I Tried Driving an Electric Car in New York City for Two Weeks

This is what happened

The dashboard of the 100% electric Nissan LEAF SL (photo by Paul Greenberg)

In a book I just published called The Climate Diet one of the suggestions I make to reduce your carbon footprint is “If you have to drive, drive electric.” I wrote it because that seemed to be the consensus of all the different environmental organizations I consulted when I sat down to write the book.