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Nissan

Nissan is one of the world's fastest-growing automakers with a full product line. The company makes nearly every vehicle sold in the U.S. in its American plants. This page publishes the latest news and breaking stories on Nissan, including its iconic Nissan Leaf battery electric car.

By Nicolas Zart on June 3, 2012 - 11:31AM
The idea of charging your car and using the battery pack as electricity storage for future use is not new and as the industry matures, it brings this to a reality with V2H.
By David Herron on May 26, 2012 - 4:42PM
Both GM and Nissan claims the Toyota Prius is the most-often-traded-in car for the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, citing this factoid as a success of their electric car programs, but the real reason appears to be stickers for solo drivers to drive in California's HOV lanes.
By Keith Griffin on May 26, 2012 - 11:05AM
By Keith Griffin on May 26, 2012 - 10:53AM
Changing the number two selling car in the U.S. is a huge gamble, but Nissan has pulled off a stunning success with the all-new 2013 Nissan Altima.
By Denis Flierl on May 25, 2012 - 12:29PM
Nissan has devised an innovative new tire-inflation system which lets you know when the PSI in your tires is at the right point, and will debut on the 2013 Altima.
By Denis Flierl on May 25, 2012 - 9:51AM
Nissan wrapped up its crowd-sourced Project 370Z and released a new video showing the dyno-tune session and interior improvements.
By David Herron on May 24, 2012 - 9:55PM
Nissan's second electric vehicle, the all-electric e-NV200 variant of the popular NV200 commercial van, will go into production in Nissan's Barcelona factory.
By Nicolas Zart on May 23, 2012 - 1:31PM
You might know by now that nothing in California is like the rest of the country. Things are done differently, people live and think differently so it should come as no surprise than even technology, bleeding edge early electric car, EV adopters drive differently.
By David Herron on May 21, 2012 - 4:32PM
A year before it's slated to launch to go into production, the Nissan e-NV200 takes the Environment Award at the 2012 Fleet World Honours.
By David Herron on May 18, 2012 - 9:17PM
At a public hearing today convened by California Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett to discuss Electric Vehicle Deployment, representatives of GM and Nissan sparred over electric car fast charging standards.
By Nicolas Zart on May 18, 2012 - 2:17PM
EVS is always an interesting event to participate in. Nowhere will you see more engaged companies, startups and engineers iron out the kinks of this new electric drive paradigm. GM, BMW, Lotus, Qualcomm, Siemens, AC Propulsion all share the floor, each bringing their unique solutions and paving the way forward.
By Denis Flierl on May 17, 2012 - 8:09AM
Chris Harris takes the Nissan GT-R Track Pack and Porsche 911 Turbo S to the track and tests each to see which car is faster.
By Keith Griffin on May 15, 2012 - 1:48PM
Today marked the start of production of the new 2013 Nissan Altima at the company's Smyrna Vehicle Assembly Plant in Tennesseee: the start of the 5th generation of the popular midsize sedan.
By Don Bain on May 13, 2012 - 6:28PM
Here are six overlooked cars that could make our daily drive better, but generally don't just because they are new, somehow different or don’t fit the image we want.
By David Herron on May 10, 2012 - 7:25PM
Schneider-Electric unveils new electric car DC Fast Charge station, compatible with the CHADEMO protocol, that has the vitally important UL listing, and which can be upgraded to the new SAE DC Fast Charge protocol once that is finished.
By Don Bain on May 8, 2012 - 5:19PM
A new Carfax study has revealed over 2.7 million used cars with ignored auto recall issues are currently endangering the safety of commuters nationwide, reflecting the number of manufacturer mandated repairs simply not completed during 2011.
By Denis Flierl on May 7, 2012 - 7:46AM
Nissan released the first video of its Project 370Z to help promote the launch of its updated 2013 370Z sports car.
By Adam Yamada-Hanff on May 5, 2012 - 9:45AM
Lucas Ordonez, Nissan's first Gran Turismo Academy winner, received what he thought was his best birthday present this week when he was selected to join the test team for the Nissan DeltaWing.
By Patrick Rall on May 4, 2012 - 12:27PM
While the Chevrolet Volt failed to hit the same impressive sales figures as it did in March, April 2012 brought about another month where the electric Chevy vastly outsold the Nissan Leaf – this time by a margin of almost 3 to 1 – helping the Volt to continue to pull away from the Leaf in sales for the 2012 calendar year.
By Adam Yamada-Hanff on May 3, 2012 - 7:26PM
The Renault-Nissan Alliance and state corporation Russian Technologies have announced some interesting news today. Each company has agreed to create a joint venture and give Renault-Nissan an indirect majority stake in AVTOVAZ, the Russian automaker.
By Denis Flierl on May 3, 2012 - 5:55PM
Nissan has just announced the official production of a 545 horsepower 160 mph Juke-R that will star in its own movie.
By Adam Yamada-Hanff on May 3, 2012 - 11:05AM
Have you every watched races on TV and thought, "Hey that doesn't look so hard, I can do that!" Now is your chance to prove it as the 2012 PlayStation Gran Turismo Academy has gone live, giving you a chance to from virtual to real racing!
By Adam Yamada-Hanff on April 28, 2012 - 7:02PM
It seems the Nissan Leaf in Norway is quite popular as 1000 Nissan Leafs, an electric car, have been sold in the country in just six months.
By Anthony Faccenda on April 27, 2012 - 8:14PM
Nashville car buyers can earn $500 back on 2012 Altima models.

By Anthony Faccenda on April 25, 2012 - 12:20PM
Affected vehicles contain improper 567 certification labels, which are supposed to contain rim size information.



By Denis Flierl on April 23, 2012 - 9:00AM
Nissan announced today that an all-new 2013 Sentra Sedan will be coming to the North American market later this year.
By David Herron on April 22, 2012 - 4:00PM
While you cannot "Brick" a Nissan Leaf, it can become dead if you're away for a couple weeks, fortunately it's easy to revivify a dead Leaf, and it's easy to avoid the problem in the first place.