Colorado residents can get a Nissan LEAF S electric car for a fraction of the tag price until Nov. 10 thanks to a partnership that Aurora officials developed with Tynan’s Nissan in the Havana Business Improvement District.

The city partnered with the Metro Denver Clean Cities Coalition over the summer to host an electric vehicle test drive event that about 60 people attended. From there, Aurora officials crafted a limited-time offer that knocks thousands of dollars of the listed price of Nissan electric vehicles in the interest of increasing citywide sustainability.

“The Aurora Power Purchase Deal is a great opportunity to make switching to an electric vehicle simple and more affordable than ever,” said Michael Lawson, manager of special projects for Aurora. “The city of Aurora saw a great deal of interest from the community for electric vehicles and is excited to now work with our program partners to follow through on that interest for our residents.”

Through the program, anyone who buys a Nissan LEAF S at the Nissan dealership at 780 S. Havana St. will get a $10,500 discount off the manufacturer’s suggested retail price through a combination of customer cash rebates and discounts.

Some people could also qualify for a federal income credit of up to $7,500 and a state tax credit of up to $6,000, lowering the purchase price on a 2016 Nissan LEAF S with the 24 kilowatt-hour battery — typically sold at $32,000 — to as low as $8,000.

A fully loaded version of the LEAF retails for about $39,500, said Markus Kamm, director of sales at Tynan’s Nissan and Volkswagen.

The 60-day event launched Sept. 10 and ends Nov. 10. Kamm said the dealership is considering extending the program because of its success so far. He said 11 LEAFs were sold in September, and October’s sales are encouraging.

“So far this month, the event has created 13 new LEAF owners,” Kamm said. “We expect that number to continue to rise as we enter the latter part of the event.”

The 24 cars sold during the program rivals the total number of Nissan LEAFs sold between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31 of this year — 29.

“We’re planning to gather feedback from our residents who participated and depending on the results, we might look at doing something like this again next year,” Lawson said. “Being that the city has purchased some of its own electric vehicles and charge stations for those vehicles, it seems to be a pretty natural fit. This is just out latest effort to delve into the alternative fuel world.”

Aurora has 16 plug-in hybrid vehicles in its city fleet, and 44 total electric car charge stations throughout the city, 32 of which are public. City officials said Aurora will add several more electric vehicles in 2017, and are discussing how to deploy more chargers throughout the community over the next few years.

Noor Shaikh, a market analyst for Aurora, coordinated the program with the guidance of the Denver Metro Clean Cities Coalition, a government-industry partnership sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Program designed to reduce petroleum consumption in the transportation sector.

“We feel this program is a great way to promote zero tailpipe emission vehicles, which reduces ozone pollution,” said Janna West-Heiss, Denver Metro Clean Cities coordinator. “As a community in a nonattainment ozone region it only leverages that logic to further the adoption of these vehicles.”

A nonattainment classification means that air quality in the region does not meet a federal air quality standard.

“The city just negotiated the price on behalf of residents throughout Colorado, we just did it as a service for our residents,” Lawson said. “It fits in with a lot of the internal sustainability initiatives that we’re doing, like buying electric vehicles to clean the air up a little for everyone on the Front range.”