Nissan LEAF
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Based on its small size and limited range, the Nissan Leaf would usually be one of the last vehicles you'd choose for driving thousands of miles through remote areas. But the electric vehicle advocates at Plug In Adventures are about to do just that on the 10,000-mile (16,000-km) Mongol Rally.
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Nissan recently stated that the next version of its all-electric Leaf will feature an autonomous driving mode. Already, a prototype Autonomous Drive Leaf has been tested in Japan. It has now been announced that next month, such a car will be hitting the streets of London.
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Driverless vehicle systems are used in factories the world over, but traditional setups require the installation of special railings or magnetic guides. A fleet of self-driving EVs don't need any such help to navigate Nissan's Oppama plant, where they tow fully-built cars around the factory.
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They're fast, quiet and (depending on the energy source) clean, but electric power still isn't as convenient as internal combustion. EV drivers don't always have the luxury of choice when it comes to charging stations, but that's set to change by 2020.
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Nissan has unveiled its 2016 Leaf electric car, in variety of "premium-look" colors. More importantly, the new Leaf will have a best-in-class range of 107 miles (172 km) and the NissanConnect infotainment system as standard.
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Following in the footsteps of Tesla and Mercedes-Benz, Nissan is now set to become the latest automaker to offer battery packs for stationary energy storage. The Nissan product should be relatively affordable, as it will incorporate used batteries from Nissan Leaf electric cars.
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Nissan has received lots of good press for its Leaf electric car, but the reviews for one in particular are glowing. The car has been given a paint job that appears normal in the light, but glows green in the dark. The glow-in-the-dark paint is said to be made up of entirely organic materials.
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Beyond the polished concept cars and design studies, automakers sometimes build unique vehicles simply because they have all the parts and tools lying around. That type of open-minded thinking gave way to a one-of-a-kind vehicle that blurs the lines between the Frontier pickup truck and the Leaf EV.
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Two weeks after taking Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for a short drive around the National Diet Front Garden in central Tokyo, the Leaf packing Nissan's Autonomous Drive (AD) technology has hit the public highways for the first time.
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Autonomous cars took to the roads of Tokyo for the first time on Saturday with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as a passenger. The Prime Minister rode on the public roads in the National Diet Front Garden in a Nissan Leaf and autonomous cars built by Honda and Toyota.
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Nissan has offered some new details about its development plans for autonomous drive vehicles. It will have the technology market ready within less than a decade and plans to eventually offer it across its model line.
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Autonomous cars will be tested on UK roads before the end of the year, according to a government policy paper published on Tuesday.
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