"The battery plant in Sunderland may be enough for Nissan's near-term plans to build tens of thousands of electric cars but the UK made 1.5 million cars last year and all will be partly electric ...

Since EV production began in Sunderland in 2013 bolstered by a £420m investment, the battery plant and Nissan LEAF production have supported more than 2,000 jobs both at Nissan and within the ...

Nissan's car plant in Sunderland is the UK's biggest and employs ... in electric vehicle production but also as the UK centre for battery manufacturing," he said. Getty Images Nissan's Ashwani ...

Prince Charles toured Nissan's Sunderland plant in the UK, where the Nissan Leaf electric vehicle is produced. Environmental sustainability and job training. Those are two of the issues the UK's ...

Currently, the Sunderland plant produces the Europe-only Nissan Juke and Qashqai ICE-powered ... to support EV production, including two battery plants built nearby to support the battery needs ...

Nissan said that both vehicle and battery manufacturing will be powered ... Announcing the plans at the Sunderland plant, Nissan President and CEO Makoto Uchida said: "Exciting, electric vehicles ...

SUNDERLAND, England--Nissan Motor Co. bet on Britain to supercharge its European electric future on Thursday, pledging $1.4 billion with its Chinese partner to build a giant battery plant that ...

battery production partner Envision AESC and Sunderland City Council. As well as the upgrades to the Nissan plant, the deal included a new Envision AESC battery gigafactory that will open with a ...

Nissan is set to cut 9,000 jobs across the globe - leaving thousands of workers under threat and uncertainty over the impact on its Sunderland plant. The car marker is set to scale back ...

Given the platform tech, it’s likely that Nissan will share battery components ... heritage was why Sunderland was selected,” he said. “The demonstration of what this factory is able to ...

Nissan has unveiled a new concept EV ... which is based just 15 miles away from the Sunderland plant. The battery pack was separated into two pieces and mounted in the engine bay and the boot ...