2017 Nissan Leaf Renderings: How Conservative Will Design Be?

It's long been acknowledged that the current Nissan Leaf electric car is a radical and distinctive design, just as the landmark 2004 Toyota Prius hybrid was.

But some portion of potential buyers, who may be amenable to the benefits of driving a battery-electric vehicle, won't consider the Leaf because of its "weird" looks.

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Now the British magazine Auto Express has produced five renderings of what it thinks the next-generation 2017 Nissan Leaf will look like.

They're entirely speculative, but they're based on the styling language of Nissan's design concepts and latest vehicles, including the 2015 Murano crossover.

Click on the magazine name above to see the full gallery of images, only one of which we've excerpted for this article.

The article itself largely recaps what we know about the next-generation Nissan Leaf, which will likely be launched during 2016 as a 2017 model.

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The 2017 Leaf will offer two or three different range options, based on lithium-ion battery packs with different capacities--following the model pioneered by Tesla Motors for its Model S luxury sedan.