New Nissan Leaf EV confirmed for Australia delivery

As customers in the UK begin taking delivery of Nissan’s next generation all-electric LEAF, news has emerged that the latest version of the world’s highest selling EV is due to arrive on Australian soil sometime after July this year, and before the end of June 2019.

The new Leaf EV from Nissan.

In a statement published on the Nissan website on Tuesday, the Japan-based auto giant said the new LEAF would go on sale in seven markets in Asia and Oceania during the coming fiscal year, including Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand.

The company is also exploring introducing the zero-emission car in other markets in the region, including Indonesia and the Philippines, it said.

As noted above, Nissan has led the global electric vehicle market on sales since the first model went on sale in 2010, with more than 300,000 cars sold over the past seven years.

Read the RenewEconomy story by Sophie Vorrath - “New Nissan Leaf EV confirmed for Australia delivery.”

(We continue to struggle with the idea that personally owned private transport is simply unsustainable in an energy constrained world. 

Electric or otherwise, the personal owned private transport is of itself energy-rich and is only viable because of a road network infrastructure paid for by the public - it’s about ensuring private profit at public expense. 

Any rhetoric arguing about the convenience and practicality of private transport can be matched easily with a sophisticated public transport system that can answer the needs of both freight and people. The answers to the problems exist, we simply need to the will to make them happen.

However, it is unlikely that the profit intent behind the private transport industry will not submit easily to a push from public transport enthusiasts, but seemingly unbeknown to many, the drive for public transport has an implacable ally in climate change and if we are to have any chance at all of avoiding the inadequate promise made in Paris in December of 2015 then the private vehicle, electric or otherwise, must give way to an advanced public transport infrastructure)