2010 Nissan Leaf Electric Vehicle Officially Revealed

Nice with more eletrical cars. But why that frog design:S

I think it really looks great! I would consider buying the car. Just think essentially no maintenance. No tuneups, fan belts, spark plugs, radiator problems, etc.

finally! welcome to the era of electric cars! brilliant!

I hate the design. Makes the Prius look pretty. But other than that, I think this electric concept is a good idea.

What's with the odd Honda Civic style interior? It sux!

great, love it, love the idea...& love it beat the GM Volt in almost everything!! who's gonna buy the Volt? stupid.

I still say its boring! give us an electric car with no 8 hours of charging please!

Bravo Nissan ! Let the future begin... Sure 8 Hrs Charge for 160km sux a bit but we have to start somewhere - Just include a Petrol engine Soundtrack CD to satisfy the Revhead in me and it's all go. Ay OPEC/Middle East ? Get ready to not have the rest of the world held to ransom over a barrel of Oil.... And get ready to be the Next Africa !

'Its brake regenerative system helps it recoup wasted energy...' - cool do you get a KERS push to pass button too?

"Nothing has been said about recharging during power outages though." Um well thats because there is no recharging during a power outage.

Love it! you plug it in before you go to sleep, wake up, and the car is ready to go. How awesome!

i guess we could always throw this into the tams, lol im sure it only takes 4 people to lift.

Design is nice and taut, modern platform. The back end looks substantial but the front is pretty is not aggressive and abit too small. How big is it compared to a Versa? Will they offer premium packages?

Good job Nissan for this one- got to start somewhere!

The UGLY VERSA just got UGLIER. What would be the cost of recharge?

kmayb, what d'u mean by OPEC/Middle East becoming the next Africa!

I think the range of this car is still limited. What it needs is a provsion to plug in additional batteries for longer trips or emergencies (as opposed to waiting for it to RE-charge). Rather like carrying a jerrycan in a conventional car. I like it though

I don't want to offend anyone but Africa and the middle east (and other places of course.) are what one might call a tribal society that have so many different political factions that they are vgenerally dealing with differences of opinion based on race, class or religion. As a result there is always fighting , unrest or even worse among these countries and their neighbours. The unfortunate thing is that the middle east hold a major part of the world's most valuable resourse - OIL. Oil makes them rich enough to be a concern to the rest of the world unlike Africa that has a similar society but without the wealth of oil, their problems remain within their own countries and not so much the rest of us. Take Iran and the possibility they can develop Nuclear weapons. i don't think they could afford to do this without the money they make from oil. We in the west should always try to help and respect all countries but some just don't beleive in the same values we do it's just as long as we spend money buying their oil in such huge amounts the more we have to be concerned by these states that just dont like us. That is why i like this little Nissan so much because when we power with electricity we have more control over our own destiny as a society.

"Nothing has been said about recharging during power outages though."... that must be a total conundrum for some people!

This car is very impressive for an electric vehicle. A 24 Kwh battery pack can be very large. I just put a 21Kwh A123 pack into an SUV for a University competition and it was 600 lbs! An impressive 100 mile range and seating for 5 will help sell these things. If they can get the price down to a compact car level then I would seriously consider buying one.