Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

After lavish launch events around the world, the 2018 Nissan Leaf electric car will go on sale next month in Japan and early next year in North America. The second generation of the world's best-selling electric car, however, faces a very different landscape than did its predecessor in December 2010.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 26, 2012

On March 28, 2011, I took delivery of a European-specification 2011 Nissan Leaf. Yesterday, a few days short of our 1-year anniversary with the car, its odometer passed the 15,000 mile mark. But what have we learned about Nissan’s first electric car after living with it daily for a year?

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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.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

Data: Nissan. The battery-electric Nissan LEAF has topped its own European sales record with a 33% increase in European sales in 2014 over the previous year, taking 26% of the burgeoning electric car market with 14,658 sales out of a total 56,393, according to figures from Nissan. Data: Nissan.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 7, 2024

For example, I had a bad experience with a used 2011 Nissan LEAF I bought when the EV bug first bit me. It turned out that the early Nissan LEAF batteries weren’t very good at handling the. For early EV adopters on a budget, life could sometimes be very hard. appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

More than 80 years, in fact, since viable electric cars were offered to U.S. car buyers. 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.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This evening, the 2018 Nissan Leaf electric car will make its long-awaited debut at events in Tokyo, Las Vegas, and elsewhere around the world. The Leaf remains the world's highest-volume electric car, with more than 280,000 of the first-generation cars delivered since December 2011 (112,000 of those in the U.S.).

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 24, 2013

With more than a dozen plug-in cars on the market in California, this was the year we decided it was time to trade up--and swap one electric car for another. Since March 2011, our household fleet has consisted of a 2011 Nissan Leaf and a 2011 Chevrolet Volt.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Batteries are the key component in building practical electric cars. And for its first all-electric Leaf in 2011, Nissan developed its own proprietary lithium-ion battery pack--even planning and setting up its own assembly facilities to build them.

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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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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The reviews of the Nissan Leaf electric car have already been posted, and one GreenCarReports writer even owns a Leaf, but this isn't going to be your standard review with driving impressions. It's no secret that I'm not exactly a green-car kind of guy.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 27, 2018

The town of Namie, in eastern Japan, was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of 2011, and has struggled to recover from the devastation of that day. Carmaker Nissan and an arm of the giant trading company.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 30, 2017

That also applies, in some cases, to some of the first modern electric cars, and in particular the Nissan Leaf. DON'T MISS: Nissan Leaf leases can. When you're pioneering new automotive technology, it can be challenging and sometimes costly. Just ask anyone who owned an early turbocharged sport sedan, for instance.

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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

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.

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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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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.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Don’t Sleep On This Value Proposition The Nissan Leaf was the world’s best-selling electric vehicle from when it was introduced in 2011, until it was recently passed by the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. Nissan offers two versions of the 2024 Leaf, the S and SV Plus, the latter of which we drove recently through Southern California.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The 2011 Nissan Leaf all-electric car has been designated as Europe's 2011 Car of the Year, according to reports in Autocar and other media outlets. While the Leaf won our GreenCarReports 2011 Best Car To Buy award, the bulk of similar U.S.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 28, 2011

On August 31, 2010, Nissan opened the ordering process for its 2011 Leaf, and over the follow months has gradually extended the initial markets on the West Coast and Tennessee to include a wider geography. The ordering process for the 2011 Nissan Leaf is unlike that for almost any previous new car.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Avis Europe has partnered with the Renault-Nissan Alliance to offer electric cars to its customers from 2011. We are delighted to sign this important partnership with Renault to offer electric vehicles as part of our green fleet, which is an increasingly central part of our customer offering. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2011

Despite media attempts to conjure a "sales battle" between the 2011 Chevy Volt and the 2011 Nissan Leaf, both companies are selling every car they can manage to get into the showrooms. Now Chevrolet has released its first look at who is actually buying its Volt range-extended electric cars.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The 2011 Nissan Leaf was the first mass-priced modern electric car when it launched in December 2010. Nissan has since sold close to a quarter of a million Leafs, and together with its alliance partner Renault it has now sold more than 350,000 all-electric vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 5, 2013

Last year, we brought you the story of one Nissan Leaf owner really putting his car to the test, as his 130-mile daily commute had racked up 36,000 miles in just 11 months of ownership.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 27, 2018

When the first-generation Nissan Leaf debuted in 2011, it quickly became the best-selling electric car in history, with no real competition. By the time the most recent version debuted in 2017, it was nearly outdated before it left dealers’ lots due to a shorter range than rivals from Tesla and Chevrolet.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 31, 2012

After the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011, Japanese automakers Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi have all been working on technology designed to let electric cars provide emergency backup power.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Can love for an electric car stand the test of time? to take delivery of a 2011 Nissan Leaf, way back in December 2010. The car is holding. Olivier Chalouhi was the first person in the U.S. Now that he''s had his black Leaf SL for nearly three years, does it still tug at his heartstrings?

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last year, the electric-car revolution became real. market during 2011. The relevant figures: Nissan sold 954 Leafs, for a 2011 total of 9,674, and. After a late-Nineties false start, much gnashing of teeth, and years of promises, carmakers delivered more than 17,000 plug-in vehicles in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2011

The Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf earned the highest safety ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in the first US crash test evaluations of plug-in electric cars. The addition of the 2 electric cars brings to 80 the number of award winners so far for 2011, including 7 hybrid models.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 22, 2010

All the different incentives to purchase electric cars can be confusing. But if all the stars align and you're the lucky person who can take advantage of multiple incentives, there’s a slim chance that you could buy a brand-new 2011 Nissan Leaf for a mere $12,300.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Now, the world -- or at least Nissan -- is giving you something in return: your very first 2011 Nissan Leaf. O Canada, you've given the world so much: Keanu Reeves, Celine Dion, Pamela Anderson Lee Ritchie Salomon, poutine.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The first Nissan Leaf electric car was delivered five years ago this month, in December 2010. Over the five years since then, the Leaf has become by ar the best-selling electric car in history. In January 2016, Nissan plans to solidify that claim by achieving an important milestone.

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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. Each sales increase marks a new milestone for electric-car adoption, but how do all of those Leafs fare after a few years of daily use?

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It's well known by now that the used-car prices of low-range electric cars are low. Any 2011 through 2016 electric car not made by Tesla is likely to be cheap on a used-car lot due to worries about battery degradation and its effect on range.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 27, 2017

The report that Toyota is planning an electric car with a solid-state battery for 2022 has led some fans and advocates to suggest huge new leaps in electric cars are imminent. The 2011 Nissan Leaf had an EPA-rated range of 75 miles combined; the comparable figure for a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV is 238 miles.

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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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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car is clearly one of the most revolutionary vehicles to be sold in the U.S. It's a first battery electric car that relies solely on plugging into grid electricity for its the energy that powers it. in many years.

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