Renault Fluence ZE Charging Up I believe most people know this, but Nissan and Renault SA are, for the most part, the same company. When Nissan was on the ropes (to say the least) in the late 90s they entired into a tie-up with Renault SA, which lead to Renault...

Prius Gets into the EREV Game: finally gives out specs on its plug-in Prius, coming in early 2012 at the Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars. 5.2 kWh of lithium goodness = 12.5 miles of range, European testing indicates a overall 42% gain...

While on a call with shareholders on Monday (in between spinning why losing another 38.5 million dollars was really a good thing), Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the time to set aside fears of mounting competition and falling behind the cost structure of his peers by...

Inexplicable. That is really the only word for it. What was once one of the coolest looking prototype cars on the plant to be green-lit for production, and billed as ‘comfortably under $30,000,’ finally enabling the population at large the chance...

Long before the LEAF was even a glimmer in the American car buyers eye there was the Chevrolet Volt. First introduced at the 2007 NAIAS, as a cutting edge, sporty sedan with more space-age fiber than a spaceship, it has undergone some changes. Some for the better,...

Fair Disclaimer: This is not a LEAF article, or even about Nissan…but it is a big deal, so it gets a few hours as the top post on the site, before it gets bumped down. It is sink or swim time for GM. After not having a ‘new’ American based...

In what has been widely rumored for about…3 years, and was all but confirmed this past year at the New York auto show, the Mitsubishi i-MiEV will be landing on US shores to compete against the LEAF in the full battery electric vehicle market. The news was...

Toyota and Tesla announced today that they would be producing a small fleet of ‘all new’ RAV4 EVs for 2011, with the intention of going into full production in 2012 to compete alongside the likes of the LEAF. Toyota originally produced the RAV4 EV in...