Autovolt returns after a short ‘recharge’ to bring you the very latest in electric vehicle news and reviews. Headlining our latest issue is none other than the Volkswagen ID.3 – a car set to revolutionise the electric car scene, and Volkswagen itself. Alex Grant gets the inside scoop from Nissan Europe’s Ken Ramirez, senior vice […]
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Nissan has announced it has entered into an agreement with GSR Capital (GSR), a private investment fund, for the sale of Nissan’s electric battery operations and production facilities to GSR. The sale and purchase agreement covers Nissan’s battery subsidiary, Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC), as well as battery manufacturing operations in Smyrna, Tennessee, owned by
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Speculation is rife in this industry and while everyone clamours for some iota of information over another media brand, we’re not in that business and instead simply state the cold hard known and ratified facts. With this in mind, don’t get your hopes up to be told what battery capacity is in the new Nissan
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Over 100 years after the legendary London department store first added an electric van to its fleet, Harrods is once again returning to EV technology, with the addition of the 100 percent electric Nissan e-NV200 delivery van. The British department store is the latest European business to add a zero emission Nissan e-NV200 to its
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As part of its commitment to creating a zero-emission, zero-fatality future for mobility, Nissan today showed to the media its real-world testing of next generation autonomous drive prototype vehicles taking place in the east of London. This is the first time that Nissan has demonstrated its latest autonomous drive technology on public roads in Europe.
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For those who’ve followed my driving of the Nissan Leaf 30kWh Tekna, OY16XLO, you’ll know that I’ve enjoyed the delights of driving electrically and more often than not, for free. It’s one of the great pleasures of electric vehicle ownership and provides a superior sense of freedom, which is otherwise lost as you watch the
Nearly 1,000 miles have now been covered in OY16XLO, not a huge amount, but about average for any car – 1,000 per month or 12,000 per year. Most journeys have been local, it must be said, but one finds that occasionally a longer distance journey is necessary and the Leaf is just as adept at
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Nissan has unveiled its ground-breaking BladeGlider electric car prototype in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with Williams Advanced Engineering playing an important role in the car’s creation as Nissan’s technical partner. The BladeGlider concept has a rich history already, having first been seen as a concept car at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show. Nissan capitalised on
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Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. has revealed the world’s first Solid Oxide Fuel-Cell (SOFC)-powered prototype vehicle in Brazil that runs on bio-ethanol electric power. The breakthrough model, an all-new light–commercial vehicle, can rely on multiple fuels, including ethanol and natural gas, to produce high-efficiency electricity as a power source. Nissan president and CEO Carlos Ghosn said:
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There will be more public locations to charge electric cars in the UK than there are petrol stations by the summer of 2020, according to new analysis by Nissan. At the end of 2015, there were just 8,472 fuel stations in the UK, down from 37,539 in 1970. Assuming a steady rate of decline, Nissan
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