Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Leaf, Volt electric vehicles get top safety marks

  6:03pm

The first of the new mass-market electric cars have won the highest safety ratings from an insurance industry trade group.

The Nissan Leaf, which is a powered only by electricity, and the Chevrolet Volt, which technically is a plug-in hybrid vehicle because it also has a small gasoline engine, were named Top Safety Picks by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. 

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