2011 Nissan Leaf - first mass produced pure electric zero emission car

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Originally Posted by Kal-El

Although nuclear generated electricity is truly zero emission.

Nuclear power is not zero emission. The highly toxic and radioactive emissions and residuals are captured and stored locally for generations as there's nowhere else to put it. Even the people that get their power from nuclear plants don't want the byproducts stored anywhere near their region.

Aside from that uranium and its cousins are highly finite and non-renewable materials. It's a dead end with barely-contained devastating aftereffects.

I'm all for EVs, and Nissan's Leaf is a great start, but please refrain from pimping nuclear energy in the same breath.