Last year, Nissan tried a $100/month price for a new battery in its popular Leaf, but was loudly criticized for that attempt. Today, Nissan is changing gears with a big announcement regarding the ...

He has just completed the first test drives with the conversion, having built 48 Leaf cells into blocks resembling the volumes the old batteries occupied. He had to add some additional battery ...

Nine bars, out of the maximum 12, would be "approximately 70 percent of [the Leaf's] original battery capacity." Before the Leaf launched, Nissan said it expected Leafs to have between 70 and 80 ...

Nissan has built its first lithium-ion cells for its electric vehicle’s batteries at its plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, which will first be used in its 2013 Leaf. The cell fabrication facility in ...

Overseas sales are not yet set. Each Leaf uses 48 battery modules. The portable power stations contain two modules. Nissan officials said they are testing the batteries in Leafs after their owners ...

“Nissan will protect against capacity loss in LEAF batteries that fall below nine bars, of the available 12 bars displayed on the vehicle’s battery capacity gauge, for the first five years or ...

Ponz Pandikuthira, Chief Product and Planning Officer for Nissan Americas, dishes on all the new tech that’s coming. Aside ...

That means that to remove the individual cells without damaging them ... it seems as though using a battery from a Nissan Leaf might be a whole lot easier anyway.

If you’re looking to get from A to a reasonably distanced point B on a budget, a used Nissan Leaf could be an intriguing ...

Nissan offers the Leaf with two battery packs: The entry-level Leaf S has a 40-kilowatt-hour battery feeding a 147-horsepower electric motor, and the Leaf SV Plus gets a 60-kWh pack and 214-hp motor.