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.
Leaf This was the trade group’s first U.S. crash test evaluations of plug-in and pure electric cars.
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