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Nissan to Build Leaf EV in Sunderland
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Nissan Motor Co. announced that the Nissan LEAF electric car will be manufactured at its plant in Sunderland, UK, from early 2013.
Production of Nissan Leaf will begin in Oppama, Japan later this year followed by Smyrna, Tennessee, USA in 2012.Sunderland will come on-line in early 2013 with an initial annual production capacity of about 50,000 units and the UK plant's output will be for the European region.
The three production sites will support the sales launch of the model, which begins in late 2010 in Japan, the United States and selected European markets, ahead of global mass marketing from 2012.
Nissan also said that construction in Sunderland of its advanced lithium-ion battery plant, announced last year, will begin this April. The battery facility will have a production capacity of 60,000 units a year and will start manufacturing batteries in 2012 for both Nissan and its Alliance partner Renault.
Nissan LEAF – the first in a range of forthcoming Nissan electric vehicles (EVs) – is the one of the world’s mass produced zero emission car and embodies Nissan’s vision for an environmentally sustainable future for road transport.
The production of Nissan LEAF and the batteries represents a total investment of more than 420 million GBP (468.2 million euros) in the Sunderland Plant and is expected to maintain about 2,250 jobs at Nissan and across the UK supply chain. The investment will be supported by a 20.7 million GBP (23.1 million euros) Grant for Business Investment (GBI) from the UK Government and a proposed finance package from the European Investment Bank of up to 220 million euros (197.3 million GBP).
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