Nissan was the first to make a EV even before Tesla and China EV's with the Leaf but Nissan did not proceed further after internal squabble which led to ouster of ghosn and jap hierarchy back in charge.
However current Chinese EV is of a higher standard.
In 2007, Ghosn led the Renault–Nissan Alliance into the mass-market zero-emission
electric car market in a major way, and committed €4 billion (more than $5 billion) to the effort. In 2008, he confirmed that Nissan–Renault would bring an "entire lineup" of zero-emission electric cars to the worldwide market by 2012. In 2009, he told the University of Pennsylvania's
Wharton School of Business, "If you're going to let developing countries have as many cars as they want—and they're going to have as many cars as they want one way or another—there is absolutely no alternative but to go for zero emissions. And the only zero-emissions vehicle available today is electric ... So we decided to go for itit. The
Nissan Leaf, an electric car billed as "the world's first affordable zero-emission car",By 2017, the Renault–Nissan Alliance was the world leader in electric vehicles, selling more than twice as many electric cars as
Tesla, and the Nissan Leaf was the world's best-selling electric vehicle by a wide margin.