Uncle Sam just loaned Nissan $1.4 billion to retool a factory in Smyrna, Tennessee to start building its new all electric car, the Leaf.  This little puppy is supposed to get 100 miles a charge and cost under $30,000.
Over the course of the next few years I think we will have a small revolution in the auto industry where these cars are going to become the norm.  Light, cheap, efficient automobiles that lessen our dependency on oil.  It makes we wonder about the Volt, though.  It seems that its “spec” …