Nissan has confirmed it will build both the new Qashqai and the X-Trail SUV at its Sunderland plant thanks to government “support and assurances”. The Japanese company’s commitment to Britain’s biggest car plant had been in doubt following the EU referendum. Nissan’s decision is the first major development for the car industry since the Brexit …
The Renault-Nissan Alliance will provide a fleet of 50 all-electric vehicles as the official passenger-car provider for the United Nation’s COP22 Climate Conference in Marrakech, Morocco. The fully electric fleet will shuttle delegates. More than 25,000 participants from 195 countries are expected to attend the annual climate summit during Nov. 7-18. It marks the second …
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Nissan plans electric sports car and crossover vehicle An article in this weeks Auto Express includes an interview with Nissan Senior vice-president Shiro Nakamura who acknowledged that a new modular platform currently under development will be able to adopt conventional and alternative powertrains – and that this will be key to Nissan’s plan to broaden its EV line-up. …
We uncovered a new and relatively informative website. The European Commissions view of alternative vehicles statistics at the European Alternative Fuels Observatory (EAFO) website. Eafo.eu The site details sales of BEV and PHEV that Battery and Plug-In Hybrid electric cars by country by year and seems to be updated monthly. The site is an European …
The BBC Report that Nissan has suspended the functions of an app that could have been used to hack its Leaf electric cars. The action follows the revelation that a flaw with the software meant that an attacker could run down the battery of a target’s car and see data about its recent journeys. The …
Nissan UK has just announced plans to invest £26.5m in its production of electric vehicle batteries in Sunderland. These will be used in the next generation Leaf. The announcement may end rumors that Nissan would outsource production of lithium-ion cells and perhaps even battery packs for the next Leaf to giant Korean maker LG Chem. …
Nissan announced a partnership with Enel, Europe’s second largest power company for installed capacity, to develop a new “Vehicle-to-Grid” initiative to use, store and return to the grid electricity in excess from Nissan’s electric vehicles. The initiative appears to be a revival of Nissan’s “LEAF to Home” program, which appears to have been abandoned years …
This month is the 5th year since Nissan launched the all electric Leaf in December 2010. Since then the Leaf has become the world’s best selling electric car by far. Nissan estimate that Leaf owners have driven a collective 2 billion KM or 1.2 B miles and saved over 300,000 tons of CO2. The 200,000 …
The 2016 Nissan Leaf will be available with a 30KWh battery pack offering a claimed 150 miles of driving. The current 24KWh option remains. This represents a 25% increase in the pack and will increase range by the same amount.
At this weeks Tokyo motor show, Nissan revealed a new concept car, the IDS. This gives us a glimpse of the future and possible new leaf at some point. The Nissan IDS concept includes wireless inductive charging, a host of intelligent driving tools and rather interesting styling.
