Nissan has issued a press release claiming the next-gen Leaf has become the best-selling all-electric vehicle in Europe with 18,000 registered deliveries and 37,000 pending orders since the model debuted in October of 2017. This not only reveals that the new Leaf is selling better in Europe than North America, where numbers total about 1/3 of the European sales, but…
Bobby Llewelyn, Electrek.co March 30, 2017 Our first ride in a fully autonomous car on public roads in the UK. Nissan very kindly arranged this experience, I’d particularly like to that Tetsuya Iijima, who is ‘not’ driving the car, he had been showing this vehicle to numerous journalists before we arrived but still showed great enthusiasm. Original article source
February 4th, 2017 by Zachary Shahan Clean Technica EV Volumes has just released its global plug-in car sales report for 2016. There are several exciting findings in the report, including a few that we’ve highlighted in recent weeks, but the most striking news for me was that the Tesla Model S and Nissan LEAF clocked in as the best-selling electric cars in…
Fred Lambert, January 7, 2017, Electrek.co Nissan’s keynote at CES in Las Vegas was kind of disappointing. The company was rumored to unveil its first long-range all-electric vehicle to compete against GM’s Chevy Bolt EV and Tesla’s Model 3. Instead, the company only confirmed that the vehicle is coming “in the near future”. It looks we will have to wait…
Uber to launch an all-electric fleet pilot project, starting with 20 Nissan LEAFs in London Fred Lambert, Electrek.co, August 31, 2016 Uber and Nissan announced today that they launched what they are referring to as “a new, major electric vehicle (EV) project”. The project starts with the trial of an all-electric fleet of 20 Nissan LEAFs in London starting in September….
Nissan may stop making its own electric car batteries It reportedly decided that it’s cheaper to buy EV power from someone else. Jon Fingas, engadget.com, 08.08.16 Nissan has long made its own electric car batteries thanks to Automotive Energy Supply, its team-up with NEC, but it appears to be having second thoughts. Sources speaking to both Nikkei and Reuters understand that…
Jim Standen, VEVC Member Salt Spring Island, BC As I finished my BCSEA Webinar, Silence in the Streets: The Future of Transport in BC and watched our Salt Spring Island (SSI) EV Celebration film again, I sat back and paused to reflect on how much progress we have made with the growth of fully electric vehicles ownership on SSI. We were an…
The Victoria EV Club and Tesla X Canada proudly presents… The VEVC Victoria Parade Convoy featuring Tesla X Canada Model X & Camping Trailer and Interviews with the EV Drivers!!! Interviews & Highlights: 2:20 James Locke, Tesla Model S 3:30 Lisa Locke, Nissan LEAF 5:30 Jim Hindson, Kia Soul EV 6:56 Martin & Susan Webb, Smart EV 7:30 Barry…
The Victoria Day Parade and the VEVC Lisa Locke, VEVC Editor It was a perfect day, not too hot and not too rainy, but just right for a parade into downtown Victoria, BC to celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday. The Victoria EV Club had 6 electric cars and one of them was towing a camping trailer! See above, a shiny new…
Stephen Edelstein, Green Car Reports May 18, 2016 50,000th Nissan LEAF Produced in UK Plant The Nissan Leaf, by far the world’s best-selling electric car, is built in three countries. Outside Nissan’s home market of Japan, Leafs are assembled in both Smyrna, Tennessee, and at Nissan’s Sunderland plant in the U.K. The U.K. plant recently reached a significant milestone, building…
