As Nissan Leaf charged past the milestone of 20,000 sales in the UK, owners of the best-selling electric vehicle have heaped praise on the model in the 2017 Driver Power survey.
The Leaf was awarded Best Green Car overall and also came top in the Best Engine and Gearbox and Best MPG and Running Costs awards categories.
Driver Power is the UK’s biggest and most in-depth car satisfaction survey, with seven surveys covering the different phases of vehicle ownership. There also nine Judging Category awards split into satisfaction categories.
The Driver Power results came as Nissan confirmed it had sold its 20,000th Nissan Leaf in the UK. The buyers of the milestone model were Diane and Chris Ray of Hollesley in Suffolk, who took home a range-topping 30kWh Leaf Tekna from local dealer Hammond Nissan.
It is the couple’s second Nissan Leaf - replacing a two year-old 24kWh model - and it was the only car on their shopping list when the time came for a replacement.
The Nissan Leaf is the world’s best-selling all-electric vehicle. Since its 2010 launch, the UK has been responsible for around one in four Leaf sales in Europe with sales accelerating year on year. Between January and March 2017, every other electric vehicle sold in the UK was a Nissan.
The UK is the third biggest market for the Leaf, after the U.S. and Japan. It is the number one market for global e-NV200 sales. The Nissan Leaf first appeared in UK dealerships in March 2011. It took four years to achieve 10,000 sales, just over another year to 15,000 and a further eight months to pass 20,000.
Nissan’s Sunderland plant is responsible for production of the Leaf for UK and Europe. 19,500 models rolled off the production line from April 2016 to end of March 2017 - around 55 a day.
At the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, Nissan announced that a new Leaf will be coming in the near future. It represents the next chapter of Nissan Intelligent Power and will build on the company's leadership in electric vehicles, which includes more than 260,000 Nissan Leafs sold worldwide since 2010 and more than 15,000 e-NV200 LCVs since 2014. Nissan’s customers have collectively driven more than three billion all-electric km.
The Leaf was awarded Best Green Car overall and also came top in the Best Engine and Gearbox and Best MPG and Running Costs awards categories.
Driver Power is the UK’s biggest and most in-depth car satisfaction survey, with seven surveys covering the different phases of vehicle ownership. There also nine Judging Category awards split into satisfaction categories.
The Driver Power results came as Nissan confirmed it had sold its 20,000th Nissan Leaf in the UK. The buyers of the milestone model were Diane and Chris Ray of Hollesley in Suffolk, who took home a range-topping 30kWh Leaf Tekna from local dealer Hammond Nissan.
It is the couple’s second Nissan Leaf - replacing a two year-old 24kWh model - and it was the only car on their shopping list when the time came for a replacement.
The Nissan Leaf is the world’s best-selling all-electric vehicle. Since its 2010 launch, the UK has been responsible for around one in four Leaf sales in Europe with sales accelerating year on year. Between January and March 2017, every other electric vehicle sold in the UK was a Nissan.
The UK is the third biggest market for the Leaf, after the U.S. and Japan. It is the number one market for global e-NV200 sales. The Nissan Leaf first appeared in UK dealerships in March 2011. It took four years to achieve 10,000 sales, just over another year to 15,000 and a further eight months to pass 20,000.
Nissan’s Sunderland plant is responsible for production of the Leaf for UK and Europe. 19,500 models rolled off the production line from April 2016 to end of March 2017 - around 55 a day.
At the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, Nissan announced that a new Leaf will be coming in the near future. It represents the next chapter of Nissan Intelligent Power and will build on the company's leadership in electric vehicles, which includes more than 260,000 Nissan Leafs sold worldwide since 2010 and more than 15,000 e-NV200 LCVs since 2014. Nissan’s customers have collectively driven more than three billion all-electric km.
