Head To Head: Three Plug-Ins

When Toyota provided us one of its Prius Plug-In demonstration vehicles — from a test fleet of roughly 160 copies across the country — we saw an opportunity to drive the first three mass-market plug-ins head to head. The contenders are Cars.com's long-term Nissan Leaf (a simple battery-electric car) and Chevrolet Volt (an electric with a gas-powered range extender) and the Prius Plug-In, which is a regular Prius that can be plugged in and topped off before you drive, thanks to a higher-capacity lithium-ion battery pack.

Joe Wiesenfelder

March 24, 2011