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Are you looking to charge into the exciting, ever-expanding world of electric vehicles? Are you ready to leave gasoline behind? Are you ready to... turn over a new leaf?
Then get ready for the 2017 Nissan LEAF.
If you're wondering if "electric vehicle" is a wholly-accurate description of this hatchback, we're happy to say that it is. With nary a gas tank or tailpipe in sight, the Nissan LEAF is 100% electric.
Nissan decided that they wanted to reduce carbon emissions by 2016. The amount they were looking for was a 20 percent drop from their 2005 levels by 2016.
What they did instead was cut carbon by 22.6 percent by 2014, two years ahead of their goal.
To put that in perspective, we're talking about enough carbon dioxide that it would take 23,656,000 cedar trees to filter it out of the air -- 331,184 tons.
Nissan reached this goal so quickly because they formed Nissan Energy Saving Collaboration (NESCO) teams. NESCO audits manufacturing facilities around the globe…