Green Car Reports

JANUARY 3, 2013

car buyers took home about 17,500 plug-in electric cars in 2011. In 2012, about 53,000 electric cars were likely sold--essentially triple the prior year's number. We know that at least 50,000 sales of plug-in cars will have been reported by Chevrolet, Ford, Honda, Nissan, and. A lot better.

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Plug-in 2012 Plug Electric Cars 165

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Plug-in electric car sales are growing in the U.S., The 2012 Nissan Leaf, however, is not doing so well. Despite being one of the earliest electric cars on the market, it's been outsold three to two this year by the Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid. What is it that carmakers do to boost.

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2012 Nissan Prius Volt 158

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 27, 2013

have probably never seen a Nissan Leaf electric car. But Silicon Valley is different--it''s crammed with plug-in electric cars, especially Teslas--and now it''s got its own electric-car mystery. Most people in the U.S.

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Nissan Electric Cars Cars 2012 130

Green Car Reports

APRIL 18, 2012

In the minds of many consumers, electric cars like the 2012 Nissan Leaf are over-priced, second-cars that are only capable of short trips around town. We’ve proven that sentiment wrong ourselves, covering just over 15,000 miles in a year in our 2011 Nissan Leaf.

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Nissan Miles Electric Cars 2011 167

Green Car Reports

MARCH 14, 2013

The 2013 Nissan Leaf electric car has some lofty sales goals associated with it--certainly higher than the 9,750 deliveries that Nissan averaged each year in 2011 and 2012. The new ad is a quick-cut.

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2013 Nissan Electric Cars Cars 125

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 1, 2012

With ongoing consumer concerns about battery longevity in hot climates, not to mention an all-new 2013 Leaf electric car just around the corner, NIssan has dropped the price of leasing a 2012 model.

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2012 Nissan Washington Dealers 111

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2013

The Nissan LEAF took the number two spot in the overall car sales chart for Norway in April, outpacing numerous combustion-engined cars. The LEAF is running in 5 th position overall in sales for 2013 to date in the country, and was number 13 overall in 2012. The LEAF posted 455 units, representing a 3.3%

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Norway Nissan Cars Installation 316

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2013

For this analysis, hybrid vehicles were defined by the following classifications: Alt Power — Electric Car; Alt Power — Hybrid Car; Alt Power — Hybrid Truck. Other findings on hybrid vehicle financing: In 2012, 3.1% The lease/loan ratio in 2012 for hybrid vehicles was 21.4% since 2011, going from 2.2% lease and 78.6%

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2012 Hybrid Market Financing 253

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid is the second best-selling plug-in electric car in the U.S. It outsells the Nissan Leaf and is bested only by the Chevrolet Volt. But if you view it as an electric car, it’s an odd duck indeed. The car’s plug-in hybrid powertrain adds a 4.4-kilowatt-hour

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Prius Plug-in 2012 Plug 126

Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2016

When it comes to thriving markets for electric cars, New Zealand doesn't exactly top the list. So what happens when a bestselling electric car is withdrawn from what is already a low-volume market? The Nissan Leaf is the bestselling electric car worldwide, but now Nissan will stop selling it from New Zealand.

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New Zealand Nissan Electric Cars Sale 60

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The time it takes an electric car to fully recharge from empty has always been the technology’s Achilles heel, with even a so-called rapid-charge taking half an hour for a car like the 2012 Nissan Leaf. As most consumers will tell you, they think electric cars should refuel as quickly as gasoline ones.

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Nissan Electric Cars Gasoline-Electric Cars 148

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

According to recent research, 95 percent of all trips could be made by electric cars -- but that doesn’t stop the majority of consumers from suffering electric car range anxiety.

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2012 Nissan Electric Cars All-Electric 117

Green Car Reports

APRIL 22, 2016

The Nissan Leaf may be the best-selling electric car in history, with more than 200,000 sales, but the Renault half of the Renault-Nissan Alliance can now trumpet a milestone of its own. The Renault Zoe electric car has passed 50,000 sales since the first one was delivered in December 2012.

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Nissan Electric Cars Cars 2012 60

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 4, 2012

If you own a 2012 Nissan Leaf alongside a regular gasoline car, the chances are you’ve already taken to driving your electric car as much as possible, using it for everything from the daily commute to weekend trips to the dump.

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2012 Nissan Gasoline-Electric Gasoline 110

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 10, 2013

If 2011 was the year of overoptimism for electric-car sales, and 2012 was Sophomore Slump after the inevitable shortfall, will 2013 be the year of realism? That really depends on what the world's leading electric-car maker, Nissan, sells this year. Let's recap.

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Nissan Electric Cars Sale GM 105

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

What's the disadvantage to the bright, air-conditioning friendly, heat-reflecting, inviting interior of the 2012 Nissan Leaf electric car? One blogger on Nissan Leaf. That being the case, what's the opposite? Dirt, that's what.

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2012 Nissan Clean Cleaning 105

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.;

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Michigan 2012 Ford Lithium Ion 363

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The battle of low-cost electric car leases has expanded: Ford is now enticing new customers to its 2013 Ford Focus Electric with offers as low as $199 per month. Nissan has attracted new customers with 24- and 36-month leases for its Leaf electric car at a base price of $199/month.

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Nissan Ford 2012 Low Cost 147

Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2011

While Nissan killed the Altima Hybrid, its sole U.S. hybrid vehicle, for 2012, the company has made a number of important upgrades to its Leaf battery electric car. For 2012, the Nissan Leaf will include as standard heated front and rear seats, plus heated steering wheel and outside mirrors.

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Altima Hybrid 2012 Nissan Standards 92

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 9, 2012

If you're looking to reduce your driving costs, should you buy an electric car? It's a question many have asked in the past, and the results tend to vary depending on the electric car selected, and the cost of driving in your area. As gasoline prices hit $5 per gallon in some areas of California recently, the L.A.

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Electric Cars 2012 Nissan Gasoline-Electric 124

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2013

Nissan ZEOD RC. Nissan unveiled the ZEOD RC (Zero Emission On Demand Racing Car)—an electric Le Mans prototype racing car intended to reach speeds of more than 300 km/h (186 mph) at the Le Mans 24 Hours race in 2014, where it will makes its debut. Nissan ZEOD RC. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Nissan 2014 Electric Electrical 249

Green Car Reports

APRIL 24, 2018

Infiniti has promised to build electric cars in fits and starts since 2012—but we're still waiting.

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Infinity Electric Cars Detroit 2012 89

Green Car Reports

JULY 2, 2012

How far can your electric car travel before you need a recharge? For most electric car owners, that question is answered with a mixture of (usually inaccurate) on-board computer software and a good dose of past-experience behind the wheel of his or her car.

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Nissan 2012 Range Recharge 113

Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2012

With gasoline prices on the increase, many consumers are looking to buy a hybrid or plug-in hybrid as their next car in order to save gas and money.

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2012 Prius Chevrolet Volt 116

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Price increases on electric cars seem to be the rule these days. First the 2012 Nissan Leaf got a $2,420 increase (for more standard equipment), then the 2012 Chevrolet Volt got a price reduction that actually proved to be an increase in disguise (comparing similarly equipped models).

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Mitsubishi 2012 Price Electric Cars 80

Green Car Reports

JUNE 5, 2012

The low sales of the Nissan Leaf electric car have been much discussed in the media--just as those of the Chevy Volt were until it began to log respectable sales numbers over the last few months.

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Nissan 2012 Volt Buy 131

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Rapid electric car charging stations for cars like the 2012 Nissan Leaf and 2012 Mitsubishi i may soon become a lot more common in the U.S. thanks to a new rapid charging station Nissan says it will launch in the U.S. by early 2012.

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Mitsubishi Nissan Charging 2012 125

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Dates and cities have been announced for the "Zero Emission Tour" that will introduce the 2012 Nissan Leaf hatchback electric car to potential buyers in the U.S. The car won't be sold nationwide for more than two years. Instead, it will be offered where Nissan has negotiated agreements with electric.

2012 64

2012 Nissan Electric Cars Cars 64

All Cars Electric

JULY 19, 2011

The 2012 Nissan Leaf electric car will include more standard equipment, but it will carry a higher price tag as well. Announcing the updates for the second Leaf model year, Nissan said today it will expand U.S. The 2012 model of the first battery-electric vehicle sold in the U.S.

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2012 Nissan Standards Price 73

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Toyota might be the world’s largest hybrid automaker, but that isn’t stopping rival Japanese automaker Nissan from trying to become the world leader in hybrid electric car transporter ships. Called the.

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Nissan Transportation Hybrid 2012 120

Green Car Reports

MARCH 3, 2014

new-car sales last month, but one electric car racked up record February sales: the Nissan Leaf. Leaf sales of 1,425 cars in February were a record for the month, more than double the 2013 total of 653 February sales (the numbers for 2012 and 2011 were 478 and 67, respectively).

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Sale Electric Cars Plug-in Volt 156

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It's the last piece of information on the new and updated 2013 Nissan Leaf electric car that everyone's been waiting for: its range. The projected number, Nissan says, is 75 miles--but that shouldn't be compared to the 73-mile range of the 2011 and 2012 Leaf models.

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2013 EPA Nissan Miles 145

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

For many months, Nissan has said it would sell 20,000 Leaf electric cars in the U.S. Sales rates didn't seem to support that, and now Nissan has conceded that it won't happen. by next March. CEO Carlos Ghosn said that number "would not be reached," in an interview on Bloomberg TV in Mexico City yesterday.

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Nissan Sale 2012 Mexico 98

Green Car Reports

APRIL 30, 2012

California and the Pacific Northwest may be the undisputed capital of electric cars in the U.S., Last week, Nissan Europe announced it had sold 1,000 of its Leaf electric cars in just six months in the nation. In February, Leaf sales accounted for nearly 2 percent of Norway’s new car.

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Norway Nissan 2012 Europe 119

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

An independent test of Nissan LEAF battery capacity and range loss organized by Inside EV writer and LEAF owner Tony Williams has found significant battery capacity loss—and therefore range loss—in the EVs. The Nissan LEAF electric car was introduced to the world as a mass production vehicle during December 2010.

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Nissan Phoenix Batteries Battery 244

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Nissan Motor Co., and Miyazaki Prefecture signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to initiate a joint-study to implement all the necessary conditions for the mass introduction of electric vehicles, primarily focused on the following areas: Educational program. —Toshiyuki Shiga, Nissan Chief Operating Officer.

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Nissan United States Japan 2010 199

Green Car Reports

JUNE 11, 2013

Last month, the Nissan Leaf passed the Chevrolet Volt to take this year''s top spot among plug-in electric cars for sale. It announced that it will offer $5,000 cash back on remaining 2012 Volt range-extended electric cars, and $4,000 on 2013 models, according to Chevrolet spokespeople quoted yesterday.

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Volt Electric Cars Chevrolet Price 136