Nissan Leaf

The electric vehicle Nissan Leaf is provided in Russia

2018: Nissan is going to sell one million electric vehicles by 2020

The Nissan company told in April, 2018 about plans to sell 1 million electromachines a year since 2020. At the same time heads of car maker noted that for this purpose they will develop eight new models of electrical machines. One of them will leave under the name of Infiniti and will become premium model

Also in the company told about further plans of Nissan — by 2022 the cars equipped with a benzino-hybrid technology will make the majority among electric vehicles in a line. Such vehicles use gasoline for a power supply of the engine of the car, requiring much a smaller charge. Besides, Nissans, Renault and Mitsubishi together plan productions of 17 electric^[1].

Besides, within cooperation between Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi Motors, by 2022 they are going to start jointly in total 40 cars with the independent drive and to become the operator of self-service, car rental. At the same time Nissan is the world leader in sale of the electrified machines. Japanese managed to head the market of "net" cars thanks to the Leaf model which from the moment of the emergence in 2010 was sold in copies more than in 300,000 copies.

Change of strategy of Nissan is connected with plans of increase in an annual income up to 160 billion dollars. Based on the last financial year it made 120 billion dollars.

2017: Nissan Leaf of the second generation

The Nissan company announced on September 6, 2017 cardinal updating of the electric vehicle Leaf which his producers call "the first really mass electric vehicle", and "the most sold electric vehicle in the world"^[2].

Nissan Leaf of the second generation

In addition to the accumulator of the increased power which allows Leaf of the second generation by more than two times in comparison with the predecessor to increase car mileage on one battery charging, and on the design improved in comparison with model of first generation in new Leaf special attention is paid on themselves by intelligent systems which bring closer it on functionality to unmanned vehicles.

Almost pilotless electric vehicle

The most interesting of intellectual opportunities of Leaf - support system of the driver of ProPILOT. In the present version of ProPILOT 1.0 it is capable to manage without participation of the driver the electric vehicle at the movement on one band of the road.

This system is able to maintain automatically a distance to ahead the going car at a speed set by the driver within 30-100 km/h, automatically brakes when braking ahead of the going car, and again to begin the movement, when clicking the accelerator pedal. In future versions of ProPILOT 2.0 and 3.0 which implementation is expected by 2020 a system will learn to make overtakings without participation of the driver.

Management of one pedal

In the basic delivery Nissan Leaf has the e-Pedal function allowing to operate the vehicle using one pedal of an accelerator. At the activated e-Pedal clicking a pedal as at the normal car, will lead to acceleration of the machine while the leg raising from an accelerator at Nissan Leaf will entail active braking up to a complete stop of the machine.

Considering strangeness for drivers of the e-Pedal function, developers provided a possibility of its shutdown. For cases of emergency brake application at Nissan Leaf there is also a normal pedal of a brake, however developers believe that "in 90% of cases for control of machine there will be enough one pedal".

ProPILOT maintains a distance to ahead the going car

At last, the ProPILOT Park system is intended for the automatic parking of the machine. Being included, it controls steering, speed, brakes and transmission in the course of the parking.

The doubled run and the accumulator

Unlike the Leaf model of the first generation capable which is nowadays present at the market (according to the producer), for one charge of the accumulator to overcome 160 km, the updated electric vehicle can run 378 km on one charge of batteries. The new accumulator has capacity 40 kWh in comparison with 24 kWh at last model.

"First really mass electric vehicle"

Nissan calls Leaf of first generation "the first really mass electric vehicle" and "the first electric vehicle with the affordable price".

According to manufacturing company, Nissan Leaf - the electric vehicle which is most sold in the world (except for machine electric vehicles with the hybrid power unit). As the producer says, since 2010 in the world more than 283 thousand Nissans Leaf were sold.

The electric vehicles Tesla going it in popularity (in total Model S and Model 3) since the beginning of production in 2015 till the I quarter 2017 were sold in number of about 152 thousand pieces.

Nissan Leaf and Russia

The first version of Leaf officially is not on sale in Russia. In other countries its price is from about 3.7 million yens ($35.5 thousand) in Japan to 35 thousand euros in the European Union countries.

In July, 2017 the company declared the fast presentation of Nissan Leaf of the second generation in the Russian market. Its terms and the prices of the machine were not disclosed yet.

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