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If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
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Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you’ll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It’s sort of like listening to a hipster tell you why Interpol and The National have completely different sounds.
Nissan says it didn’t reinvent the Leaf because what the company has created is working. Over 25,000 Leafs have been sold in the US - 62,000 around the world - since the car went on sale in late 2010. That may not sound like a lot, but it’s heads and shoulders above any other all-electric car available anywhere. The car has its detractors - boy, does it ever - but Nissan knows it’s hard to argue with real-world success.
We recently spent a few hours driving the new Leaf - an SL-trim version, optioned out to $36,910 - around the hills of central Tennessee after a visit to Nissan’s new 475,000 square-foot battery plant. What we learned there provided a lot of hints about the company’s electric future. Nissan may be leading today, but company head Carlos Ghosn has made huge, multi-billion-dollar bets on zero-emission technology and the rest of the world has been very slow to prove him right.Continue reading 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
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