Nissan Leaf prices in Europe announced

By Chris Anderson-Peters | May 19th, 2010

The Nissan Leaf will go on sale in Europe with prices starting under 29,000 Euros ($43,000) after incentives in most European countries.

Nissan LEAF

Reservations for the UK, Netherlands, Republic of Ireland and Portugal markets, for Nissan’s first all electric car will begin in July.

The prices, which include battery, are comparable to that of a diesel or hybrid vehicle.

The five seater Nissan Leaf comes standard with air conditioning, satellite navigation, a parking camera, a quick charge socket and innovative smart-phone connectivity.

Nissan said the reason behind its launch in these four specific European nations was government incentives as well as continued development of car-charging infrastructure.

Nissan Leaf will be available in every major Western European country by the end of 2010.

Nissan is yet to announce reservations for the Leaf, which arrives in Australian showrooms in 2012.

Price in UK is 23,350 Pounds (27,471 Euros) after government incentives
Price in the Netherlands is 32,839 Euros (28,068 Pounds). Dutch buyers will benefit from 6,000-19,000 Euros (5,128-16,239 Pounds) in tax savings over five years
Price in Republic of Ireland is 29,995 Euros (25,637 Pounds) after government incentives
Price in Portugal is 29,955 Euros (25,603 Pounds) after government incentives

Fenno

Why do we have to wait two years?
No doubt they would have been originally designed in RHD
Probably ADR’s (these need to be abolished)
CA how bout an article on some of the plums we have missed
over the last few years due to ADR’s
Aleks

Its probably because of our lack of infrastructure for the car. Not to mention no government grants.

Joober@work

Agree, no Charge station infrastructure means its pretty much an ornament.

and… whats with the name ‘leaf’ sounds embarrasing to say when people ask what car do you drive.

Fenno

I guess it’s no different than “Probe”

Vibe

So it should be north of $50,000 here, because of the lack of grants and infrastructure.

Andrew M

Yep, 50K+ by the sounds of things.

I’d be planting a couple of trees for 5 bucks each if I were worried about the environment.
Saving trees is the only point I can see to this

Shak

Well it would seem logical to bring the car out in the same year that Better Place is going to start building EV infrastructure in our major cities.
TV

I reckon it’s a bit short sighted to say it’s saving trees and planting trees instead would be better.

Consider the fact it’s zero emission which means no carbon monoxide, sulphides, diesel particulates and c02 you name it… that you and your families do not have to breathe in.

Here in NZ where 300 odd people die per annum from dirty air largely related to vehicle emissions, is the same number as the 300 odd who die from traffic accidents, or 300 odd men dying of prostate cancer. It’s only fair we attempt to put a comparable fight up against emission related illness and death as we do with cancers and roading accidents.

it’s for your lungs really not the trees.