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If you read or watch the news, you know that Nissan Motor Co. has been struggling to meet demand for its hot-selling, pure-electric LEAF. Well, according to more recent reports it may face additional tribulations when it resumes taking orders.

To put Nissan's situation into perspective: In the fiscal year, starting in April, the Japanese automaker has capacity to produce 50,000 LEAFS. This might seem like more than enough for a new electric car. However, 17,000 of those 50,000 LEAFS will go toward fulfilling existing orders. Nissan ultimately expects to be consumed with filling existing orders…

The Leaf (short for Leading Environmentally-friendly Affordable Family) become the first electric vehicle to win European Car of the Year. The car officially launched in the US this month, and Nissan it expects to gain a huge following and time goes on.

"The Leaf will serve as a standard, a benchmark, for other manufacturers when they build new electric vehicles," said Mamoru Kato, auto analyst at Tokai Tokyo Research Center.

The all-electric Leaf is touted as an "evolutionary step from petrol-electric hybrids" as the car emits zero-emissions. It and other electric vehicles' carbon footprint is determined by the way the…