Ingineer said:
Oh, and it"s still not as easy to buy a Leaf as any other car. Unless you get lucky with an orphan, the waiting list puts off a lot of people.
Right - when we get multiple choices in each dealer that anyone can walkin and buy, we will know the true "demand". We have to see whether Nissan abandons the current special order procedure before Smyrna comes on board or later.
I doubt Nissan can sell 20k cars this year if it remains a special order. My guess is sometime in the middle of this year, Nissan allows dealers to start ordering Leaf. Ultimately those 20k per year need to translate to about 1,650 a month. Now that we are 2 months over, it is now almost 1,900 a month. The more months they miss this monthly target, the more they have to sell later.
BTW, I wonder when we will reach the tipping point in terms of oil price.