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Nissan's Zero Worship


Posted Friday, November 13, 2009 - 7:16pm

Nissan LeafAbove, you can see the business end of a Nissan Leaf, the 100-mile-per-charge, all-electric car that Nissan will begin selling next year (the charging ports are located right between the headlights). I attended a sunsplashed media even in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium today (read: it was toasty hot, even for November).

  • Matthew DeBord has written about the auto industry for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huffington Post. Follow him on Twitter.

Megan McArdle Doesn’t Heart Electric Cars


Posted Friday, November 13, 2009 - 1:18pm

Over at the Atlantic, econoblogger Megan McArdle offers deep skepticism about electric cars in general and Chrysler’s now-defunct E.V. program, ENVI, in particular. OK, she has a point about the promotion of ENVI being a cynical play on the part of Chrysler to secure bailout funds pre-bankruptcy.

  • Matthew DeBord has written about the auto industry for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huffington Post. Follow him on Twitter.