With 3,730 sold in Q1 2014, Nissan Leaf leads the Europe’s electric vehicles (EV) market.
The data collected by AID found that Leaf’s first quarter share of West Europe’s electric car market touched the 30 percent mark. Norway remains the hottest market for Leaf.
The success of the Nissan LEAF in Europe has been propelled by consistently strong sales in Norway where the Nissan LEAF the third-most sold passenger car last year, became the country’s best-selling car at the end of January 2014 with 650 units, Nissan said.
Nissan Leaf sales surpassed the next competitor throughout 2013.
According to an official statement from the company in February this year, 2013 was a record-breaking year for the Nissan LEAF in Europe with 11,120 sales, soaring by 204 percent compared to 2012.
The model reportedly had 25 percent more sales than the next best-selling EV model.
Tesla Model S, ranked no.2, got a 24 percent share in the market.
The second-placed Tesla Model S, already hard on its heels, took a further 24 per cent, followed by BMW’s i3 and Renault’s ZOE with a respective 18 and 10 percent first quarter segment share.