The Nissan Leaf now on sale in the UK
Nissan has now opened the order book in the UK for the electric Nissan LEAF. Buyers can sign up online by paying a £257 deposit.
We happily admit that we don’t understand the desire to create a C-Segment electric car (certainly not a BEV). We also feel that the creation and marketing of such cars is potentially mis-leading, with many buyers believing an electric car can be a replacement for their family car.
Which it can’t. Not unless you never travel further than forty miles from home and are happy to suffer potentailly huge depreciation when the time comes to sell. C-Segment ‘family’ electric cars are in our view a nonsense.
But they’re here – and readers are interested – so for those who have thought things through and, despite everything, still want an electric car you need to know that the order book for the Nissan LEAF is now open in the UK.
Even Nissan are calling buyers of the LEAF ‘Motoring Pioneers’ which does at least acknowledge that the LEAF is not s sensible buy by any normal measure. Still, you can now get yourself on the list for a LEAF – which will start deliveries in March 2011 – by hopping over to Nissan’s LEAF reservation site and signing up by paying a (refundable) £257 deposit.
Just remember; you’re not buying a car. Just a glorified motoring statement.
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