With reluctance, Reeves recommends, "a yard-wide spray with one of the leaf-toxic insecticides that include pyrethrin -- it's considered organic and doesn't smell, " he said.
The firm is planning to put the batteries in a new five-seater family car called the Leaf that it intends to launch late next year in Japan and America as part of its alliance with Renault.
The warranty on the previous-generation LEAF's battery covered it against defective materials or workmanship for five years.
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Among less expensive solutions, Nissan engineered the 2013 Leaf with a new range-extending drive mode the company says can increase the distance it can travel on a single charge by up to 15%, to 84 miles, by allowing the customer to choose to use up 100% of the energy stored in the battery.
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By the time Coda hit the market, it faced competitively priced rivals like the Nissan Leaf, the Ford Focus Electric and the plug-in electric Chevrolet Volt.
Keene couldn't use regular paint because the sun and the elements would ruin it, so he used gold-leaf metals in blue, gold and green.
He and a friend bought a leaf-filled, waterlogged motorboat in frigid December with the idea of fixing it up to sell in the summer.
"We're pleased the label clearly demonstrates the Nissan LEAF to be a best-in-class option, reflecting that it's a pure electric vehicle, uses no gas, has no tailpipe and has zero emissions, " said Scott Becker, senior vice president, Finance and Administration, Nissan Americas.
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But the reason for the disassembly of the light-gathering apparatus is to recover as many valuable chemicals as possible from each leaf before it drops.
For example, Atlanta's Sto Corp. created a self-cleaning paint that repels dirt whenever it gets wet, just like the lotus leaf does.
After 20 minutes and a few Singhas, it's not hard to believe that the worldwide market for banana-leaf place mats is hugely underexploited.
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They sound and move like zombies, and if their hands move at all, it is to assume the military at-ease position or a fig-leaf pose.
It is the largest continuous area of primary broad leaf forest ecosystem in the whole sub-tropical zone.
It depends on unshaken confidence that Cuba has the finest leaf, the most artisanal cigar-making factories and the best craft tradition.
Pick up the Senate health-care bill yes, all 2, 074 pages and leaf through it.
When it was established in 1993, the tribunal was widely seen as a fig-leaf to hide the pusillanimity of the western powers, who did not want to intervene in the conflagration devouring the Balkans.
After several days of defiance, Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei announced Monday that it would abide a recommendation from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that it divest of U.S. technology company 3-Leaf.
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Denuded of its foreign-policy fig leaf, the station's continued existence would then be even harder to justify than it is now.
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That the company thought it could just circumvent CFIUS carrying that kind of historical baggage and quietly purchase 3-Leaf last May speaks to a profoundly amateurish decision-making process at Huawei, or an imperative to conceal something.
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Nissan just announced that it will ramp up U.S. assembly of the 2013 model year all-electric LEAF at its manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tenn.
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