A pioneering Cornwall cab company has clocked up 150,000 miles and more than 37,000 individual fares in its fleet of 100 per cent electric Nissan LEAF taxis. St Austell-based C&C Taxis – the first cab operator in the county to employ a pure electric vehicle – added the first LEAF to its 10-strong fleet almost […]
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Production of the all electric Nissan e-NV200 van has begun in Barcelona – the second all electric vehicle from Nissan after the hugely popular LEAF electric car. The e-NV200 will be made available as both a passenger vehicle as well as a light commercial van thanks to it’s adaptable interior. The Nissan factory in Barcelona
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The 30th April marked International Noise Awareness Day (INAD), a day launched by the Center for Hearing and Communication (CHC). Nissan took the opportunity to use the event as an excuse to exercise their all electric LEAF. The World Health Organisation (WHO) states at least 13.5% of Europeans are exposed to road traffic noise at
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Following a sixth month trial of Nissan’s all electric e-NV200 van, British Gas have placed an order for 100 e-NV200’s with 50 to be delivered as soon as possible and a further 50 before the end of the year. The trial took place over a six month period across the UK with 28 electric vans
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Nissan have been playing with a new water repelling (hydrophobic) product called Ultra-Ever Dry by applying it to the paint on a Nissan Note. The idea of the coating is to aid in keeping the car clean longer since it repells water, oil and mud incredibly well. Nissan will be testing the coating with a
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GT Academy winners Wolfgang Reip and Lucas Ordóñez – plus three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama – have a totally new set of buttons to learn when they jump behind the wheel of the Nissan ZEOD RC. While Reip and Ordóñez began their racing career pushing buttons on their PlayStation controllers, the talented racers
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Over in the USA, Nissan have announced the expansion of its successful ‘No Charge to Charge’ promotion, which will provide two years of no-cost public charging with the purchase or lease of a new Nissan LEAF. In total, Nissan will launch ‘No Charge to Charge’ in 25 U.S. markets, which are currently responsible for more
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Three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama will join Nissan GT Academy winners Lucas Ordóñez and Wolfgang Reip on the driver line-up for the revolutionary electric Nissan ZEOD RC at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. Motoyama will make his fourth Le Mans start aboard the Nissan racer which combines a 300 horsepower electric powertrain with a 400 horsepower/40 kilogram/1.5 liter turbocharged petrol engine. The Japanese ace completed his first
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All electric fleet car sales are on the rise with the likes of Nissan reporting a staggering 30% increase in sales for the last financial year with high demand for it’s all electric LEAF EV. Fleet operators are increasingly being encouraged to operate greener fleets, which in turn saves them money and helps aid environmental
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The UK’s first road of electric cars – ‘the street of the future’ – has been created in Marlow by the ground-breaking ‘My Electric Avenue’ project. Nine neighbours are now receiving delivery of their all-electric Nissan LEAFs to use over 18 months in order to test a new technology that will monitor and control the
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