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NISSAN dealer Alex F Noble has handed over two new LEAFs to the Scottish Police Services Authority (SPSA). SPSA fleet manager, Billy Andrew said: ‘As an organization, we are fully committed to reducing our impact on the environment and we have been looking at how we can incorporate more sustainable processes into the way we [...]

NISSAN is working on the car of the future – and it will be able to read the driver’s mind and predict their next move. Working with scientists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland (EPFL), Nissan wants to make roads as safe as possible. The EPFL scientists are well suited to the investigations [...]

ONE European association is calling for the standardisation of charging an electric car across Europe. The ACEA – the automobile manufacturers’ trade association – wants one design of plug to become the standard plug for all electric vehicles, reports BBC News. ACEA’s secretary general, Ivan Hodac, believes this will encourage consumers to buy electric cars [...]

AS the crucial September plate change month draws to a close I’ve been taking a close look at the figures. The total industry volume so far looks to be a lot healthier this September than it did last year – and this follows a pleasant surprise in August with sales up for the first time [...]

WE’VE seen the rule-breaking GT-R pitched against Audi R8s and Porsche 911s before, but we’ve never seen this. An American magazine has put the GT-R up against the most powerful Porsche available and the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport. Yes, you read that right – the 250mph Veyron. Here the magazine compares 0-60mph times – [...]

IF you’ve had calls from excited customers asking when they can buy a GT-R powered Juke, don’t laugh at them! Various websites are reporting that Nissan IS working on a ‘Super’ Juke powered by the 530bhp 3.8-litre twin turbo V6 unit from the GT-R and capable of ‘hitting 200mph and covering 60mph in less than [...]

ONE man in Canada has become the country’s first customer of the all-electric LEAF. Ricardo Borba, a 44-year old electric engineer and software developer, and his family will be using the LEAF as primary car. ‘My family and I were starting to look for a new car last year when the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [...]

TELEVISION screens across the country will be full of the Juke this week. The special edition Juke Kuro campaign is now well underway and so too is the latest round of the Twinkle Twinkle Juke ‘Energise the City’ advertising campaign – the latter is back on TV to further drive Juke awareness among buyers. The [...]