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Nissan is planning to help earthquake struck home owners in Japan, who suffer from power outages to be able to power their homes via its Leaf products electric battery.

Initially, Nissan quoted the Leaf's estimated range at an even 100 miles. From the beginning, we knew that this number was more or less an average of what the car could travel between charges and not a figure that was set in stone for all drivers on any given day. Recently, the automaker laid out some variable range estimates that took weather variations, speed, HVAC settings and more into account.

General Motors and Nissan dominate the list of 14 cars being considered for the 2011 North American Car of the Year. The list, released Thursday, includes two electric vehicles, Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf.

Yesterday was an important one for General Motors, with the new Spark and Spark EV, the Cadillac CUE system, and new engines announced, but a hacked WiFi network put a different spin on things.

We admit it, we don't like leaf spring-based suspensions. They may have been fine when this now-radical RS Camaro was new and their shortcomings were not so glaring given the stock horsepower, bias ply tires and drum brakes of the day all conspired to hold the car back performance-wise.