In the thick forest-savannah mosaic of northern Congo, many days' walk from any tarmac, your correspondent unearthed a milestone, half-buried in the leaf-litter, pointing to the small town of Badai, 15km to the east.
A. In addition to the coverage provided under the existing Nissan New Electric Vehicle Limited Warranty, this expanded warranty applicable to LEAF vehicles in the United States will protect against capacity loss in LEAF batteries that falls below nine bars, of the available 12 bars displayed on the vehicle's battery capacity gauge, for the first 5 years or 60, 000 miles, whichever comes first.
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Of course, there are some high-profile debuts, most notably the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, perhaps the most-hyped car in history, and the Nissan Leaf all-electric, both due in November.
I'm speaking, of course, about concerns regarding the rate of battery capacity loss in the Nissan LEAF's Lithium-ion battery.
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Trevor Mann at Nissan said the government had played "quite a significant role" in the carmaker's decision to build the Leaf in Sunderland.
Davis is willing, so as soon as the Cracker Barrel Electric Highway is in place (next summer sometime), we have a date to run the route in a Leaf (or other fine electric car that the manufacturer lets us borrow).
Both natural events bring the Japanese out en masse to celebrate the changing seasons, with hanami (cherry blossom viewing) parties in the springtime and momiji-gari (maple leaf viewing) in the fall.
About two centimetres of the powdered leaf sat in the base of the glass.
After that, any deadlines set in the January fig-leaf will kick in.
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The 2013 Nissan LEAF is offered in three well-equipped models, the LEAF S, LEAF SV and LEAF SL. Standard features include a 6-way manual driver's seat, 4-way manual front passenger's seat, trip computer (instant and average energy consumption, driving time, outside temperature and autonomy range), Automatic Temperature Control (ATC), center console storage and 3.6 kW onboard charger.
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Nissan estimates that after five years, the less effective batteries in a typical Leaf bring the range down to 55 miles.
Dimensionally, the Nissan LEAF falls in between the Nissan Altima and Nissan Versa, and like those vehicles provides room for five adults and a good-sized cargo area.
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There is almost as much statistical noise in the wettability of the paper and the leaf from one bag to the next as there is in dissolution rates, and small changes in manufacture usually matter more than anything the consumer on the teabag side can control.
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Some highlights of the show, for me, included a drive in the Volvo C30 electric, a ride from the airport in the Chevy Volt, a chance to see the Nissan Leaf on the brink of introduction, ambitious startups from Coda, Wheego and AMP Electric Vehicles, and a lot more.
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For these reasons I feel the way to play the "winner's game" is to strive to "be the market" (through the use of low-fee, passive-oriented investment strategies and a heavy emphasis on asset allocation) as opposed to trying to "beat the market" (by looking for the proverbial higher-fee, four-leaf clover in the vast fields of the investment landscape).
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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.
His first job as a singer came at the Maple Leaf Hotel in Timmins, Ontario, when the barman agreed to give him a beer if he would play a few songs.
It is the largest continuous area of primary broad leaf forest ecosystem in the whole sub-tropical zone.
Toyota executives wear green lapel pins on their suits and have plastered Toyota factories with images of a green leaf in the shape of a car.
The cost drops 30% on a Mediterranean hand-painted dinner plate if you get a painter to use a sponge cut in the shape of a leaf instead of laboring over brush strokes.
Nevertheless, Nissan is vulnerable in another way if demand for electric vehicles softens, because Nissan is building a dedicated factory in Tennessee to produce a much higher volume of the Nissan Leaf, starting in 2012.
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The populations which include the cocaleros (coca leaf growers) in Bolivia or the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) indeed have been key players in the election of leaders such as Evo Morales and Rafael Correa.
Aluminum was an expensive and fashionable new metal in the 1930s, and although silver leaf is more commonly used and cheaper today, Mr. Malkin went for aluminum and authenticity in the restoration by EverGreene Architectural Arts.
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My friend Paul Scott, vice president of Plug-In America, is so excited about the Leaf he took a day job selling them in California, and told me he has already moved 30.
The three higher-ranked cars in December were the all-electric Nissan Leaf, and two versions of the Toyota Prius.
Her colleagues would take photographs, and relatives of the missing would come to her office to leaf through the portfolio in the hope, or fear, of finding them.
In other green car news, Nissan announced that the 2013 Nissan Leaf will be more efficient, come with more features and charge in half the time as earlier models.
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