Globe and Mail: Toyota’s 8.5 million vehicle recall, including more than 300,000 units of its best-selling Prius hybrid, couldn’t have come at a better time for Nissan. The Japanese auto maker, which sold 770,000 vehicles in the U.S. last year compared to Toyota’s 1.7 million, is launching its own potentially revolutionary green car this spring: the plug-in electric Nissan Leaf. “We believe that people settled for hybrids because that was the best technology available,” says Mark Perry, …