Leaked photos of fresh all-electric Leaf provide very first look at Nissan’s Tesla killer
Blurry pictures of the forthcoming two thousand eighteen Nissan Leaf surfaced on Twitter over the weekend, providing a very first look at the automaker’s attempt to reassert dominance in the electrical car field. But the photos, which were very first reported by The Wall Street Journal, didn’t inspire much confidence among fans that Nissan will be able to overcome Tesla.
The photos were tweeted by a user called Blue Miata who claimed to be employed at a Nissan-related workplace. “I discovered the fresh Leaf on the inspection line at the Oppama plant,” he said in two tweets directed at Japanese-language car magazines. Leaked photos of upcoming cars are fairly commonplace, but for pictures to leak from the factories where they are built is very unusual.
The Nissan Leaf was the top-selling electrical car in the US in 2014, but has since fallen behind Tesla’s Model S and X and the Chevy Bolt. Recently, over half a million people put down deposits for Tesla’s fresh mass-market Model Three, around twice the number of Leafs that have sold since its launch in 2010.
Still, the Leaf is one of the highest-volume electrified cars ever sold, and Nissan is betting strenuously that the upcoming refreshed model will be enough to take on both the Chevy Bolt and the Tesla Model Trio. All three cars are jockeying to become the very first electrical vehicle that cracks through on a mass scale. To sweeten the deal, the next-generation Leaf will also feature the Japanese automaker’s most advanced driver assistance system yet. And the Leaf is rumored to have an all-electric range inbetween 200–300 miles. Nissan very first exposed its plan to include the ProPilot technology, which permits single-lane autonomous driving, in the forthcoming version of the Leaf back at CES last January.
But fans were disappointed that the fresh Leaf looked less like the car from the future and more like Nissan’s mass-market vehicles like the Micra and Note. “Why are you not going to put out [something] like this? Why would you make that so ordinary?” one user lamented, posting photos of Nissan’s IDS concept car that’s made the rounds at auto shows recently.
Nissan plans to officially launch the Leaf in September. In the run-up, it has been releasing teaser photos demonstrating the vehicle’s headlights, grille, and silhouetted bod form. “The World Premiere for the fresh Nissan LEAF with ProPILOT will be on September 6, 2017,” a Nissan spokesperson said. “We will provide more details then.”
Here’s a teaser Nissan posted on August 3rd:
Leaked photos of fresh all-electric Leaf provide very first look at Nissan’s Tesla killer – The Edge
Leaked photos of fresh all-electric Leaf provide very first look at Nissan’s Tesla killer
Blurry pictures of the forthcoming two thousand eighteen Nissan Leaf surfaced on Twitter over the weekend, providing a very first look at the automaker’s attempt to reassert dominance in the electrified car field. But the pics, which were very first reported by The Wall Street Journal, didn’t inspire much confidence among fans that Nissan will be able to overcome Tesla.
The pictures were tweeted by a user called Blue Miata who claimed to be employed at a Nissan-related workplace. “I discovered the fresh Leaf on the inspection line at the Oppama plant,” he said in two tweets directed at Japanese-language car magazines. Leaked photos of upcoming cars are fairly commonplace, but for pictures to leak from the factories where they are built is very unusual.
The Nissan Leaf was the top-selling electrical car in the US in 2014, but has since fallen behind Tesla’s Model S and X and the Chevy Bolt. Recently, over half a million people put down deposits for Tesla’s fresh mass-market Model Three, around twice the number of Leafs that have sold since its launch in 2010.
Still, the Leaf is one of the highest-volume electrical cars ever sold, and Nissan is betting strongly that the upcoming refreshed model will be enough to take on both the Chevy Bolt and the Tesla Model Trio. All three cars are jockeying to become the very first electrified vehicle that cracks through on a mass scale. To sweeten the deal, the next-generation Leaf will also feature the Japanese automaker’s most advanced driver assistance system yet. And the Leaf is rumored to have an all-electric range inbetween 200–300 miles. Nissan very first exposed its plan to include the ProPilot technology, which permits single-lane autonomous driving, in the forthcoming version of the Leaf back at CES last January.
But fans were disappointed that the fresh Leaf looked less like the car from the future and more like Nissan’s mass-market vehicles like the Micra and Note. “Why are you not going to put out [something] like this? Why would you make that so ordinary?” one user lamented, posting photos of Nissan’s IDS concept car that’s made the rounds at auto shows recently.
Nissan plans to officially launch the Leaf in September. In the run-up, it has been releasing teaser pics showcasing the vehicle’s headlights, grille, and silhouetted figure form. “The World Premiere for the fresh Nissan LEAF with ProPILOT will be on September 6, 2017,” a Nissan spokesperson said. “We will provide more details then.”
Here’s a teaser Nissan posted on August 3rd: