A lot of Leafs blowing around my LA neighborhood

The perfect plug-in for city folk? Where a plug-in electric car makes a lot of sense So, a new Chevy Volt ad finds the Volt telling its gas-guzzling parents that it’s electric. Even when the Volt is at the gas station converting gasoline into electricity, I wonder? Maybe. Nevertheless, it’s this EV focus that makes it so interesting how many Nissan Leafs are blowing around my neighborhood compared to Chevy Volts. Technically, GM can claim the Volt is an electric car. For 40 miles the Volt uses nothing but grid-powered electricity, before using an onboard generator to turn gasoline into electricity. Consequently, does it really matter whether that gasoline powers the wheels directly via an engine, or whether …
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