With a price of only $10,623 for LEAF S after tax credits and incentives, demand quickly exceeded expectations. In the first five days of the discount program, Tynan’s Nissan blew through its entire inventory of 2015 Nissan LEAFs. RMI believes that the largest economic and environmental benefits will be derived from shared electric (and eventually autonomous) mobility, which has the potential to drastically reduce the cost of transportation and the emissions it creates. However, individually owned electric vehicles are an important intermediate step. These bulk purchase programs have shown great potential in their early iterations. Now the question is: who will be next?

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