2014 Nissan Leaf Gets Teeny Tiny Price Increase

2013 Nissan Leaf

Pricing on the 2014 Nissan Leaf has been announced and it will see the base model going up by $180 to $28,980.

It isn’t much of an increase, but it does have the car going in the opposite direction from last year when the price on the Nissan Leaf dropped by a much larger $6,400. Nissan managed to re-chart the car’s course with that drop and has seen sales increasing throughout 2013.

You are getting a little something extra for that $180 as the rear-camera becomes a standard feature on all trim levels. Previously this had only been available as an option.

Three trim levels have been slated for 2014 starting with the base Nissan Leaf S at $28,980 then moving to the SV at $32,000 and topping out with the SL at $35,020. Buyers can drop those prices by a tidy $7,500 thanks to a federal tax credit for electric vehicles and may also be eligible for local and state credits.

The Nissan Leaf ended 2013 with a sales increase of an incredible 130 percent to set a new record with 22,610 units delivered for the year. That’s more electric vehicles than Nissan sold in all of 2011 and 2012 put together. December contributed heavily to that number with a monthly record 2,529 units sold.

2014 Nissan Leaf

Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn sees a rosy future for the Leaf and expects them to soon be averaging 3,000 units a month for a 36,000 unit year. He’s also hopeful for a 4,000 unit average but didn’t say just when he hopes to hit that lofty number.

Sales of electric vehicles were strong for several manufacturers last year, not just for Nissan. The industry as a whole sold a record-breaking 578,000 electric and rechargeable vehicles in 2013 which is over 100,000 more than in 2012. That accounted for 3.7 percent of all vehicles sold in the US for the year.

The leader of the pack? Unsurprisingly it was Toyota’s Prius which sold the lion’s share at 344,892 vehicles.

Nicole Wakelin fell in love with cars as a teenager when she got to go for a ride in a Ferrari. It was red and it was fast and that was all that mattered. Game over. She considers things a bit more carefully now, but still has a weakness for fast, beautiful cars. Nicole also writes for NerdApproved and GeekMom.