Nissan sells out of orders for all-electric Leaf

BY JEWEL GOPWANI
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER

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Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said interest in its all-electric Nissan Leaf is strong and bodes well for what it is billing as the first affordable, mass-market all-electric vehicle to be sold in the U.S.

“We think the Leaf is going to be a big hit,” Ghosn said today after speaking to the Detroit Economic Club at the Cobo Center.

In the U.S., Nissan has received 13,000 reservations for the Leaf since last month, when it started to take $99 refundable deposits from customers to reserve a vehicle. Nissan has 6,000 reservations for the Leaf in Japan. Ghosn noted that the reservations are from individual customers and not orders for corporate fleets.

Ghosn said the automaker continues to take orders for production in 2011. The Leaf, due in the United States U.S. in December, is priced at $32,780 and would cost $25,280 after a federal tax credit of as much as $7,500.

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