Nissan Leaf: ‘Much more than simply a car with an electric motor’ | Martin Love
by Martin Love from Technology | The Guardian on (#3TG01)
Nissan's second-generation electric car is charging ahead of the crowd
Nissan Leaf
Price 21,190
0-62mph 7.9 seconds
Top speed 89mph
Range 235 miles
CO2 0, while driving
Clean, efficient, silent, relentless" the cars of the future will all be powered by electric motors. Yet this advanced technology actually dates back to Victorian times when battery-powered horseless carriages shimmied around the streets of London and Paris. The first land speed record was set in 1898 by Count de Chasseloup-Laubat in an electrically driven Jeantaud - he briefly touched 39mph.
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