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Everything we know about the 2026 Nissan Leaf

arstechnica.com

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Man, I sure hope they finally get rid of chademo... There's no way they'll again fuck up the plug, right?
Instead of a slow and clunky CHAdeMO connector, the Leaf rocks a Tesla-style NACS port for DC fast charging.
Good. I mean, for the US. I'll just guess they have CCS for the rest of the world.
Interestingly, the car also has a SAE J-1772 connector for AC charging. The driver's side fender has the J plug, while the passenger side fender has the NACS.
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Wat?
Confusingly, the NACS connector is only for DC fast charging. If you're going to level 2 charge, you must use the J plug or a NACS connector with an adapter. It's weird, but the car will make it obvious to owners if they plug into the wrong connector.
Yup, they fucked it up.
- I can understand having both charging connectors, as it means you can charge anywhere without an adapter.
  I don't understand them having different functionality though.
- Thats exactly what I thought when I read that. Like what the fuck are they actually thinking?
- In europe, it will finally come with CCS. That's what everyone uses here.
  Unlike previous Leafs, the new car will be equipped in the UK with a CCS charging system, rather than a Chademo one, which can take DC rapid-charging rates of up to 150kW.
  Source: Autocar
  
  German source says it'll still have two charging ports. It's just weird.
Why did they have to make it a Murano? The only thing I thought was nice about the original leaf was that it was smaller than most electric cars.
- Market share as a percentage of EVs dropped from gen one to gen two, my guess is they blamed that on it not being a SUV rather on them charging too much for gen two vs. gen one. Larger car also means being able to charge more, batteries are about half the cost to make an ev still.
  It was £22k in 2014, for a 22kwh battery, or over £30k today, utter madness. Today I can buy same sized battery in a brand new small hatchback for less than £20k.
  Gen two also undersized the battery vs what the price point was set vs expectations at for the initial models. They should have lead with the 40kw and 62kw models but I guess they had problems sourcing the batteries.
- Same with that new bolt.
  
  I'm a little more forgiving with the bolt because it isn't that much bigger, and it isn't completely fugly anymore.
- Because all middle managers all have the same ideas
- The size is about the same with a lower drag coefficient.
  The 2026 Leaf is 3 inches shorter (76 mm) than the current hatchback, although the wheelbase is only 0.4 inches (10 mm) shorter. The new Leaf is 0.8 inches (20 mm) wider but the same height as the old car, and has a lower drag coefficient.
The screen looks like they just copied and pasted BMW's version
Loved my original leaf ready for a new one.
Is this considered Leaf peeping because I feel like that would be more precisely being a tourist in an area purely to spy on used older Nissa Leafs whose batteries are beginning to reach the end of their life?
Also, the US needs a cottage industry of car mechanics willing to replace old EV vehicle batteries with newer/refreshed batteries because why would we not be doing this...
I don't mean to distract from turning over a new Leaf, just some thoughts I had.
So they crossbred their Ariya with a Leaf?
Looks like it will still have lots of physical controls. (as it should)
Having buttons for “gear” selection is certainly a choice though.

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