Nissan is helping drivers to go green and to switch into the zero emissions Nissan LEAF by offering them up to €3,500 for their old banger in an effort to clean up the national car fleet and to support consumers who want to drive electric to reduce their carbon footprint, writes Trish Whelan.
Anyone driving a car registered up to the end of 2009 is guaranteed a minimum trade-in value of €3,000 toward the cost of a new Nissan LEAF; trade-in values increase up to €3,500 for cars registered up to the end of 2011.
This comes as Nissan continues to break all records for EV sales in Ireland having sold over 1,000 Nissan LEAF cars so far this year and over 5,000 since it launched over a decade ago.
Nissan has introduced the offer after the Government failed to use Budget 2020 to deliver a green scrappage scheme to incentivise motorists to switch out of older polluting cars into cleaner, zero emission cars as part of its policy to put one million electric vehicles onto Irish roads by 2030.
The scrappage seal is set to reduce the cost of the €29,890 entry level 40kWh Nissan LEAF which has a range of up to 270kms to between €26,390 and €26,890, depending on the age of the car that is being traded-in.
Those interested in switching into the newly launched 62kWh model, which can do up to 385 kms of zero emissions driving on a single charge, can save up to €3,500 off the start price of €37,840 with the green scrappage offer.
Nissan recently announced that the Nissan X-Storage system will be available to buy in Ireland in 2020, enabling EV drivers to use their cars to power their businesses and homes and to feed energy back to the power grid.
The company already uses the technology together with sustainable solar energy to power its new Dublin headquarters.
