Nissan Green Scrappage Scheme

NISSAN is helping drivers to switch to the zero emissions Nissan LEAF by offering them up to €3,500 for their old cars.

Nissan has made the move to clean up the national car fleet and to support consumers who want to drive electric to reduce their carbon footprint.

The green scrappage offer is open to anyone driving a car that has been registered before the end of 2011 and will come as welcome news to anyone who has been thinking of making the switch to the Nissan LEAF.

Anyone driving a car that has been registered up to the end of 2009 is guaranteed a minimum trade-in value of €3,000 toward the cost of a new Nissan LEAF, with trade-in values increasing up to €3,500 for cars registered up to the end of 2011.

The news comes as Nissan continues to break all records for EV sales in Ireland having sold over 1,000 Nissan LEAF vehicles so far this year and over 5,000 since it launched the car over a decade ago.

Nissan has introduced the offer after the Government failed to use Budget 2020 to deliver a green scrappage scheme to incentivise motorists to switch out of older polluting cars into cleaner, zero emission cars as part of its policy to put one million electric vehicles onto Irish roads by 2030.

The scrappage deal is set to reduce the cost of buying the €29,890 entry level 40kWh Nissan LEAF, which has a range of up to 270 kilometres, to between €26,390 and €26,890, depending on the age of the car that is being traded-in.

Those who are interested in switching into the newly launched 62kWh model, which delivers up to 385 kilometres of zero emissions driving on a single charge, can save up to €3,500 off the starting price of €37,840 thanks to the green scrappage offer.