Nissan LEAF

90% of all reader emails that come into the site start a little something like this, “…but I don’t live in California, when can I get my LEAF?” The other 10% are, “…enough with the news about California already!!! How about...

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...

Newsflash: Press Releases on the Internet (and in newspapers) can be wrong. San Diego and other DoE approved markets (are you listening LA?) will not receive their LEAFs faster than anyone else in the early delivery markets (California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona...

While speaking to a Nissan representative recently, a update on the ‘state of the reservation’ process was given. To date, Nissan has booked 16,300 handraisers. And while that number has certainly slowed from the initial rush of eager future EV owners...

Sexy as it is. According to Plug in America in their latest newsletter (which really isn’t that new, but it was older than the birth of this site) this glorious J1772 compliant level II charging station that is about 10 miles from Sacramento Airport in Woodside,...

Several years ago in California, state lawmakers single handedly ensured the success of hybrids all around the world by allowing single occupant hybrid drivers (at least the first 85,000 of them) to purchase special carpool stickers which enabled them to zip around...

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...

Late Friday night, (well, late for those of us living on the east coast and are eight years old) Nissan, through Qualtrics – who bill themselves as “the industry-leading provider of online Survey Software solutions” did just that. While the survey...

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...

The march to production continues. Nissan has begun sending quotes out to customers on their level II chargers, and fortunately there seems to be no surprises. Nissan and AeroVironment are jointing working together to provide these chargers and had previously estimated...