On hot days she would rise to the surface, glowing and tantalising, with a lily-leaf shading her like a parasol.
His Nissan Leaf has a sat nav-like screen which lists charging points - but it's far from comprehensive.
Good thing you can pre-heat (or pre-cool) your Leaf like you can your oven.
From the outside, if you ignore the decals, the NSC-2015 looks like any other Leaf.
Until now, battery power has been seen as primarily a way to reduce emissions and improve fuel economy, whether with relatively conventional hybrids, like the Toyota Prius, with plug-ins, such as the new Chevrolet Volt, or with pure battery-electric vehicles, like the Nissan Leaf.
The advantages fuel-cell vehicles have over cars like the Leaf and Volt are shorter refueling times and greater range.
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That implies huge market-share growth for cars like the Volt and Leaf.
For a vehicle like the Nissan Leaf, which has 24 kilowatt-hours of onboard batteries, that cost could add up to thousands of dollars, even if a carmaker pockets some of the savings gained by making battery cars even more competitive in the controlled environment of a corporate or government fleet.
By the time Coda hit the market, it faced competitively priced rivals like the Nissan Leaf, the Ford Focus Electric and the plug-in electric Chevrolet Volt.
The most popular gift is mithai (Indian sweets), and shops are filled with a spectacular array specially prepared for this festival, from thickly cut squares of barfi (a fudge-like sweet, often coated with a thin film of edible silver leaf) , to soft syrupy gulab jamuns (deep-fried balls of dough) and spongy rasgullas (sweetened cream cheese balls flavoured with rose water).
There was the eco-tastic choice of materials for the Model S, like the compressed banana leaf veneer for your door and dashboard.
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For example, Atlanta's Sto Corp. created a self-cleaning paint that repels dirt whenever it gets wet, just like the lotus leaf does.
For those two reasons, the EV-1 project was cancelled, and when better battery technology DID finally become available, the Volt was built as an extended range car, with an on-board generator so that you will NOT get stranded like someone driving a Nissan Leaf.
Given his 6-foot-6, 250-pound frame, forward Chane Behanan looks like the sort of kid who ate every last leaf of spinach on his dinner plate growing up.
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Likewise, the study did not include either plug-in hybrids like the Chevrolet Volt or full electric vehicles like the Ford Focus Electric and Nissan Leaf that carry higher price premiums, but boast a greater fuel economy advantage.
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