The company, which sold more than 62,500 EVs around the world last year, will launch the longer-range variant of its Nissan Leaf electric car within months, aimed at addressing “range anxiety”, which is seen as a barrier in the domestic market toward greater uptake. The Leaf e+ can travel up to 384km on a single charge, a 40 per cent increase on the 270km of range of the current model.
US President Joe Biden has announced a plan to use his government’s purchasing power to drive the take-up of EVs, promising to replace up to 650,000 fossil fuel vehicles with electric ones made in the United States. But Mr Lester said countries that had been the most successful in making a switch had made a point of providing direction.
“When you consider the access to renewable energy that we have here, when you consider the distance that people actually drive, the adoption of technology, some of the infrastructure that is already built, and the predominance of people living in homes with car parks or driveways already ... there is no reason why we can’t be a global leader.”
We are just so dumb by not embracing electric cars😡
We r just Soo dump not emrace electric cars
This level of investment in EV’s will never happen with the Morrison government.
MathewHounsell Hey Nissan, how about throwing in a free e-bike with the Leaf, could use that for many short trips?
As usual the rest of the world is progressing but Australia being left in the dark ages because of incompetent leadership
Leadership = More taxpayer subsidies
Nissan is coming for our utes!
Petrol prices vary between 120 and 160 at least 4 days of the week. Now imagine a 40 cents profit on every Litre of petrol pumped in Victoria irrespective of crude oil pricing RACV racvictoria OilMafia
hows th quality of the cvt in the n17 these days?
Be ready for the country littered by cheap Chinese EV cars soon. While the others have been sleeping, China has made giant steps towards electric cars thanks to Tesla plant and Govt. pouring in billions.
Make electric cars for under $30k and ensure they can travel at least 650km on one charge and they will be embraced. Simple.
A country reliant on fossil fuel sales while pretending to care for the environment will do that unfortunately. Australia is a rouge environmental bullshit artist.
Wuling Hong Guang Mini EV has overtaken Tesla Model 3 as the world's most popular electric vehicle for the first time, according to the EV Sales blog.2 days ago
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