I subscribe to the industry weekly paper Automotive News, which publishes weekly domestic production figures. Here are the Leaf production numbers out of TN:
Leaf Domestic Production:
May 2013: 1,755 units
6/3 - 6/8/2013: 477 units
1/1 - 6/8/2013: 10,854 units
1/1 - 6/9/2012: 0 units
Leaf Sales:
6,248 Domestic units sold CYTD through May 2013
1,366 Import units sold CYTD through May 2013
2,138 Domestic units sold in May 2013
0 Import units sold in May 2013 (510 sold during May 2012)
This puts ROUGHLY 3,000 to 3,500 units of unsold/unshipped Leaf inventory. With sales of 2,138 Leafs last month, that is about a 45 day supply of inventory spread across S, SV, and SL trim packages.
To put all of this in perspective, since the beginning of the year Nissan North America has built 649,891 cars this year, including (but not limited to):
Total Domestic Production through May 2013:
174,702 Altima sedans
102,955 Versas (2nd gen, Mex.)
97,933 Sentras (7th gen, Mexican production)
56,339 Pathfinders
55,962 Pickup/Chassis (Mex.) (Not Frontier or Titan)
30,737 Frontiers
28,861 Tsurus (Mex.)
26,874 Tiidas (Mex.)
19,936 Infiniti JX
17,439 Maxima
15,395 March
10,854 Leaf
7,231 Xterra
6,274 Altima coupe
5,571 NV commercial van
5,529 Titan
5,216 Armada
1,204 NV200 taxi (Mex.)
813 NV passenger van (Mex.)
Rogue, Murano, 370Z, GT-R, Cube, and Juke are all imported from Japan. Rogue being the only one of serious volume with 65,533 units sold. Murano at 17,409.
Of course, U.S Leaf production didn't really get going until recently. I'm sure that number could have been higher if it started from the beginning of the year. Also of note that a single week or month doesn't always tell the whole story. For example, Honda recently got some press about
only producing 91 Acura ILX shortly after launch in March, as the line was ramping up on the very popular re-redesigned Civic.