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<p>Filed under: <a href="http://green.autoblog.com/category/ev-plug-in/" rel="tag">EV/Plug-in</a>, <a href="http://green.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag">Nissan</a></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2011-nissan-leaf-first-drive/"><img alt="Nissan Leaf" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/green.autoblog.com/media/2013/02/01nissanleaf2011fd.jpg" style="margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px; width: 628px; height: 417px; " /></a><br /><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/nissan/"><br />Nissan</a> says that its all-electric <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/nissan/leaf/">Leaf</a> has broken the 50,000-units-sold threshold, as the Japanese automaker looks accelerate demand with the start of US Leaf production in Tennessee this year.<br /><br />Nissan has sold about 7,000 Leafs across Europe, where the EV is sold in 17 countries. About 19,500 of those Leafs were sold in the US in 2011 and <a href="http://green.autoblog.com/2013/01/07/december-2012-alt-fuel-vehicle-sales/">2012</a>.<br /><br />In all, Nissan Leaf drivers have put more than 260 million kilometers (162 million miles) on their cars, with one Japanese owner clocking in about 110,000 miles.<br /><br />The company last month <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/01/14/nissan-leaf-becomes-least-expensive-5-seat-ev-with-massive-price/">dropped the price</a> of its 2013 Leaf by $6,400 to a base of $28,800. Nissan's <a href="http://green.autoblog.com/2013/02/01/chevy-volt-sales-drop-1140-january-nissan-leaf-fall-650/">January US Leaf sales</a> fell 3.8 percent from a year earlier to just 650 units, as the company looked to unload its 2012 model-year inventory. Read Nissan's press release below.<p><a href="http://green.autoblog.com/2013/02/16/nissan-leaf-tops-50-000-sales-worldwide/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Nissan Leaf tops 50,000 sales worldwide</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://green.autoblog.com/2013/02/16/nissan-leaf-tops-50-000-sales-worldwide/">Nissan Leaf tops 50,000 sales worldwide</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://green.autoblog.com">Autoblog Green</a> on Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:01:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://green.autoblog.com/2013/02/16/nissan-leaf-tops-50-000-sales-worldwide/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://green.autoblog.com/forward/20464340/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://green.autoblog.com/2013/02/16/nissan-leaf-tops-50-000-sales-worldwide/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a><div class="feedflare">

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