Contributing journalist
Contributing journalist
Nissan should rightly feel aggrieved that Tesla makes all the the headlines when it comes to electric cars. Since 2010, the Leaf has been wafting down the world's (mostly urban) roads under electric power. The company has sold 300,000 of them, making Nissan the global leader in electric vehicle sales.
Nobody else has done this. Something else nobody has done is release a second-generation mass market electric car. The new Nissan Leaf launched just over a month ago in a blaze of light and sound in Tokyo and we're back, fresh from poking around the new IMx electric concept, to see how the new model drives.
Read the full Nissan Leaf 2018 review.