Built in February 2011, so this is one of the first Leafs (Leaves?) sold in the United States.
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The interior looks clean enough, and the airbags didn't fire.
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The gearshift looks like something from a mid-1980s video game, crossed with an original iMac.
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It appears that it got hit while parked. The rear suspension got bent and this car wasn't worth enough to fix.
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California was early to offer serious incentives for electric car purchases, so it makes sense that this car showed up in yard in the Golden State.
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This 80-kW AC motor made 107 hp and 207 lb-ft.
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The Leaf (or LEAF, if you prefer, since it's an acronym for Leading Environmentally Friendly Affordable Family Car) was the best-selling EV in the world for most of the 2010s.
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It may have been pushed into another parked car during the crash, or perhaps ham-handed junkyard shoppers have torn up the front bodywork in a parts-pulling frenzy.
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I expect to start seeing examples of the Fiat 500e and perhaps the Mitsubishi i-MiEV in these yards within a few years.
