Nissan Leaf Reaches 10,000 Units Sold In The US, The Earth Smiles Back

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Nissan has a reason to celebrate now that their electric vehicle, the Leaf, has achieved its milestone of 10,000 vehicles sold in the US. The Leaf, which first hit the American market in December 2010, still isn't available in all 50 states though Nissan looks to rectify that by March of this year.

Surely the impressive sales figure proves that American consumers are open to the idea of electric vehicles. In fact, we would go so far as to say that the worldwide market is embracing EVs as Nissan has sold 20,000 Leafs globally. The Leaf's impressive sales figures trump all other OEMs combined sales of electric vehicles throughout the world though that's not saying much, considering there isn't much competition out there as of yet.

It'll be interesting to see if the Leaf stays strong in the sales category once the Ford Focus Electric and even the Honda Fit EV hit the marketplace.

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It's pretty darn amazing that Nissan has been able to sell 10,000 electric vehicles over such a short period of time. People across the country making a paradigm shift from the internal combustion engine vehicles powered using batteries and in the most extreme cases solar power. Only just a few years ago the documentary Who killed the electric car came out and people wondering if electric cars would ever take off again.

Economically at this point electric cars are not the wisest decision, but the numbers are getting increasingly more attractive over time. In the next 3 to 5 years with the used car market factored into account combined with depreciation of an electric vehicle, we will see even more adoption by the masses.