Nissan's 2016 Leaf currently has a charge of about 107 miles per charge. But there's speculation that the automaker will roll out a 200-mile range Leaf sooner than expected.
And considering that Nissan has been in the EV space for sometime, it wouldn't be surprising if the car maker surprised us all and came out with a new EV later this year or next.
Last year, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn also hinted that the company had something in the works.
As InsideEVs pointed out, Ghosn made the following comment about battery technology at Mobile World Congress in March 2015: "...like any new technology the costs are going down, because there is much more efficiency, much more supply base moving in. So I’m much more optimistic that we are going to get to something much more competitive in the next year to come."
In June 2016, another Nissan executive told AutoGreen that a Leaf with a 60 kWh battery is coming, but did not share when it would launch.