Being one of the early makers of all-electric vehicles, Nissan has had a fair share of issues with the Leaf, mostly regarding battery performance, battery degradation and battery replacement. It’s ...

People look over the battery array of an all-electric Nissan Leaf in Smyrna, Tenn. in 2010. Nissan North America, held its ground-breaking ceremony Wednesday for a lithium-ion battery plant as part of ...

In designing, testing, and producing the Nissan Leaf, the first modern electric car sold in volume, Nissan made a design decision that some other companies didn't. It chose not to build an active ...

As the initial Nissan Leaf electric vehicles barrel toward their first decade on U.S. roads, some owners are voicing concerns on Internet forums about battery degradation and clamoring for an ...

Over the course of this week, a story from across the pond in Canada has been gathering pace. It’s highlighting the potentially dangerous future we could head towards if we don’t take a more ...

Some people who drive EVs and brag about how sustainable they are probably think only about carbon emissions and not about Overshoot Day. That’s the annual date on which we are reminded humans have ...

With more than 300,000 Nissan Leaf electric cars on the road, some more than six years old, battery degradation is becoming more and more of an issue. The different rates of capacity loss are a topic ...

Real heroes can be regular people, such as Sal Cameli. He goes through a lot to support electric car adoption. The video above shows the process Cameli adopts to be able to charge his Nissan Leaf. His ...

It’s often said that one of the advantages of owning an electric vehicle is reduced maintenance costs, and for the most part, that’s true. That is, until the vehicle’s battery pack starts to show its ...

Nissan claims the batteries in its Leaf electric cars will last 22 years, an estimated 10-12 years longer than the average life of the car itself. Nissan reached its conclusions based off of data from ...

Just like the hybrid-powered Prius, the all-electric Leaf is a running joke in the automotive community. The naysayers may not be aware that Nissan’s compact hatchback was a trendsetting car, a ...