The first shipment of 67 Nissan Leaf EVs for Europe arrived on Thursday in north east England, on the maiden voyage of the City of St. Petersburg, the automaker’s new energy-saving car carrier for transporting vehicles in Europe.
The cars for the UK and Ireland and will be unloaded at the port of Tyne.
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The ship has a sleek and semi-spherical bow which reduces wind resistance by up to 50%, resulting in fuel reductions of up to 800 tonnes annually, equivalent to about 2,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions. The carrier will join the fleet of ships which export hundreds of thousands of vehicles from Nissan’s Sunderland plant – whcih builds the Qashqai, Note and Juke, and the Leaf and its batteries from 2013 – each year.
