Yokohama, Japan. Nissan Mantra reorganized third generation 2026. The leaf electric vehicle is “efficiency, efficiency, efficiency”.
Engineers used many tricks to increase the maximum run range by about 40 percent. Up to 303 miles (487 kilometers), giving fresh legs to a car that started a affordable EV segment 15 years ago.
When the new sheet will land this fall in the US and Canada, New Technologies will run the gamut from Brawnier batteries and a miniature engine unit to smarter heat control.
Even more, Leaf, which brings a cross -style silhouette, is seeking better efficiency.
Future product
Nissan Future product
Find the planned for the next four years planned for the next four years planned by our power plants, transformations and resuscitation.
View the list
Schedules of the Future Products of the Brand
Viewed aerodynamics divided the air with a slippery 0.26 stretching factor, improving 0.29 from the puffed second -generation leaf hatchback. The leaf becomes even better Air signs in Europe with a stretching coefficient of 0.25, partially thanks to the skin tires used in the market.
Under the sheet metal, a new “large module” battery approaches more cells to the battery, increasing the 17 percent energy density. And the new pack of “Three” in one “engine, converter and reducer is provided by one compact unit 10 percent reduction in gear.
“We have developed technologies that understand this third-generation sheet, emphasizing efficiency, efficiency,” said Hiroki Hiroki Isobe on June 9th. Briefing at Nissan’s world headquarters. “This is a more rational vehicle as a whole pack.”
Nissan Motor Co. He hopes that due to technological steps in the US and other markets, where the leaf will jump to EV rivals will cause anxiety and encourage buyers in the US and other markets. The US launch leads to global installation, and sales began in Japan and Europe at the end of the year.
Sign up at the first shift of our day Morning Newscast. A letter to start your day quickly.
Nissan has great ambitions on leaves but not in the US
However, the US is not expected to be the largest Leaf market, mainly due to uncertainty about EV incentives and Leaf prospects for importing increased US tariffs.
Nissan finished making a second -generation sheet in its Smirna city, Tennessee, at the assembly factory.
Third -generation leaf products will be consolidated at the Nissan’s Sunderland factory in the UK and its tochigi factory in Japan. The batteries will come from AESC in Japan and Europe.
The redeveloped Nissan Leaf goes beyond the crossover vibe, showing the more common second generation of the second generation Nissan Leaf hatchback.
Europe is expected to be the largest Leaf market, which about 60 percent of global presentations said at the briefing. He said Japan would make up about 20-30 percent of the world’s sales, taking into account the level of demand in the US.
Endo refused to give the world the goal of sales, but he said the volume of leaves should exceed the Nissan Ariya Flagman EV crossover. Ariya, which will share the production line with the tochigi sheet, the fiscal year ending March 31, announced around 50,000 global presentations.
Nissan sold about 19,800 electric crossovers in the US – and 1664 in Canada – 2024 calendar year.
“We do not yet know the effect of the total US tariff,” End said. “We still want the leaves to be best sold in the EV all over the world, but we still don’t know the exact number of sales.”
As the Nissan improved the EV range in the third generation leaves
In general, 2026. The leaf runs just below, with a sudden cut in the windscreen and raised with the tail lip. It is shorter due to the total length of the vehicle, reaches a stricter turn radius and has more rear cargo rooms. The new leaf also gets the work of the nose by dramatically reducing the front.
Turn off with pop -up front door handles, the first Nissan, improves airflow, like a full lower body sheet, better front tire air deflectors, flat wheel caps and a completely closed grill.
“We have worked with research and development so many times and again, with an aerodynamic analysis to understand this efficiency,” said Nobutaka Tase, program design director.
Better thermal control system integrates the heating and air conditioning system with battery and strength drive to improve overall performance.
The first handles of the Nissan manufacturing vehicles are flushed, pop -up door handles help to improve aerodynamics in a reorganized, third -generation sheet of ev.
The outgoing leaf partially integrated heating and air conditioner only with the battery.
The system also lets on the onboard navigation system to pre -select the best heating or cooling setting to move forward. If the car’s navigation determines that it is summer and that the upcoming route includes several heavy cargo scenarios such as climbing a hill, the system automatically adjusts the battery cooling mode to maintain energy and increase battery charge.
The size of the new Leaf battery also increases to 75 kilowatt -hours for the higher class, from 60 kWh before and up to 52 kWh input, from 40 kWh.
Nissan has not yet provided a 52 kWh battery range.
However, out of three 75 kWh packaging versions, the long distance edition is expected to be 303 miles (487 kilometers). The hardest of these, the top -notch Platinum+model, reaches 259 miles (341 kilometers).
On the contrary, the long range 2025 leaf EPA range was 212 miles.
In Europe and Japan, Nissan said the range would exceed 372 miles (598 kilometers) in the world -friendly passenger vehicle test cycle, which is considered milder than EPA tests.
The top Leaf model retains the 160 kilowatts of the engine, but the lower award graduate is 130 kW setups starting with the second generation of 110 kW engine.
Send us a letter to the editor
Do you have an opinion on this story? Tell us about it and we can post it by printing. Click here to submit a letter to the editor.