Dead End? March LEAF Electric Car Sales Increase by 286.2%

[OKIsItJustMe]

7. Check my math…

I get:
Average sales figures for October-December of 2012: 1535.67
Average sales figures for January-March of 2013: 1179.67

It just doesn’t look like a sustained growth to me. It looks like they had 2 really slow sales months, followed by a decent one, which failed to make up the difference.

Of course, now that they’re making them in the US, sales may increase. That would be fine by me.


http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130327/AUTO0104/303270426

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In January, Nissan dropped the price of its new base-model 2013 Leaf EV by 18 percent to $28,800, and last year offered incentives in the wake of far lower than expected sales.

Renault-Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn said the company isn't backing away from its aggressive electric vehicle sales target for 2020.

"We are just going to have to be extremely patient and resilient and remove the obstacles," Ghosn told reporters on the sidelines of the New York International Auto Show on Wednesday. "We are reducing the price and will continue to reduce the price in function of the reduction of the cost."

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The Leaf's sales have struggled and the automaker failed to double sales in 2012 as it had predicted. Instead, Nissan sold about the same number as in 2011. Last year, Nissan sold 9,819 Leaf EVs in the U.S., up 1.5 percent over 2011.

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