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Nissan’s Latest U.S. Push: Building 2 New EV Models in Mississippi by 2025
- Nissan to invest $500 million in Canton for electric vehicles
- Battery-electric models planned under Nissan, Infiniti names
Nissan Leaf sales in the U.S. rose 48.9% in 2021 to 14,239 units.
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Nissan Motor Co. will build two battery-electric vehicles for the U.S. market at a plant in Mississippi, marking the Japanese automaker’s deepest North America move to date in to a growing field of consumer EVs.
The plug-in battery-powered models -- one under the Nissan nameplate and one for Infiniti -- will start production in 2025, the Yokohama, Japan-based automaker said Thursday. Nissan plans to invest $500 million for technology needed for EV-specific assembly lines at the plant in Canton, which is just north of the state capital in Jackson.