Nissan Leaf is a one hundred percent galvanic car that will appear on the market from December 2010. Agreeing to Wikipedia the name Leaf comes from "Leading, Environmentally friendly, Affordable, family car."
The model is a covenant 5-door hatchback that runs only on galvanic motor. Agreeing to the specifications, we can go with this car a length of between 130-175 kilometers before you need to reload the batteries. The time you can spend in front of the steering wheel of this car depends on assorted factors such as temperature, speed, driving style and load. But do not worry because the manufacturers have introduced to this model of Nissan a regenerative braking ideas (regenerative breaking) that uses the energy, that results from braking, to charge car batteries, extending the autonomy of running.
The car has an galvanic motor production of 80 kW, a join of 280 Nm motors and speed that can reach practically 150 kilometers per hour.
The official Nissan site, have not specified exactly the life time of batteries, but they said that they reported this time to the median miles made by an urban environment person, so the batteries can be used for years. It all depends on how the car is used and maintained.
This is the first time in history when a one hundred percentage galvanic car, Nissan leaf, gets the unlikeness of "The Car of the Year." It's fabulous that Nissan Leaf reached to the final with Alfa Romeo Giulietta, Opel Meriva, Ford C-Max, Citroen C3, Volvo S60 and Dacia Duster. Even more, it surpassed the Giulietta model from Alfa Romeo with nine points and with thirteen points the Meriva model of the Opel.
The participating cars were voted by a jury of 59 members from 23 countries. Among the jury had participated Steve Cropley, representatives of Autocar.co.uk, who said that he supported very much the galvanic model of Nissan, so it was his first choice on the voting list, and the second choice was the Dacia Duster model.
Other awards of this fabulous car are: popular Mechanics 2010 Breakthrough Award, the 2010 Green Car of the Year by "The Green Car Website", 2011 European Car of the Year, one of the five finalists for the 2011 Green Car of the Year awarded by the Green Car Journal, and one of the 50 best inventions of 2009 named so by Time magazine.
The Nissan Leaf Awards is a clear sign that there is a very good time to come for the green car industry.
Nissan Leaf Is The Car Of The 2011 Year In Europe