GREEN-Car-Guide has awarded Nissan the Greenest Manufacturer of the Year Award.
Nissan has won the award for showing ‘real commitment and leadership with the launch of the all-electric Nissan LEAF.’
2011 is the fourth year of the award which aims to recognise car manufacturers who have a special effort in providing greener vehicles which as are also great to drive.
The guide gave the award to Nissan due to the LEAF being ‘excellent to drive, well designed, and practical for a family’.
Paul Willcox, Managing Director of Nissan Motor (GB) Limited said: ‘Nissan is delighted to win the Greenest Manufacturer of the Year Award from Green-Car-Guide.com. The Nissan LEAF is pioneering the electric car revolution in the UK and this award is further acknowledgement of our vision of sustainable mobility.
‘We are also continuing with our efforts to reduce emissions in our petrol and diesel powered cars and this can be seen with the latest edition to the Micra range, the 1.2-litre DIG-S, which produces just 95 g/km of CO2.’
Green-Car-Guide.com founder and editor Paul Clarke says: ‘Nissan has shown real leadership by launching the world’s first all-electric family hatchback. However, not only has the company brought the vehicle to market, the LEAF is also an excellent car to drive.’
Green-Car-Guide.com also recommended the LEAF and helped to secure one of the first examples in the UK as a community electric vehicle for the Ashton Hayes ‘Going Carbon Neutral’ project.
This small Cheshire village is aiming to be the first community in the UK to go carbon neutral, and the electric LEAF is playing an important role in the plan.
The Ashton Hayes LEAF has its own garage with a solar-panelled roof, which helps to supplement the renewable-tariff electricity that powers the charge point. Although the LEAF has zero tailpipe emissions, this recharging system ensures that the electricity to charge the car is also zero emission.