In essence, the Leaf you buy in Europe is very similar to the Leaf you ll buy in the U.S. It even no

In Europe, things are a little different. If you re Renault, you sell people a car and offer its batteries airline discount ticket military only on a lease. It alleviates the stress of potential catastrophic battery failure, they say (though they don t use  exactly  that turn of phrase).
In essence, the Leaf you buy in Europe is very similar to the Leaf you ll buy in the U.S. It even now has its own factory just as Nissan now builds American Leafs in Tennessee, Nissan Europe now builds them in Sunderland, England.
You can still walk into a European Nissan dealer and buy a Leaf outright. In the UK, with the benefit of a $7,700 plug-in car grant from Her Majesty s government, an entry-level Leaf starts at $32,300 or so. This rises to $39,275 for a top-end car.
For a customer keeping the car for just those three years, it could prove good value. 36 months multiplied by $108 per month works out at $3,888, so for those three years a Leaf owner would save over $3,800. Or another three years of driving, safe in the knowledge Nissan will swap in a new battery in the event yours dies or drops any significant airline discount ticket military range.
But really it s about the purchase price. $24,600 slots neatly into the low end of the compact car market only a token few Ford Focus, Volkswagen Golfs and others cost less in Europe, often with basic equipment levels and engines you d not select if price wasn t a constraint.