Nissan Leaf battery cells put through torture test, live to charge again. One minor chink in the armor of the Tesla Model S is that a small number have caught fire, once their battery packs were ...

Nissan was one of the very rare automakers investing into its own battery cell production. Virtually every automaker is investing into battery pack production and buying the cells from suppliers.

Nissan will be switching to cells supplied by Hitachi for its 2013 Leaf model rather than the ones currently supplied by Automotive Energy Supply Corp.The change to Hitachi-supplied cells will ...

In Smyrna yesterday, Nissan’s director of product planning, Mark Perry, gave AutoblogGreen some more information on the Leaf battery pack. As we know, Nissan says the 24 kWh pack gives the Leaf ...

As it enters its third model year, the Nissan Leaf electric car is expected to get a number of updates and improvements for 2013. Now, it appears one of them is a change in the lithium-ion cells ...

I just got my 2011 Nissan Leaf back from a two week stay at the dealer to replace a failing battery cell. I have had my Leaf for almost two years now and 17,000 miles.

Just as Nissan was a pioneer in selling a battery-powered, zero-emission car in the U.S. in late 2010, the automaker must become a pioneer in figuring out how to address aging batteries that ...

Using $6,499 as a full MSRP on the pack means Nissan is putting a price of $270/kWh on the cells. ... The suggested retail price of the Nissan LEAF battery pack is $5,499.

Interestingly, Nissan didn't just throw some extra battery cells in there and call it a day for its extended pack. ... The 2016 Nissan Leaf kicks off at $26,700 ...

Nissan was an early proponent of local sourcing for the Leaf, when it constructed a dedicated battery plant next to its Smyrna vehicle assembly that produced its own battery cells.

Nissan’s new portable power station is displayed at Nissan headquarters in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023, reusing battery stacks from the Nissan Leaf electric car.

After the Chevrolet Volt’s battery fire hazard debacle, electric vehicles have received intense scrutiny over the integrity of battery cells.To answer these concerns, Nissan has stepped forward ...