Overseas Production of Lithium-Ion Batteries
In Japan, Nissan and NEC Corporation’s joint-venture company Automotive
Energy Supply Corporation (AESC) produces lithium-ion batteries for Nissan
LEAF at its Zama facility. The facility assembles modules made up of four
cells, which are put together into battery packs made up of 48 modules at
Nissan’s Oppama Plant and then fitted into vehicles.
Nissan also manufactures Nissan LEAF and EV batteries overseas. In
the United States, the company has produced lithium-ion batteries at its
Battery Plant and EVs at its Vehicle Assembly Plant in Smyrna, and in
Europe, at its Sunderland Plant in the United Kingdom.