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James Murray spends a week with a Nissan Leaf and finds that while challenges remain for the EV revolution, the car itself is truly astounding

I don't particularly like cars. I don't hate them in the way some environmentalists do; I understand the polluting impacts and the congestion and the carbon emissions, but I also grew up in the countryside...

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