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As of today, Nissan has sold 50,000 Leafs in the US, 115,000 globally
Posted May 23rd 2014 11:59AM
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Watch out, America, there are 50,000 Nissan Leaf electric vehicles prowling your streets. That's the official word from Nissan, which says it has just delivered the 50,000th Leaf – a black SL model – to Todd and Lisa Bolt in Dallas, Texas.Todd is a pastor at the Gateway Church in Southlake, where there almost two dozen Leaf drivers who call themselves the "Blessed LEAFs Club." We're not making that up. Divinely inspired or not, Todd said in a statement that the EV completely meets the family's needs and that, "I don't know why we'd buy another gas car."
Last September, Nissan announced it had sold 35,000 Leaf EVs in the US so far, and the 25,000 mark came in May last year. Globally, "nearly 115,000" Leafs have been sold, which makes Nissan's workhorse the most popular EV by a long shot.
To celebrate the occasion, Nissan has put together an infographic (click to enlarge) showing the cumulative effects of all those electric vehicles on the roads. While they're only estimates based on taking the actual data from the CarWings connected vehicles (which make up 55 percent of the total fleet) and extrapolating, the numbers are still impressive. Around 906,000,000 miles driven, which means 241,000 metric tons of CO2 saved from going into the air. 50,000 Leaf sales is a big deal, sure, but we're much more keen on those cleaner air figures. Read more below.
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As of today, Nissan has sold 50,000 Leafs in the US, 115,000 globally
Watch
out, America, there are 50,000 Nissan Leaf electric vehicles prowling
your streets. That's the official word from Nissan, which says it has
just delivered the 50,000th Leaf – a black SL model – to Todd and Lisa
Bolt in Dallas, Texas. Todd is a pastor at the Gateway Church in
Southlake, where…
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We have a friend on Maui who has a Leaf there. Basically, some place like Maui or the other Hawaiian island make a lot of sense to have something like a Nissan Leaf because of the price of gas there and the fact that there isn't a long distance every day that you could drive even if you wanted to on most islands. Even the Big Island of Hawaii I think is only 400 miles if you drive the circumference roads around the outer edge of the island.
Also, I love the "Blessed Leafs Club".
