Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric
We found an email in our inbox today that should make a lot of long-term plug-in vehicle fans happy. For the first time in about forever, a major OEM is taking orders on an all-electric passenger vehicle. Yes, Nissan is about ready to take your money in exchange for a purchase or a lease on the new Leaf, starting Tuesday. That’s when Nissan will open the doors to accepting refundable $99 reservations from people who signed up on NissanUSA.com. Once these hand-raisers are taken care of, anyone interested can send in the reservation money. Actual pre-orders for the Leaf begin in August.
We did notice something interesting. In our email, the image announcing the reservation fee was divvied up into two parts, with our specific reservation time listed separately:
Did anyone get a different time? Maybe Nissan is staggering the reservations a bit? In any case, weʻre getting close to a time when all of the prognostications weʻve heard about this car (it’ll flop! it won’t!) will be firmly locked in the past. Either people will want to drive the Leaf or they won’t. The time for proof is (almost) here. Official press release after the jump.
Gallery: 2010 Nissan Leaf EV
[Source: Nissan]
Officially Official: Nissan sending out Leaf registration emails, will take money Tuesday originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.