Press Association - 2014 Nissan Leaf
NISSAN has revealed that European owners of its Leaf electric car travel more than 50 percent further per year (10,307 miles) than the European average for a traditional internal combustion-powered vehicle (6,721 miles1).
Spanish Leaf drivers come out on top, covering on average more than 228 miles each week, Swedish drivers (211 miles) come second and the UK third with 201 miles.
According to the latest figures, drivers of traditional petrol or diesel-powered cars covered an average of 129 miles per week.
Thanks to Nissan’s ‘CarWings’ telemetry service, which records real life driver data, the firm has been able to report that its European drivers amass on average 198 miles a week all without any exhaust emissions.
Further research from the automaker indicated that 89 percent of Leaf drivers charge overnight at home, benefiting from a cost per mile of just two pence or less†.
This insight into driver habits comes four years since the car’s launch as one of the first mass-market, pure-electric vehicles.
The Leaf is now the best-selling electric vehicle in history, with over 150,000 vehicles sold globally, more than 31,000 of which have been sold in Europe.
