AFP [via Google] reports:
Nissan Motor had delivered only 60 units of its Leaf electric vehicle in Japan as of Friday, Kyodo News reported, despite already taking 6,000 orders due by the end of March.
Nissan denied any delay in the delivery of the pre-ordered cars and company spokesman Mitsuru Yonekawa told AFP on Tuesday that the automaker was taking a cautious approach to ensure quality control.
“We have to make sure that everything is 100 percent safe and sure,” Yonekawa said. “This is the first time we have mass-produced an electric vehicle so we need to be very careful. We are not delayed or behind schedule.”
Well don’t rush it then… but it’s got to be rough to be one of the 6,000 folks who pre-ordered by the end of last March. Nissan promises these patient souls that production of the initial 6,000 units will be complete by the end of this March.
I thought Nissan was going to have delivered 200 by the mid January (i.e. yesterday).
It is a good thing it isn’t a real car, or all those buyers who haven’t taken delivery would be mightily inconvenienced!
How many moving parts in that engine, uhh I mean motor? One!
Yup that can be problematic.
Do you think they’ve used that time to fix perhaps the one weakness of the car: the steering feel?