Blog of RENAULT NISSAN Alliance

With the arrival of the New Nissan LEAF, the enhanced second-generation version of the world's best selling 100% electric vehicle, Nissan is making driving an electric car even easier by offering a battery leasing option to most European customers.

SimCity, the city-building computer game, has just become even more realistic. The latest version of the best-selling game – SimCity 2013 – has gone green. Working in collaboration with Nissan, the game has added a Nissan LEAF charging station to its list of in-game add-ons.

The Nissan LEAF, the best-selling electric vehicle in the world, has secured Nissan's place as global leader in zero-emission mobility. But it's just the start of Nissan's wide-reaching electric vehicle programme.

Employees at the French Atomic Agency's facility in Grenoble now have a simple, eco-friendly way to get around the site – thanks to Twizy Way by Renault. The innovative car-sharing service allows staff to move around their workplace in one of the agency's 20 Twizys and to drop the vehicle off anywhere on the site. 

When it was launched, Nissan LEAF was the world's first purpose-designed electric vehicle from a major manufacturer. It was a roomy family car aimed at customers who mainly used their car as their daily driver for local trips - shopping or commuting - and who wanted to make a contribution to improving air quality in their home towns.

The New Forest is one of the largest areas of outstanding natural beauty in England, 566 km² (216 sq. miles) of unenclosed pastureland, heathland and forest. A haven for walkers, cyclists and horse riders, it attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.

While the original Nissan LEAF was built solely in Japan, New LEAF is being built in three locations: Japan, North America and Europe.

Breaking with convention, Renault’s latest electric city car – the Twin’Z concept – has not been given its world debut at a motor show, but at a furniture exhibition… the Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano, the centrepiece of that industry’s annual calendar.

Sales of Nissan LEAF are booming in Norway and the other Nordic countries... and not just for environmental reasons.

No country has sold more Nissan LEAF per capita than Norway, with the world's first mass production electric vehicle taking 1.7 per cent of all vehicle sales in 2012, its first full year on sale.