Establishing a UK manufacturing hub for Nissan’s first mass produced electric car, the LEAF, required sophisticated modelling to prove a sound and profitable business case.
Production of the new vehicle is so far being undertaken in Japan, but from 2013, Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) in Sunderland is expected to manufacture 50,000 LEAF cars per annum. Due to be completed in January 2012, the company is constructing a battery plant which will produce 60,000 lithium-ion batteries. Because the LEAF represented relatively…
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