The new Nissan Leaf is fun. Can it transform the electric-vehicle market?
by Justin Worland
Sep 23, 2017
2 minutes
DRIVING THE NEW NISSAN LEAF WILL TAKE AN UNINITIATED electric-car operator—like me—by surprise. During a two-day test drive on Washington, D.C.–area streets and highways, the Leaf accelerated fast, ran silently and allowed me to use a feature letting the driver never touch the brake pedal. Add to that a sleek redesigned exterior and you have a vehicle that will impress even a hardened electric-vehicle skeptic.
But those elements are just
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