13,000 pre-orders have been submitted in just over one month

"No other automaker will be producing electric batteries or cars at such a scale. And customers are ready. To date, 130,000 consumers in the US have registered their interest in buying a Nissan LEAF. With sales starting this December, 13,000 pre-orders have been submitted in just over one month in the US and Japan, largely driven by individual customer demand. This amount already surpasses our available production capacity for fiscal year 2010."

Ghosn says Renault-Nissan will have capacity for 500,000 new EVs a year — Autoblog Green​