Nissan and AeroVironment Expand to Canada in Support of the Nissan LEAF
- Leading Infrastructure provider AeroVironment selected to supply home charging solutions -

Today Nissan Canada announced the reservation process for the Nissan LEAF, which will see the first Canadian consumers in the all-electric car this fall. Nissan will carefully manage the purchase process from the first step, when consumers sign up on www.nissan.ca/leaf, until the customer drives the Nissan LEAF home and plugs it into a personal charging dock. Early interest in the Nissan LEAF has been highly encouraging with over 15,000 Canadians registered on the microsite.


AV Aggressively Building Out Its Electric Vehicle Charging Business
As I continue covering the electric vehicle (EV) space, I will offer Seeking Alpha readers interviews with some of the industry's major players. In this article, I present a Q&A, conducted via email, with the SVP of AeroVironment's (AVAV) Efficient Energy Systems (EES) segment, Mike Bissonette. EES focuses on the electric vehicle charging market.


AV Joins Sierra Club & A Broad Coalition of Industry, Local Government & Public Interest Groups
Today more than 180 local and national companies and organizations joined together to show their support for plug-in electric vehicle (EV) policies and infrastructure –demonstrating the groundswell of support in all regions of the country for EV innovation and the types of policies needed to make it successful.


BMW Picks Home Rechargers For Next Electric-Car Foray
If you're going to get in the electric-car business, you'd better partner up with an outfit that knows something about recharging. That's what BMW is doing.

The German luxury brand has chosen a company called AeroVironment to install home recharging units when it starts its next big test of electric vehicles, its BMW ActiveE program.


The Future of Transportation is Here: eVgo Freedom Station Video



2011 Top Green Cars
Automotive valuation guide Kelly Blue Book named the Nissan Leaf electric vehicle the top green vehicle of 2011.

Kelly Blue Book is a widely used guide for car shopping — with terms like “blue book” and “blue book value” actually trademarked when referring to prices for a car. The company said the Leaf won out with a “ground-breaking combination of range, room and price.” The Chevy Volt, an electric car with a range-extending gas engine, came in behind the Leaf as the second best green car of 2011.


Popular Mechanics gets an AV Level 2 EV Charging Station - One Of The First NY Office Towers
Popular Mechanics' New Electric Vehicle Charging Station

Downstairs in Popular Mechanics' home base in New York, our newest pride and joy is online: PM's new charging station gave its inaugural charge to our Nissan Leaf, and our office at 300 West 57th Street became one of New York's first office towers with the capability to charge an electric car.

Here at Popular Mechanics, we've test-driven electric cars and covered the latest in car-charging tech. But now, if we want to charge up an electric vehicle, we can do it right in our own garage.

Downstairs in PM's home, at 300 West 57th Street in New York City, electricians have just completed the installation of a 208-volt charging station, making our home base one of the first office towers in the city with that capability. PM editor-in-chief James B. Meigs pulled up in our white test-drive edition of the Nissan Leaf so the station could let its inaugural burst of electrons flow.