Known for its range of zero emission vehicles, the Renault-Nissan alliance recently sold its 250,000th electric vehicle which is a white Renault Zoe sold to a French engineer. The alliance reached the milestone in early June, just four and a half years after the launch of the Nissan Leaf, the world's first mass-market zero-emission vehicle.
According to Renault-Nissan, their line-up accounts for about half of the electric vehicles sold worldwide. The Leaf, meanwhile, remains the best-selling electric vehicle of all time, with more than 180,000 units sold till dateThe owner of the 250,000th vehicle is a certain Yves Nivelle, a computer engineer, who traded in his 21-year-old diesel car for a Renault Zoe.
While the demand for electric vehicles continues to grow in Europe and North America, thanks to government incentives and the expanding charging infrastructure, there is still a long way for the Indian market to get accustomed with the concept of electric vehicles. It’s not surprising, then, that we have only one fully electric four wheeler in India in the form of the Mahindra e2o.
Known for its range of zero emission vehicles, the Renault-Nissan alliance recently sold its 250,000th electric vehicle which is a white Renault Zoe sold to a French engineer. The alliance reached the milestone in early June, just four and a half years after the launch of the Nissan Leaf, the world's first mass-market zero-emission vehicle.
According to Renault-Nissan, their line-up accounts for about half of the electric vehicles sold worldwide. The Leaf, meanwhile, remains the best-selling electric vehicle of all time, with more than 180,000 units sold till dateThe owner of the 250,000th vehicle is a certain Yves Nivelle, a computer engineer, who traded in his 21-year-old diesel car for a Renault Zoe.
While the demand for electric vehicles continues to grow in Europe and North America, thanks to government incentives and the expanding charging infrastructure, there is still a long way for the Indian market to get accustomed with the concept of electric vehicles. It’s not surprising, then, that we have only one fully electric four wheeler in India in the form of the Mahindra e2o.
