News & Events

03-08-10 - 2009 Owner First Award Recipient

March 5, 2010 -- Union City, GA – March 05, 2010 – Nissan of Union City continues their constant strive towards excellence by winning the Nissan Owner First Award of Excellence for the second time in four years.

The Nissan Owner First Award of excellence is the highest award any Nissan dealership in the nation can receive by Nissan North America. To win the award once is a remarkable achievement, but to win it twice is incredible and puts Nissan of Union City on another level. In order to win this significant award, Nissan dealerships must meet the high standards and embody the philosophy and vision of Nissan North America.

Every Nissan dealership participating is given scores measured on a certain criteria format including Nissan’s Owner First survey. Surveys are sent out to

Nissan of Union City Wins the Prestigious Nissan Owner First Award of Excellence

customers after the purchase of a new Nissan vehicle or having a service done on their Nissan. Customers are Nissan’s top priority, which is why Nissan North America values every customers input and feedback to reward the dealerships meeting the high standards required.

03-10-10 - Nissan has a grand plan for full-size van

BY MARK PHELAN
FREE PRESS AUTO CRITIC

Nissan will challenge General Motors' and Ford's stranglehold on the market for full-size vans when it unveils its big NV today.The large van is the first from a foreign brand to go after a small but profitable business segment U.S. automakers have had to themselves. Nissan will build the van in its under-utilized Canton, Miss., assembly plant. The van shares its basic engineering with the Titan pickup Nissan builds inCanton.

"The commercial van segment has been relatively ignored" by domestic automakers, simply because there's not enough competition to force them to improve their vehicles, said Joe Castelli..........

03-10-10 - Got reservations? All-electric Nissan Leaf debuts in December

By SCOTT GUTIERREZ
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

In April, Nissan plans to start taking reservations from consumers interested in being first to purchase or lease the Leaf, the first all-electric, zero-emission vehicle designed for the mass market, according to the company.

The Leaf will debut in December along with the largest deployment yet of electric-vehicle charging stations for public use. Seattle is among five test markets getting an early test drive, along with 2,500 plug-in stations as part of The EV Project, a federally-funded study of electric-vehicle infrastructure.

The five-seat Leaf, with its 24-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery and top range of 100 miles on a full charge, has grabbed plenty of attention from auto enthusiasts. In the meantime, local planners are selecting sites for charging stations and ironing out technical details to get Seattle plug-in ready.

Nissan has teamed up with Arizona-based Electric Transportation Engineering Company, or eTec (a subsidiary of ECOtality), which was awarded a $99.8 million stimulus grant from the Department of Energy to develop and install the new charging station infrastructure. Together, Nissan and eTec are working with officials in Seattle and Oregon, Arizona, California, and Tennessee, where Nissan's North American headquarters is located.

"This is really a study of what kind of electric vehicle infrastructure is needed. We're using this to find out which charging stations are great locations and which charging stations are not great locations," said Rich Feldman, eTec's Pacific Northwest manager for planning and business development.

"This has worldwide significance in terms of the future of electric transportation," he said.

How do I participate?

You can sign up for more information through Nissan's Web site, www.nissanusa.com, or through The EV Project. Once the reservation process starts in April, consumers can pay a $99 refundable fee to get first priority when the company starts taking orders in August. With the reservation, you'll also get an assessment of your home's electrical readiness and an opportunity to express your interest in joining the study.

About 70,000 people have already registered, said Mark Perry, Nissan North America's director of products and planning. Nissan has committed to sell or lease 900 Leafs for the study, but expects to sell two to three times that many during the first year in.............