Nissan commences UK Deliveries of its Leaf Electric Vehicle

2011 Nissan Leaf EV

Nissan has begun deliveries of the Nissan LEAF battery-electric vehicle to customers in the UK.

Tony Whittaker, Sales Director at Cleaner Air Solutions in Durham, today took delivery of the first of five Nissan LEAFs the company is buying, at the Benfield Motor Group dealership on Portland Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. In a similar event in Waltham Abbey, Hertfordshire, Smooth FM DJ Mark Goodier and electronics engineer Richard Todd took delivery of their Nissan LEAFs at Glyn Hopkin Nissan.

A comprehensive charging network is currently under development in the UK and Nissan’s network of EV dealers—currently 26 sites across the country—will be equipped with a quick charger, which will charge the battery from zero up to 80% capacity in less than 30 minutes. There are programs under way to install around 1,300 charge points in the North East and 9,000 charge points across the UK by 2013.