One thing you'll have to get used to in the Nissan Leaf is the shifter - it's completely different from the PRNDL layout of traditional automatic transmissions.
If they also reduce charging times by half, (you could recharge 160 miles in 10 minutes) I don't care how it looks, this will be superior to every cat that takes 20 or even 30 minutes to recharge the same range.
I wish more companies would offer it in their entire vehicle ranges, but so far, 2016 Nissan Leaf Pittsfield is the only non-luxury brand to have it as an option on anything from the Versa (or Note for our friends across the Atlantic) to the Armada.
Masato Inoue, chief of production, he stressed that this will be the first compact moving only electricity, and will be available in a wide range of users, for everyday needs.