Renault Nissan is promising to have solid-state batteries ready for mass production in 2028, lowering battery costs by 65 per cent. Tesla may be the headline grabber as a pioneer of Electric Cars, but Nissan was delivering the LEAF when Elon Musk was still only bolting electric motors in to Lotus bodies. But things have […]
Electric Nissan Micra TEASED as sister car to the new electric Renault 5
Nissan teases the replacement for the Micra as an electric City Car, related to the upcoming electric Renault 5 reboot, and due in 2024. It’s received wisdom that the headlong dive into electric cars, and the banning of ICE cars, will see the demise of compact city cars because they will be just too expensive. […]
Nissan Juke Kiiro is a Limited Edition Juke celebrating a tie-in with ‘The Batman’
The Nissan Juke Kiiro is a Limited Edition Juke with cosmetic titivations and heralding a promotional tie-in with ‘The Batman’ film. If you’re going to have a limited edition model of a car to garner more sales, it helps to have a hook to hang it on. And Nissan has decided that the new Nissan […]
Nissan Newbird EV – the electric love child of the Nissan Bluebird and Nissan LEAF
The Nissan Newbird is a 1980s Nissan Bluebird with the heart of the electric Nissan LEAF, celebrating 35 years of Nissan in Sunderland. Now Nissan has woken up to the need for a bit more than the LEAF to drive it into an EV future, we’ve seen the Nissan Ariya priced ahead of arriving on […]
Electric Nissan Ariya goes on sale in the UK as Nissan finally delivers a new EV to market
The new electric Nissan Ariya goes on sale in the UK from £43k, as Nissan finally delivers a new EV to the market, 12 years after the Nissan LEAF arrived. Nissan has become synonymous with EVs ever since the electric Nissan LEAF arrived back in 2009, but despite that early lead in electric cars it’s […]
Now Nissan turns the Ariya in to a single seater electric concept – in a week of Nissan EV concepts
The Nissan Ariya Single Seater Concept is revealed in a week of Nissan Concepts, turning the Ariya into a 400bhp track car. This week, we’ve already seen four new Nissan EV Concepts, including what looks like a LEAF replacement. And now we get another – the Nissan Ariya Single Seater Concept. Although it seems likely all […]
Nissan Chill-Out Concept (LEAF replacement?), three more EV Concepts and Solid-State batteries too
Nissan to invest £13 billion in Nissan Ambition 30 Plan in the next five years to deliver solid-state batteries and 23 electrified models by 2030. It’s probably fair to say that Nissan has squandered the lead it had in EVs with the LEAF, but it now has a plan – Nissan Ambition 30 – to […]
You can now have an EV home charger lumped in with your Nissan LEAF finance
Nissan now offers the purchase and fitting of a home charger for your Nissan LEAF included in HP or PCP deals. We’ve long thought a good incentive to encourage car buyers to move to electric cars is to offer a free home charger fitted without the aggravation of doing it yourself. After all, for many, […]
New Nissan Townstar Van comes with a hint of Nissan Ariya styling
The new Nissan Townstar Van arrives with either a petrol engine or electric powertrain – replacing the e-NV200 – and new styling. Nissan’s electric e-NV200 van has been something of a sales success, but now it’s time for a new Nissan Van, with the Nissan Townstar Van arriving as a replacement and using the Renault […]
Nissan Z Proto turns in to the NEW Nissan Z – but it’s not for the UK
Nissan has taken last year’s Z Proto and turned it into the new Nissan Z, with a 400bhp twin-turbo V6. But it’s not coming to the UK. It’s actually almost 13 years since the current Nissan 370Z was revealed, and although it’s been facelifted a few times since it’s still much the same car that […]