Nissan recently touted the fact that its all-electric LEAF is now available for order in 30 states in the U.S.

That’s great news. That means a large percentage of Americans now have the ability to order, and buy, an all-electric car, an option about 10,000 of them, and counting, have exercised so far.

It also means people in 20 states still can’t order a LEAF. And, given how long we in Colorado had to wait before we were able to order a LEAF – until October 2011, or about 1 ½ years after many of us Coloradoans reserved a LEAF – I feel for you in those 20 remaining LEAF-less states.

Nissan does say the LEAF will be available throughout the U.S. in 2012.

Revenge of the Electric Car, Chris Paine’s follow-up to the documentary film classic Who Killed the Electric Car, starts out a little bit like a gasoline car, meaning it takes awhile before it hits a high enough rpm to achieve full torque.

However, once it does – about 25 minutes into the film – Revenge stays revved up. And, by the time the credits start rolling about 60 minutes later, Paine’s taken the audience on another worthwhile trip into the future of motorized transportation– electric vehicles.

Wired.Com will be publishing a feature story that focuses on the synergy between solar and electric cars sometime soon.

Here’s another sign that solar-charged driving is on its way up: Wired.Com is doing a story on EV + PV for its Autopia section.

How do I know?

Keith Barry, the Wired.Com Autopia writer assigned to do the story interviewed me this afternoon.

I talked Barry’s ear off for 45 minutes :-)

This SunPower + Nissan video -- http://us.sunpowercorp.com/psp/nissan-leaf/ -- that illustrates how solar-charged driving works is yet more evidence of how much awareness of EV + PV is growing right now.

Okay, so I might be a little bit weird, but this SunPower + Nissan LEAF flash video just makes me smile.

Why?

It's a combination of self-satisfied smirkiness and happiness. The smirkiness comes from the "I told you so" and "I was right" part of me. When I discovered two and a half years ago that there were a small number of folks out there pioneering solar-charged driving, I knew then that it was absolutely going to take off.