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Here's a very literal interpretation of an electric vehicle (EV) cleaning up a city, as Nissan's EV powers a graffiti artist's work... no, no, bear with us on this one, he really was cleaning something, as opposed to defacing it.
You see, in one of those neat double-meaning episodes that PR firms are so fond of, the Leaf has tidied up a tiny area of London that was made dirty by the emissions from fossil-fuelled vehicles, using some 'reverse graffiti'.
This is a process where an artist - in this case, the 'founder of his field', Moose - creates his masterpiece by strategically cleaning the dirt off walls to leave an image in negative, if you will.
The cleansing is done by either a wire brush or a jet-washer, so - bringing the Leaf into play - a jet-washer was used that was powered by the car via the 'Leaf to Home' equipment, a portable device that converts electricity from the car's battery to provide as much as two days' worth of power to a household on a single charge.
Moose used the Leaf-wash to create a massive mural in the subway on Station's Approach, Waterloo, with the image depicting many of the famous landmarks that make up London's skyline.
And by cutting an artistic swathe through the accumulated urban grime of exhaust emissions, Nissan reckons this shows how much cleaner the world's cities could be if everyone just bought a Leaf. And you thought graffiti was just mindless vandalism, eh?
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