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Last year, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) ranked the natural gas-burning Honda Civic GX as the greenest vehicle of 2010. Well, that CNG-fed Civic, which is only available in a handful of states, has topped the charts yet again. With a green score of 54, the Civic GX ...

Nissan's battery-powered Leaf will enter limited production by year's end, but global sales and mass production are still a ways off. The input gleaned from early adopters and the carefully crafted delay before mass production begins will ...

Despite a slight delay, Nissan is now accepting orders for the Leaf, a breakthrough electric vehicle that promises to bring battery-powered cars to the masses. On August 31st, Nissan opened the floodgates, allowing up to 200 lucky ...

When Nissan rolled out pricing for its Leaf electric vehicle (EV), the lucrative lease rate of $349 a month for 36 months popped out as a rather good offer. Of course, Nissan arrived at those numbers by including a $1,999 down payment, and that number excludes fees charged for tax, title and ...

Let's repeat the Leaf purchasing process, as outlined by Nissan, one more time. The four simple steps to secure your place as one of the thousands who will own Nissan's zero-emissions vehicle next year are as follows: reserve, home assessment, charger installation and ordering. The process, as ...

Word is out and apparently, Nissan has delayed the Leaf ordering process by a couple of days. Instead of opening the floodgates on Friday, Nissan has reportedly decided that Tuesday, August 31st is the day that Leaf orders can begin to pour in. A few days of delay are just fine by us, as now ...

From time to time, our inbox explodes with a story that brings us to near laughter and, thanks to tipster Guillame, today was one of those times. In case you weren't aware, the Nissan Leaf arrived in Ireland on the 4th of August and took the staring role in the "Nissan Leaf Roadshow." The ...

Last week, we brought you that startling story regarding the possibility that Nissan, in a move to meet high demand in Japan, allegedly decided to limit U.S. allocation of Leafs to just 3,300 units by the end of March. Thankfully, the ...

The price wars for the Nissan Leaf are well underway, with one dealer committing to $500 off of the Leaf's MSRP, and another jumping in on the action by offering a $1,000 discount. Of course, this was all followed by yet another dealer claiming to beat both of those deals. Now, North Bay Nissan ...

At the end of June, Nissan sent out an email notice to those waiting in line for Leaf. The notice, pictured above, informed future Leaf owners that there was a slight delay in the ordering process. While the news of a possible delay likely disappointed those eager to drive off in a zero-emissions ...

With great fanfare, Apple announced iAd back in June and revealed at the time that the Nissan Leaf would be one of the first items promoted through the iDevice-specific advertising service. This week, the Wall ...

Nissan held its dealer conference last week in Las Vegas and discussed the company's upcoming electric vehicle, the Nissan Leaf. While we've yet to hear much from the conference, one dealership has come forward and posted a slew of ...

Last weekend, Nissan revealed some info regarding the Leaf's availability and its allocation in the UK and managed to do so with little fanfare and virtually no media coverage. It's almost as if Nissan intended to slip this ...

If past experience doing business with car dealers is anything to go by, the answer to the of what do Nissan dealers know about the Leaf electric vehicle (EV) is probably "not much" or "certainly not nearly enough." For anyone that ...

Coming up this afternoon, the heated discussions we have here on AutoblogGreen about the merits of the Nissan Leaf in comparison to the Chevrolet Volt will take to the public airwaves. Sometime during the 2 p.m. (EDT) hour of NPR's Science Friday show today, Nissan's Mark Perry, Nissan's director ...

While Nissan has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with various countries, municipalities, automakers and cities across the globe, its latest agreement with Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan strikes us as one of the most unusual to date. Under terms of the MOU, ...

Just days after reporting that at least one Chevrolet dealer said that eager buyers will have to fork over an additional $20,000 to get their hands on Chevy's highly anticipated Volt, the My Nissan Leaf forum is now suggesting that Leaf buyers may actually be able to drive off the lot in the ...

If there's ever going to be a green car cage match, we can guarantee that one of the fighters will be Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, who apparently can't pass up the chance to take on any competitor. His latest target? The lithium-ion battery pack in the Nissan Leaf, about which Musk had some ...

As August rolled in, the pre-ordering period for the Nissan Leaf opened up in Portugal and the Republic of Ireland. More pre-orders than expected (maybe) came in, and Nissan has reportedly announced a slight setback that will leave ...