Renault-Nissan Sunderland Plant Breaks Ground
27 Apr 2010, 13:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Renault Nissan alliance announced today it has started work on what will be the Europe's first lithium-ion battery plant. Located in Sunderland, UK, the facility will have an initial produc...
Nissan UK Extends Trade-in Scheme
30 Mar 2010, 07:25 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / After Kia and Skoda announced they decided to extend the country's scrappage scheme, Nissan UK also revealed it is planning to do so as well and to further support the British automotive indust...
Nissan Leaf to Be Produced in Sunderland
18 Mar 2010, 07:15 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Nissan has just announced that its first all electric vehicle, the Leaf, will be manufactured at the automaker’s plant in Sunderland, UK. The car manufacturer’s lithium-ion battery plant...
Third Shift to Be Relaunched at Nissan Sunderland Plant
29 Jan 2010, 10:13 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The high demand for the Qashqai crosSUVer has made Nissan launch a temporary third production shift at its manufacturing plant in Sunderland, UK. This shift was withdrawn last January due to the glo...
Nissan Named UK’s Largest Car Manufacturer in 2009
26 Jan 2010, 11:59 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Through its plant in Sunderland, Nissan was named UK’s largest car manufacturer for the 12th consecutive year. According to Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), Nissan managed to...
UK Built Nissan Engines Bound for Russia
27 Jul 2009, 13:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After being awarded by the government's development agency One North East 1.94 million pounds to build 65,000 engines/year in the next four years, Nissan decided most of the production output w...
Nissan Adds 100 New Staff in the UK
23 Jul 2009, 07:30 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Things are going pretty well for Nissan who is getting increased demand for its vehicles all around the world. The best example comes straight from the UK, a country in which the Japanese manufactur...
Nissan Gets UK Cash for Building Electric Cars
20 Mar 2009, 11:58 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The United Kingdom makes another step towards preserving jobs of those involved in the automotive industry in the country by offering cash to Nissan to build electric cars at its Sunderland plant. B...