"MONTREAL — Let’s get one thing straight right off: the Nissan Leaf electric car is a fine piece of engineering.
It achieves the objectives its planners set out for it, and functions very well as an automobile — except for a minor no-start condition I encountered, about which more anon.
Canadian customers can go online and reserve their Leaf now, starting at $38,395, with first deliveries scheduled for later this fall.
The larger question is: does the Leaf — does any pure electric car — make any sense?
Or is the entire Leaf program a multi-billion dollar public relations exercise instituted by Nissan to counter the fact that archrival Toyota has captured the high ground on hybrids, whose practicality is at least as equally dubious?"
Em: http://www.thestar.com/wheels/article/1 ... -any-sense
