The new generation of the Nissan Leaf has been barely introduced in 2017, and it has already received over 20,000 orders across Europe alone. In its nearly eight years of existence, the single electric vehicle in the Nissan lineup has arrived in the garages of 300,000 people across the world.
Its rivals might be going down a fully-electric patch – think Porsche and the Mission E – but Lamborghini thinks battery-powered technology doesn’t currently gel with its brand characteristics.
Nissan, one of the pioneers of affordable electric cars for the masses, is now expanding its electric vehicle lineup eight years after the introduction of the Leaf.
After decades of driving conventional vehicles, one gets used to the idea of shifting gears, multispeed transmissions an absolute necessity in combination with an internal combustion engine. In an electric vehicle, perhaps one comes to the conclusion that a multispeed transmission would be a given, but practically none of them do. Are electric vehicle transmissions necessary to improve performance? First, let’s take a look at why we have multispeed transmissions in the first place.