Nissan is no doubt as proud as a peacock of the electric Leaf. Since the model’s introduction, Nissan has produced half a million of them over two generations.
At the beginning of 2018, Nissan proudly announced that it had delivered its 300,000th Leaf. Last year, the electric hatchback broke through the 400,000 mark and now the production counter stands at no less than 500,000.
The current second generation Leaf is produced in the United States and Japan as well as in the English Sunderland, although it is the English location where the 500,000th copy of the band was run. The half-millionth Leaf is a red specimen that has found an owner in Norway.
According to Nissan, all Leaf owners have driven a total of 14.8 billion ‘clean miles’ since the introduction of the first generation in 2010. That is roughly about 370,000 circles around the earth.
The Netherlands
Since the Dutch market introduction of the Leaf, which took place in 2011, 11,592 Leafs have been sold in our country. In the starting year 2011, 299 copies found an owner. The following year, sales fell slightly to 269 units. In 2013 472 copies found a home. In that year, the Leaf was already slightly modified, which resulted, among other things, in a growth of the range from 175 to 200 kilometers. Last year, the Leaf, now generation two, had its peak year. Then 3,817 copies found a Dutch owner.