While major automakers in the United States are embarking on strengthening the EV = electric vehicle production system one after another, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has announced plans to invest more than 57 billion yen in a factory in southern Mississippi to make it an EV production base. Did.
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. announced on the 17th that it plans to invest 500 million dollars and 57 billion yen in Japanese yen at a plant in Mississippi, southern United States.
With this investment, it plans to start production of two EV models in 2025 and make it a production base for EVs in the United States.
Nissan has set a goal of increasing the proportion of EVs in new car sales in the US market to 40% by 2030, and this plan is part of that.
In the United States, GM-General Motors announced last month that it will invest about 300 billion yen in collaboration with a Korean company to build a factory to produce batteries essential for EVs, and Ford also announced last September that it will be about 800 billion yen. It has announced that it will invest in building three battery factories, and there are a series of huge investment plans among major manufacturers that anticipate growth in EV demand.