Brian Carolin, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Nissan North America Inc., said that by the end of April, Nissan will have sold about 900 in the United States.
Through the first three months of sales in 2011, Nissan sold just under 500 Leafs in the United States.
Carolin expects total U.S. Leaf sales for 2011 to be "a little north" of 10,000. Nissan closed a waiting list after 20,000 people made refundable deposits. Another 340,000 interested people have registered on a Nissan website.
The company vows to get Leafs into the driveways of all those who reserved one by the end of the summer.
Nissan is today beginning the reprogramming of 5,300 Leafs worldwide to address a "handful" of complaints the automaker has received of difficulty restarting the vehicle. In some cases, dealers will go to owners' homes to make the fix.
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110419/AUTO04/104190407/Nissan-sees-big-April-sales-boost-for-electric-Leaf#ixzz1K0D4KYeR.