A look at hybrids, clean diesels, and EVs rolling out for 2010
2011 Nissan Leaf
The Nissan Leaf is a pure electric car that will go on sale sometime in the next year or so. Nissan is being tight lipped with most of the technical details, but here's what we know: It'll have a range of about 100 miles, will take about 4-8 hours on a household 220 volt to recharge (overnight in other words) and will get an 80 percent charge at a high-capacity charging station in about 26 minutes. That's a lot of "abouts," but it the best sounding one is the price: about the same as similarly sized family cars.