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AN AWARD-WINNING Great Yarmouth hotel praised for its environmental efforts is blazing a trail for eco tourism in the region after taking delivery of a 100 per cent electric Nissan LEAF. The four-star Imperial Hotel in North Drive will use the state-of-the-art zero-emission model – the world’s best-selling all-electric vehicle – to promote its impressive [...]

LOCAL criminals won’t be the only ones charged after West Midlands Police (WMP) took delivery of 30 Nissan LEAFs in the UK’s largest corporate LEAF deal to date. Ten local policing units (LPUs) will run three ‘diary car’ LEAFs each: the cars will be used to attend pre-arranged meetings with victims of crime and locals [...]

NISSAN could sell up to 4,000 all-electric LEAFs in the UK during 2013, according to the company’s managing director, Jim Wright. And this will partly be because the car has been ‘normalised’ and made to feel much more a part of the Nissan family. Production of the second-generation LEAF is now under way at Nissan’s [...]

NISSAN has welcomed the changes to the London Congestion Charge from Transport for London (TfL), which sees pure electric cars and vans or vehicles emitting less than 75g/km receiving a 100 per cent exemption from the £10 charge. The new ultra low emissions discount, which previously applied to vehicles emitting less than 100g/km, comes in [...]

A CHEESEMAKER’S quest to turn his business totally carbon neutral has been made possible by Nissan. Deliveries of Winterdale cheese to customers including Fortnum & Mason, The Goring and Biddenden Vineyard, are now being made using a 100 per cent electric Nissan LEAF, finally making the cheese fully sustainable. The Nissan LEAF used by Winterdale [...]

AS we’ve reported recently on Insider, Nissan has just launched a new version of its all-electric LEAF – and one of its celebrity admirers has declared himself VERY impressed with the vehicle. Actor Robert Llewellyn, who starred as android Kryten in the sci-fi comedy show Red Dwarf, couldn’t wait to get behind the wheel of [...]

THE next generation of Nissan’s all-electric LEAF has arrived – and for the first time, buyers can lease batteries for the 100 per cent electric car and choose one of three trim levels. A new pricing structure has been introduced to reflect the three trim levels and the battery-leasing options now available – but things [...]

NISSAN is celebrating a successful March after breaking sales records set last year. Despite speculation that the 13-plate would deter buyers, UK new car registrations rose by 5.9 per cent in March. During March, 23,576 new Nissans were delivered giving the company a market share of 5.4 per cent, representing a 6.4 per cent increase [...]