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Confirmed: Nissan sells 20,000 Leafs worldwide, 10,000 in U.S. by end of the year

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It was just a few months ago that Nissan announced it had sold over 10,000 all-electric Leaf electric cars around the world. Speaking before the start of the Tokyo Motor Show today, company officials confirmed to Autoblog that the automaker has sold over 20,000 Leafs since the electric car went on sale in December of 2010. Of that total, over 60 percent of the roughly 9,000 Leafs sold in the U.S. so far this year (we’ll get specific numbers later this week) have found homes in California

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Nissan Leaf still holding sales edge over Chevy Volt

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Filed under: Car Buying , Hybrid , Sedan , Hatchback , Chevrolet , GM , Nissan , Electric In the battle for plug-in vehicle sales supremacy, the electric-only Nissan Leaf has emerged victorious for the month of July, beating out the Chevrolet Volt for the fourth consecutive month ( April , May , June and July). Nissan says Leaf sales dropped to 931 units in the U.S. in July, a significant decrease compared to the 1,708 electric hatchbacks the Japanese automaker sold in June .

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Report: Top Gear airs controversial Nissan Leaf segment, responds to critics

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Filed under: Etc. , Hatchback , Nissan , Electric We’re not into spoiling the on-screen antics that make Top Gear one of the greatest automotive shows ever, but we’re not gonna let slide the fact that the BBC aired last Sunday the much-anticipated Top Gear episode in which Jeremy Clarkson and James May embark on a journey in the Nissan Leaf and Peugeot iOn . Yes, the Top Gear duo ragged on the Leaf and iOn after the vehicles were intentionally discharged in order to highlight the difficulties of charging electric vehicles in a municipality with no public charging stations (read Nissan’s official response to the show’s battery-depleting antics), but both Clarkson and May did have some positive words to say for the Leaf and iOn. Take, for example, Clarkson admitting the Leaf drove much like a conventional vehicle and May comparing the iOn to a Porsche 911 .

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2011 Nissan Leaf: Plugged in

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2011 Nissan Leaf: Plugged in WEEK EIGHT: July 5-11, 2011 On paper, the Leaf and I are a perfect match; I drive 35 miles round trip to work; I have no children so my vehicle doesn’t need to double as a shuttle service; and I’m a bit of a homebody, so most nights I eat in or go for dinner at a friend’s house, most of whom live within a few miles. But I view a car not so much as transportation but as a source of entertainment, so I was skeptical of the Leaf. Would it be able to satisfy my enthusiast side, or is it little more than a tarted-up golf cart? I start the week with an open mind, but I’m prepared to be disappointed

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2011 Nissan Leaf: Cutting off the Long Tail

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2011 Nissan Leaf: Cutting off the Long Tail WEEK NINE: July 12-18, 2011 Anyone who’s been paying attention to the nerdier ends of the internet over the past few years might be familiar with the concept of “the long tail.” For those who haven’t, here’s a brief rundown: computer nerds tell us that, for almost anything quantifiable (like the number of cars a family owns), a bunch of people will have a low number (many families have one or two cars), but as that quantity grows larger, the corresponding percentage of people will drop (few families have three cars, fewer still have four, and so on). The name comes from the graph used to show this, which looks like a long tail. Photo Gallery: 2011 Nissan Leaf – Cutting off the Long Tail – Automobile Magazine 2011 Nissan Leaf: Cutting off the Long Tail | Digg It | Add to del.icio.us

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Official: 2012 Nissan Leaf gets higher price tag, more standard equipment

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Filed under: Car Buying , Hatchback , Nissan , Electric For 2012, the Nissan Leaf mid-size electric will receive some minor upgrades and a healthy bump in price. Moving into its second model year, Nissan’s groundbreaking hatchback will not receive any significant modifications to its exterior or powertrain. However, the decision to make standard the cold weather package – consisting of a battery heater, heated outside mirrors, heated steering wheel, heated front and rear seats and an HVAC duct to the rear seating area – and the addition of a quick-charge port as standard equipment (previously offered as a $700 option ) on the uplevel SL model, means that pricing for the 2012 Leaf has increased. Nissan has set the MSRP of the base 2012 Leaf SV at $35,200 (plus an $820 destination charge) and the uplevel SL at $37,250.

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