If you happened to place an order for a new Nissan Leaf in the U.S. recently, then you probably spent somewhere north of $31,600 for the 2020MY variant, excluding the $925 destination charge.
While that’s $1,730 more than you would have paid for the 2019MY Leaf, it’s still a really good price if you start to look at how much the Japanese EV costs in global markets, which is what Compare the Market did in a recent study.
In fact, they accessed no fewer than 49 official Nissan websites in order to see how expensive the world’s most popular EV can get, and the results are in!
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If you want it as cheap as possible, your best chance is to purchase the Leaf in Spain, where it will set you back €25,900, the equivalent of $28,620, which is slightly better than what you’d have to pay for one in the United States.
The fact that Singapore is last on this list at a whopping $110,326 comes as no surprise, since car prices there are often the highest in the world. It remains the single most expensive country in which to buy and run a car. It’s a similar story in Thailand, where taxes are much higher than in most other countries.
However, if you’re wondering why there’s such a massive price difference between buying a 2020 Leaf in Brazil ($45,630) and one in Argentina ($64,675), it’s partly because the latter has massive import tariffs. While that’s not strange in and of itself, the fact that these two countries share a border makes it quite the eyebrow raiser if you’re looking at it from a buyer’s perspective.
We should note that this study isn’t as precise as we would have liked, since some countries will include EV tax discounts in the pricing of the vehicle, while others might still have certain incentives that will ultimately cut into the price later on.
