Renault-Nissan Alliance Eyes France for Another Lithium-ion Battery Factory

Nissan and Renault, which plan to be the first major car makers to launch mass-produced electric vehicles for sale globally, also are planning on building their own battery packs using  technology developed in Nissan's Japanese R&D center.

The companies so far have formally announced plans to build battery factories in the U.S., Portugal and England to support their EV effort, and now France -home to Renault - has been added to the list, kind of.

Carlos Ghosn, who heads both automakers (each owns a piece of the other and Renault has controlling interest in Nissan) said during a management forum in Tokyo this morning that it would be logical to "suspect that France is also a place where we are going to build some batteries" to support the 2012 launch of the companies' global EVs.

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John O'Dell October 27, 2009, 9:22 AM

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