In a bid to put a brave battle in front of Nissan Motor Co.'s Leaf, General Motors would unveil its all-electric Chevrolet small car in the US market in 2013.

According to a Saturday press release by Nissan Motors, 31-year-old Olivier Chalouhi, of Redwood City, California, has become the first person in the world to own a Nissan Leaf SF all-electric car.

The annual guidance of the Nissan Motor Co (7201. T) got raised. The company reported its quarterly operating profit doubling up with handsome sales of its new cars such as the March/Micra subcompact. The sales of those cars had compensated for the losses that the firm had to bear for currency rates.

Following the restriction imposed by China on shipments, Nissan Motor Co., Japan’s third largest carmaker is now hunting for some alternative sources of rare earth minerals.

The Company is said to have decided to bring about reduction in the amount of rare earths being used by it in motors for hybrid cars and explored recycled materials.

Japanese automaker giant, Nissan Motor Co. is reported to be in plans to boost its production capacity in world's biggest vehicle market to a double level by 2012.

Japan's third-largest automaker has recently unveiled a new factory on Monday in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou marking is plans to grab a bigger part of the world's biggest auto industry.

Emphasizing a drift for Japanese automakers to modify more production abroad, Nissan took the squashing off its new March subcompact on Tuesday, which is being made in Thailand for sale in Japan.

A most important expansion in Smyrna formally takes shape on Wednesday.

Delegates from Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. will unite with Gov., Phil Bredesen on Wednesday morning at the historic revolutionary for their new plant.

It was seen lately that Nissan Motor Co. in the United States had recalled 48,700 trucks and sports utility vehicles with a suspension part problem, but this recall won't be done to vehicles in New Zealand.

The leaf electric cars by Nissan Motor Co. will be soon come in market, which aim to cut the cost of the vehicle's lithium-ion battery pack to less than $370 per kilowatt-hour to make a profit from the model. The target is compared with the Japanese government's industry wide estimate of about 150,000 yen ($1,600) per kilowatt-hour.

On Thursday Nissan Motor Co said that its Leaf electric vehicle was on track to book 25,000 U. S. orders by the end of the year. It is assumed that the company would be making money from the green car.

It was noticed that around 8,000 U. S. reservations had been made by Nissan for its hatchback. In December this model would go on sale in the United States.