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Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S sales are surging, leading to the highest ever monthly sales of electric cars for March 2013.

It’s part of the annual ablutions for the NISMO racecars in the Super GT circuit in Japan and today the cars were blessed in a ritual dating back thousands of years.

The Chevrolet Volt has badly beaten the Nissan Leaf in monthly sales by a margin of better than 2-to-1 over the first two months of 2013 but in March, the Leaf battled back – posting the best sales month ever for the all-electric Nissan since being introduced in late 2010.

A steeelcage match with no holds barred. Which Crossover, 3-row hybrid would you choose?

Nissan has recalled certain all-new NV high top commercial vans due to a transmission shifter problem, which may lead to vehicle roll away.

Nissan has donated a pair of high-tech manufacturing robots from their Canton, Mississippi plant to the Advanced Technologies program at Alcorn State University in Lorman, Mississippi.

An interview with Lisa Farrar, Senior Planner EV Marketing and Sales Strategy at Nissan, about the 2013 LEAF and its features. Nissan is highlighting the 2013 LEAF at the Denver Auto Show and emphasizing that it's now made in America.

China has many heavily polluted cities, a strong green technology industry, and may be the country where electric vehicle adoption takes off first.

We used to include the Nissan 370Z in our monthly rear wheel drive performance car sales piece but due to the extremely slow sales of the Z car, we dropped it from our monthly sales comparison. After receiving complaints from a handful of Japanese performance enthusiasts who thought that we should include the sporty Nissan, we wanted to take a look at just why the 370Z struggles to compete in the US market.

Nissan has received three more Energy Star awards and has saved enough energy to power an all-electric LEAF for 750 million miles.

According to Nissan, certain all-new 2013 Nissan Sentra models contain an improperly sealed fuel tank assembly, which may leak fuel and result in a fire.

The recall impacts Nissan's best-selling model, the 2013 Altima, as well as 2013 Sentra, LEAF, Pathfinder and Infinit JX35 vehicles.

Carlos Ghosn sees even more electric car in the future. He hints at the strategy at the Geneva Auto Show

Nissan and Microsoft teamed to hold a technology open house at Nissan headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee to encourage young women to enter the science and technology fields. It featured former Tennessee Titans cheerleader Jennifer Hill, now a process engineer at Nissan.

Land Rover is rolling out some competition for the Nissan Leaf and will unveil a new Electric Defender with zero emissions but adds something the LEAF will never do; extreme all-terrain capability.

The Taxi of Tomorrow, a purpose-built taxicab made by Nissan for New York City, is being prepared and tested prior to its Fall 2013 launch.

The talks of cold weather hurting electric vehicle driving range doesn’t seem to be having much impact on the sales of the Chevrolet Volt as the Volt once again comfortably outsold the Nissan Leaf in February 2013 – marking the second month in a row and the 12th time in the last 14 months where the electric Chevy was the top dog in American EV sales.

The folks at Turn 10 have just announced the details on the March Meguiar’s Car Pack for Forza Horizon with 6 new vehicles ranging from a compact rally car to an ultra high performance SUV storming on to the festival racing scene – along with an extra car for those Horizon gamers who bought into the season pass program when the game was released.

Saying that Nissan will have a pioneering race car showcasing electric technology, CEO Carlos Ghosn promises a return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2014.

Like many manufacturers over the past decade, Nissan will now focus its performance tweaks and package them in a line called NISMO.

Engineers at Nissan have created a group of robots called EPOROs to study how "fish thinking" could be applied to automotive safety systems. The robots recently visited the United States, along with their creator.

Nissan wins a coup over Toyota as Sydney's city government replaces a fleet of Prius's with 10 Nissan Leafs for use by city employees in duties around town.

A new advanced research center specializing in autonomous driving and connected cars has opened in Silicon Valley, soon to expand into other areas of inquiry.

The Nissan Leaf is the global passenger car sales leader for electric vehicles.

Among the debuts at the ongoing 2014 Chicago Auto Show is the 2014 Nissan GT-R Track Edition, a lightweight and high(er) performance version of the incredible Japanese supercar that will serve as the new trimline in the GT-R hierarchy – even though it will be available in very limited numbers.

The need for heel-toe shifting is going away as the world turns to new automated transmissions. We turned to a pro to give us some insight on what may become a lost art.

The new trend in manuals is the rev-matching stick shift. Offered in some of the hottest sports cars in the world, this technology might just save the manuals.

Nissan will give the Titan pickup truck a long overdue redesign in 2014. Although Nissan trails the GMC Sierra, Chevy Silverado, and Ford F-150 things are looking bright for Nissan.

The new American-built 2013 Nissan Leaf sports higher energy efficiency, including a highly efficient high end audio system from Bose.

The Chevrolet Volt started off 2013 in much better form than it did in 2012, moving almost twice as many units in January than did the Nissan Leaf as the electric Chevy looks to win a second straight EV sales title.