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Nissan has been awarded Green-Car-Guide’s Greenest Manufacturer of the Year Award for showing real commitment and leadership with the launch of the all-electric Nissan LEAF.   Green-Car-Guide.com presents it is Greenest Manufacturer Award each year with the intent of recognising manufacturers that have made a special contribution by providing motorists more efficient, lower carbon vehicles – as long as they are likewise outstanding to drive.   This is the fourth year of the award, and each year there is stiffer competition, as all makers are making increasing attempts to lower the emissions of their models. However Nissan has gone beyond incremental improvements and has developed a step-change with the launch of the all-electric LEAF.   Introducing an electric car in itself would not inevitably qualify Nissan to win the award, but the LEAF is likewise splendid to drive, well designed, and practical for a family. As well as it is environmental credentials, it is also much for less to run than a established petrol or diesel car. Petrol and diesel prices are expected to carry on to rise due to increasing global demand and dwindling oil supplies, hence the LEAF is likely to become even more of an beautiful proposition.   Paul Willcox, Managing Director of Nissan Motor (GB) Limited said: “Nissan is delighted to win the Greenest Manufacturer of the Year Award from Green-Car-Guide.com. The Nissan LEAF is pioneering the electric car revolution in the UK and this award is further acknowledgement of our resourcefulness of sustainable mobility. We are also continuing with our attempts to reduce emissions in our petrol and diesel powered cars and this may be seen with the latest edition to the Micra range, the 1.2-litre DIG-S, which develops just 95 g/km of CO2.”   Green-Car-Guide.com founder and editor Paul Clarke says: “Nissan has shown real leadership by launching the world’s original all-electric family hatchback. However, not only has the company brought the vehicle to market, the LEAF is also an splendid car to drive. It makes peculiar sense in urban areas, specially London, where there are real air quality issues, and where daily driving distances are in general well within the range of an electric vehicle. Green-Car-Guide.com is pleased to know Nissan as a pioneer in bringing quality zero emission vehicles to market on a significant scale.”   However it’s not only cities such as London where the LEAF may be used. Green-Car-Guide.com commended the LEAF and helped to secure one of the original examples in the UK as a community electric vehicle for the Ashton Hayes ‘Going Carbon Neutral’ project. This little Cheshire village is aiming to be the basi community in the UK to go carbon neutral, and the electric LEAF is playing an important role in the plan.   The LEAF may be used by any driver over the age of 18 in Ashton Hayes, providing zero-emission transport. The hope is that this may also enable galore residents to keep away from running a second car, which in a good deal of cases may presently be a vehicle with comparatively high emissions.   The Ashton Hayes LEAF has it is own garage with a solar-panelled roof, which helps to supplement the renewable-tariff electricity that powers the charge point. Although the LEAF has zero tailpipe emissions, this recharging system ensures that the electricity to charge the car is likewise zero emission.   You may see the Nissan LEAF, as well as the racing LEAF NISMO RC, the new 95 g/km CO2 Micra DIG-S, and witness the incredible, heart-stopping spectacle of the Juke driving around a race track on two wheels, at Green-Car-Guide Live! at the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power, 15-17 July 2011, in Cheshire. For more selective information visit Green-Car-Guide.com or cpop.co.uk.