Shocking news usually helps trigger necessary changes to improve things. This is something the press is proud of doing: watch Spotlight, and you’ll know what we’re talking about. Fair Go must be ...

Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...

Until very recently, we had never heard of anyone making new battery packs for old cars. The only way to keep them alive was to find a used battery pack for a price that made sense. That is about to ...

Nissan is launching a new program today to replace old LEAF battery packs with “refabricated” packs at a discount over new packs. Electric car battery packs inevitably lose some of their capacity over ...

One of the problems with current battery technology is that the cells that make up a pack have a finite life. They can be charged and discharged hundreds and thousands of times, but eventually, they ...

Since it first went on sale in the U.S. in late 2010, the Nissan Leaf has been one of the more popular and affordable EVs on the market. In fact, according to Inside EVs, Nissan has sold over 170,000 ...

As the initial Nissan Leaf electric vehicles barrel toward their first decade on U.S. roads, some owners are voicing concerns on Internet forums about battery degradation and clamoring for an ...

When the first-generation Nissan Leaf debuted in 2011, it quickly became the best-selling electric car in history, with no real competition. By the time the most recent version debuted in 2017, it was ...