After receiving $1.6 billion in federal loans aimed at creating or retooling factories for green car production, Nissan has confirmed that it will use its chunk of the government’s loan to build a lithium ion battery plant near its Smyrna, Tennessee, factory. Nissan will also retool part of its truck assembly plant to build four-door electric sedans.
Nissan says it is unsure if it will manage the battery plant on its own, or if it will have an outside partner handle operations.
Typically, automakers have bought batteries from suppliers, so the Nissan plant marks a significant departure from the norm.
The new plant will be about 1 million square feet, the automaker told journalists. It is expected to open in the first or second quarter of 2010.
06/24, 9:37 AM
posted by:
Borat
It is a little shy of Al Gore summer residence (dacha). Hopefully it will be build not far from his estate.
06/24, 9:56 AM
posted by:
leftwingagenda
does everything have to be political? really?
06/24, 10:02 AM
posted by:
05Z88Path
Mr. Green still using more energy then a small town on that estate?
06/24, 10:19 AM
posted by:
zfenderguy
Why yes he does. And they mine for zinc on his property and pay him a nice kickback. Zinc mining being one of the more environmentally harsh things you can do on this earth.
Oh, and go Smyrna!
06/24, 10:43 AM
posted by:
Borat
Nope it doesn’t. I just hate when others allow themselves to be hypocritical, I preserve the right for myself.
06/24, 12:32 PM
posted by:
tob
Didn’t Al Gore invent Tennessee?