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Nissan Leaf, the longest-available EV model in Australia, and often described as the world’s first “mass-market” electric car – has had its retail price slashed to new lows.
On Nissan Australia’s website, new and demo Leaf electric hatchbacks are priced from $34,990 driveway, down from the recommended retail price of $50,990 for the Leaf with the 39 kWh battery pack.
Similarly, the e+ variant, which has a 59 kWh battery pack, has also seen its price reduced to $44,990 driveaway, a saving of nearly $20,000 on the standard driveaway pricing of close to $65,000 for this top-spec model.
For $34,990, the Nissan Leaf 39 kWh delivers a range of 270 km. This is bumped up from 115 km to 385 km for an additional $10,000 with the 59 kWh e+ variant.
Both models are equipped with a CHAdeMO port, which can charge the entry-level model at a speed of up to 50 kW, while the e+ sees it boosted to 100 kW.
With the Nissan Leaf being one of the only few vehicles using the CHAdeMO plug in 2025, it’s likely that many new charging sites will opt not to include this plug, preventing the Nissan Leaf from charging there.
Having said that, the Nissan Leaf does offer vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities so at this price, it could be attractive to those attracted by that technology.
The 39 kWh Leaf is equipped with a 110 kW motor, accelerating it to 100 km/h from a stand-still in 7.9 seconds.
A whole second can be shaved off with the e+ variant, thanks to a more powerful 160 kW motor, but it also increases the rated consumption to 18 kWh/100 km.
With both variants, one-pedal driving is available via what Nissan calls the e-Pedal drive, making it easier to drive on the road.
The latest price cuts on the Nissan Leaf come days after Cupra reduced prices on its own electric hatchback, the Born.
Offering over 500 km of range, Cupra cut the Born electric hatchback prices by as much as 25% and now starting at $47,090.
Other electric hatchbacks, such as the MG4, do offer better value with a 51 kWh Lithium-Iron-Phosphate (LFP) battery pack in the Excite 51 variant, which delivers 350 km of range, priced in January from $34,990 driveaway.
Along with the Cupra Born and MG4, GWM Ora has also seen multiple price cuts in 2024, with the entry-level now becoming the cheapest EV in the market, coming in at $33,990 driveaway, which undercuts the Nissan Leaf’s current offer.
In 2024, the Nissan Leaf sold 357 units, down from 484 units in 2023. The drop in sales is one of the reasons why Nissan is trying to slash prices on the Leaf as the overall electric hatchback competition stiffens. Will it help Nissan move more stock? Time will tell.
One thing is for sure: Nissan Leaf will be remembered as one of the pioneering models that brought the EV revolution to Australia, with its first sales starting back in 2012.
The latest pricing is available to new and demo Leaf customers who purchase the hatchback by the end of January 2025.
Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.
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Buy a car from a car company that may not exist by the end of year?
you mean Tesla?
If it gets any cheaper I'll buy one just as a static storage battery that I can drive if my main car (EV CCS2) fails!!!
Once they go below $19,990 DA might be worth considering
At $65k for the e+ version, the Leaf was way overpriced compared with the flood of cheap Chinese imports. Charging without Chademo chargers would still be possible from AC for those with a lot of patience. BYO cable chargers would also be an option but the onboard inverter only charges at a maximum of 6.6kW.
$65k was insane pricing but I bought one for $35k driveaway brand new and I think it's a great car for city driving, with 62kWh battery and overnight charging I never see the need in either chademo or ccs DC charging although the latter can be had for about a grand for those who need it.
https://ozelectricvehicles.com.au/products/ccs2-to-chademo-adapter
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I think that the Nissan Leaf, like (unfortunately, most BEV cars) does not come with a full size spare wheel.
One thing about which, I wonder, is that, with these BEV cars that have the charging/discharging connector in the front surface of the car, rather than in the back (more practical) left corner side panel or the back right hand corner side panel, is, whether they are compatible with a bull bar, to protect the charger and interface.
Having the charging port up front is incredibly convenient. I do wonder, though, if they got moved in later model cars due to susceptibility to damaging the charger in a front-end bingle.
The Australian delivered Leaf, unlike most of the competition at least has a spare wheel. Yes it's not a full size one but regular tires are of a standard variety that anyone shop cab fix.
That's ñice
lets see how many more they sell at this price and if price is same after end of january.
Old news, this price reduction happened in July. Glad to see you are keeping up with the industry
12 year old car with little innovation from launch, which is what the Japanese manufacturers tend to do apart from adding basic ICE type of updates/refreshes. I wonder if they made money on it given the number of Leaf's that have had batteries replaced.
Finally gets to be priced appropriately given the competition in the marketplace but might be too little too late for Nissan.
Nissan really need to get over the chademo port, at least for cars outside of Japan. Most of the places I've visited recently don't have chademo or are broken 3rd party sites (to be fair a lot of these were superchargers but still, any other ccs2 car could charge here) and while I have a model 3, I'm looking for something for my wife and couldn't recommend the leaf solely based on this.
Can someone provide info tks.
Does the Leaf have an LFP battery. ?
If it is a 39kwh battery then is usage about 15kwh per 100kms. Doesn't seem brilliant for such a small car.
What sort of battery warranty would be given?
We had a grey import 2015 leaf, great car. Would definately short list the leaf at this price if we were looking for our next car.