deliver Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi Motors underneath a brilliant alliance with Fiat Chrysler, which he says fueled considerations inside Nissan in early 2018 that he used to be in search of to manufacture the partnership irreversible.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

At the end of March this year, I took delivery of our very own 2011 Nissan Leaf. After the first week, we shared with you the good and bad side of Nissan’s first all-electric hatchback and even reported on a mammoth 520-mile two-day trek utilizing the U.K.’s ’s dealer network of D.C. rapid charging stations.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 22, 2011

The 2011 Nissan Altima is clearly more stylish than competitors like the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord, and the line includes both a coupe and a hybrid. While it’s not quite as roomy inside as some mid-size rivals, the 2011 Altima has held up decently since its 2007 debut.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

A little less than four years ago, the first 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car was delivered to eager buyer Olivier Chalouhi in San Francisco. Earlier this month, Nissan and its partner the French carmaker Renault delivered their 200,000th electric car. Oct 2013).'

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Green Car Reports

JULY 27, 2010

In other words, are you ready to drive a rechargeable car, something as mind-blowingly, reassuringly all-new as the 2011 Nissan Leaf? The automotive world is tilting on its axis, and electric cars are about to become reality. Have you bought in, drunk the Kool-Aid?

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The 2011 Nissan Leaf has now been for sale in certain U.S. markets for nine months -- just long enough for the accessories and aftermarket market to catch up and offer everything from custom wheels to body kits for Nissan’s first all-electric hatchback.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 2, 2015

The 2011 Nissan Leaf was the first modern battery-electric car to be offered in large numbers, and it still leads the field in terms of sales four years later. DON''T MISS: Nissan Leaf Sets New Annual Record For.'

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Drive Electric

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Nissan has unveiled four new EV concepts including the ‘Chill-Out’, the brand’s next-generation crossover EV concept. The Nissan Hang-Out concept has a completely flat floor and ‘theatre-like’ seating. The Nissan Hang-Out concept has a completely flat floor and ‘theatre-like’ seating. Nissan Chill Out Concept.

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