Nissan Leaf Available in Six Dealers

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You have prepared a Nissan leaf now? And need to remember there come into the Nissan dealer that has been designated, all retailers will also have a new EV relationship managers are trained to act as a single point of contact at the dealership for customer Leaf.

Nissan has added another six locations to its dealer network equipped to sell and service 100% electric Nissan LEAF, ruled the European Car of the Year. The dealers have been appointed to further enhance regional coverage for customers LEAF in the UK and take the number of dealers Nissan EV to 32.

New Nissan EV dealers will benefit from a fully EV trained relationship managers who will become the single contact point for customers of Nissan LEAF.

Following the six dealers who have joined

-Holdcroft Nissan, Stoke
-Macklin Motors, Glasgow
-Trenton, Hull
-WLMG, Reading
-WLMG, Mill Hill
-Wessex garages, Bristol

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Nissan Leaf electric vehicle using solar power

Nissan Leaf

Nissan has demonstrated a super-green way to recharge its Leaf battery car - using solar power.
Japanese automaker Nissan is testing a super-green way to recharge its Nissan Leaf electric vehicle using solar power.

Electricity generation and storage for regular consumers are drawing attention in Japan after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami caused massive blackouts in the countrys northeast.
With the country steeped in power-saving mode, energy generation has become all the rage among Japanese automakers.

Nissan Motor Co on Monday unveiled a new charging system that gets electricity from solar power that can also be stored in the lithium-ion batteries used in its Nissan Leaf electric car.

The 488 newly installed solar panels at Nissans global headquarters will produce enough electricity to charge 1,800 Nissan Leaf a year, allowing drivers plugging into one of its seven charging spots to travel on carbon-free energy.

The firm is targeting cumulative sales equivalent to 100,000 electric cars worth of second-life batteries in 2020.

Two weeks ago, Toyota Motor Corp began a test-run of a model home that manages electricity consumption and taps into weather forecasts to maximise the use of solar power. The project, led by Toyota City and comprising about two dozen companies, will run a trial through 67 houses to be sold by Toyotas housing unit, Toyota Home, by the end of 2013.

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Carlos Ghosn 2011 Nissan Leaf sold out

If you aren’t already on the list to purchase a 2011 Nissan Leaf, you’re officially out of luck. During a speech to the Detroit Economic Club today, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn announced that the U.S. market allotment for the first year’s production of Leafs is already sold out more than six months before the EV even goes on sale. Nissan has now received 13,000 orders for the $32,780 electric car – quite impressive for a vehicle almost no one’s driven.

So far, the orders are comprised of refundable $99 deposits, so it will be interesting to see how sales and orders hold up once people begin getting calls from dealers. Prior to going on sale in 2008, the Smart ForTwoalso received thousands of orders before deliveries began – and we all know how well that turned out. While the Leaf will undoubtedly be a much more pleasant and practical car to drive than the Smart, it remains to be seen how customers will react once they get used to the real world electric range.

Ghosn remains extremely bullish on electric vehicles and will be adding production capacity in both the United States and Europe over the next three years.

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