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Nissan rolled out its Leaf electric car Friday, trumpeting its zero-emission technology and practicality with video of the hatchback zipping through snow and water.
The Leaf will be available in Canada in late 2011. Nissan chief operating officer Toshiyuki Shiga introduces the company's zero-emission electric car, the Leaf, during a news conference at its headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, on Friday. The Leaf will be available in Canada in late 2011. (Itsuo Inouye/Associated Press)The car, among the world's first mass-market electric vehicles, is already sold out until March because of limited production capacity. There have been 6,000 orders in Japan and 20,000 in the U.S.
More than 6,000 Canadians have expressed interest in purchasing a Leaf. It will be available in Canada in late 2011.
"This day has finally arrived," a grinning Toshiyuki Shiga, Nissan Motor Co.'s chief operating officer, said before posing for photographs with Japanese customers who had placed orders. "The curtains are about to rise for a new era in the auto industry."
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