The Nissan LEAF production was set to start late in 2012 at the Smyrna, Tennessee plant but after the terrible events that took place on March 11 the company may have to postpone that start date.

"On March 11 every operation stopped, so all the resources that were in place [to begin manufacturing the LEAF in the U.S.] were used to restore Japan," explains Hideaki Watanabe, Head, Global Zero Emission Vehicle Business Unit, Nissan. "All the milestones and studies to localize production in the United States were stopped."¹

At this time Watanabe is not projecting how long of…

Have you ever had a power outage and wondered when it was going to kick back on? Well Nissan is working on a solution for LEAF owners. Nissan is working to enable LEAF electric vehicle (EV) owners to use the energy reserves of the cars' batteries to power homes during rolling blackouts. According to Hideaki Watanabe, Global Head of Zero Emission Vehicles, Nissan, the LEAF battery stores a maximum of 24 kWh - enough energy to power a U.S. house for roughly a day.

Nissan's resourceful initiative bodes extremely well for LEAF drivers in Japan who are, as you…

Nissan North America is going transparent for the sake of used car buyers. They'll begin sharing information related to open safety and emissions recalls for Nissan and Infiniti vehicles with Carfax. A popular company specializing in vehicle history reports.

Millions of used-car buyers and sellers a year turn to Carfax as part of their used-car evaluations. The advantage to you the consumer is that you'll now have access to this pertinent information via their convenient third-party website. And, you won't have to pay any addition fees to review the recall information on Nissan and Infiniti Vehicle History…