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Nissan's new electric car, the Leaf, will get the equivalent of 99 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving, based on government testing.

The Obama Administration will lend Tesla Motors $465 million to build an electric sedan and the battery packs needed to propel it.

The government is poised to disclose that Ford, Tesla and Nissan will be among the first beneficiaries of a $25 billion loan program to help develop fuel-efficient vehicles.

President Barack Obama is asking consumers to put their money -- up to $1,300 per new vehicle by 2016 -- behind his plan for higher efficiency standards for cars and trucks and tougher rules on their greenhouse gas emissions.