What's wrong with the Nissan Leaf?

What’s wrong with the Nissan Leaf? Filed under: Transportation News #Fiat_Van_Man

What’s wrong with the Nissan Leaf? Time to turn a new Leaf on plug-in sales Is the Leaf Carlos Ghosn’s biggest mistake? Happy Fourth of July. Wasn’t going to post anything today, but then I saw the sale’s numbers for the Nissan Leaf. Just 535 Leaf electric cars were sold last month, down from 1,708 last June. What is going on with Nissan’s plug-in plans? What’s wrong with the Nissan Leaf? Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is easily the biggest EV bull in the major automaker room. And in recent months not only has Ghosn confirmed that he still believes that the Leaf will top 20,000 sales in 2012, but that plug-ins will achieve 10 percent penetration by 2020. Additionally, over the last several months Nissan has pointed to the earthquake/tsunami, the yen versus the dollar, and the need for US Leaf production as reasons for the Leaf sales slowdown. The point, it seems, is that things a...

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