Nissan and partners accelerate plans for EV36Zero in Sunderland UK
The car maker Nissan has announced a major expansion of vehicle production at its sunderum plant which the government’s Hil as a key vote of confidence in the UK car industry let’s get to some breaking news Nissan and partners to invest $ 1.4 billion US in UK EV Production Oh Good morning everyone and welcome to Nissan Sunderland plant my name is Adam penck and I’m the vice president of manufacturing here in Sunland as you have just seen today is a hugely exciting day for our plant and we are delighted to host you to share in this
Moment as you can see we’ve momentarily paused our production lines to allow a few of our team to come and watch proceedings and before anything else I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to our full team of 6,000 staff here in Sunland whose manufacturing and Engineering skill
Coupled with a dedication Spirit has made today’s announcement possible I’m pleased to say that we are joined by our partners at sundland city council and we shortly invite chief executive Patrick Melia to the stage but before anything else it gives me great pleasure to invite Nissan’s Global president and chief executive off
Officer Makoto yida to take the microphone yida San so good morning everybody um Nissan colleagues and partners I’m thrilled to be here with you today to share exciting news we have a vision of a cleaner safer and more inclusive World a vision of exciting Electrify Vehicles a vision
Where your car can help your community to manage energy a vision where Nissan becomes a truly sustainable company where our actions have a positive impact on the environment this is our Nissan ambition 2030 is it not just a logo OR statement it is reality since Nissan started 90 years
Ago we have proudly there to do what others do not in the 1980s nobody had ever built a car in the northeast of England you know the rest suland welcome Nissan and Nissan was proud to call sandalan home we have a great team here this belief gave us the confidence to
Establish our R&D Center in clumio and later our Design Center in London and this plant grew bigger and bigger becoming the biggest car plant ever in the UK we found winning formula of manufacturing excellence and great products first was a cash Kai the original crossover the second come Juke a compact crossover
And then came the Nissan Leaf the world’s first mass Market Ed and it came with Europe’s first Giga Factory just across the RO here today these vehicles are all made here in the Thunderland and Nissan has now sold more than a million EVS globally nearly a third of which
Have had their batteries made right here in the ASC plan ev360 is our brueprint for the future of manufacturing we launched in 2021 with the allocation of a new e model our partners ASC announced a second Giga Factory and together with sandan city council we announc a new micro to provide
Carbon neutral electricity to the plant and to our suppliers it was an initial 1 billion pound investment from Nissan and our partners together we are accelerating that plan today we are confirming an additional two new e models for production here in UK these three vehicles will be future
Versions of the Nissan icons here in front of us kashai Juke and leaf the support of the additional new EVS we are announcing today we will require a third Giga Factory to supply our sandland plant and the micro GD project will continue to grow and we have many infrastructure projects that
Will need to make e360 a reality it means that these these three models are enabling Investments up to 3 billion pound in our future today three is a magic number Nissan is making the future of Electric Mobility even more exciting these new vehicles will be inspired by
Three concept vehicles two of those were first un unveiled one month ago at the Japan Mobility show the first is a Nissan hyper arburn the second is a Nissan hyper Punk third is a Nissan CH out and I can tell you that this EB will be the next Generation Nissan
Leaf the next chapter for the world’s first EV we will share more information about these models at later time 90 years after Nissan was founded we still there to do the last time I was in the UK we announced that all our new models from now will be 100%
Electric by 2030 we expect all our passenger car sales in Europe to be EV with today’s announcement we are making that Vision happen ladies and gentlemen thank you for your attention my congratulation to all the team here in sandland our other UK site and The Wider team in the Amo Legion I’m really
Pleased that our partners for nearly four decades sandan city council are joining us today too I like to welcome Patrick maral the chief executive to the stage morning everyone Sunland city council is delighted to be part of what is a momentous occasion for our friends at Nissan and indeed for Sunland the
Northeast region and UK PLC today’s news Builds on the initial 1 billion pound investment to create an ev360 Hub in sundland which was announced in 2021 in Partnership between Nissan eesc and sundon city council with the backing of government you can already see it’s transforming this an Sunland manufacturing facility
And creating the world’s first EV manufacturing ecosystem there can be no better proof of that than the UK’s first gigafactory being built by eesc that is taking shape not far from where we stand now this announcement is the culmination of months of hard work in partnership with Nissan and the UK government to
Deliver a further 2 billion pound boost for Sunland the Northeast and the country it is another significant milestone in the partnership program that places Sunland at the center of electric vehicle production in Europe creating jobs and prosperity for this Powerhouse region and supporting the low carbon Ambitions of all of our
Partners continued investment by Nissan in the e360 hub will be underpinned M the by the micro project the development of 100% renewable electricity saving 55,000 tons of carbon annually we at Sunland city council are delighted to be playing our part in enabling all of this and continuing a
Long track record of doing all we can to support business in the city to grow and Thrive here and working alongside Southside Council on the international Advanced Manufacturing Park we will continue to create the conditions for further investment in the area to create jobs and enable businesses to be
Successful the additional two models announced today require three gigafactories in the city it means Nissan’s plans for the future electric versions of kashai Juke and the replacement for the leaf will enable up to3 Billion pound investment in Sunland in and the UK protecting 7,000 jobs in thisan and 30,000 jobs in the supply
Chain today’s announcement comes also uh a new investment zone for the Northeast England the Northeast investment Zone will focus on Advanced manufacturing and green Industries building on the Arc of innovation running from North umland down through sundland and Durham with opportunities along the Ty Corridor and bringing fantastic benefits Across The Wider region
The investment Zone will bring opportunity through a total funding envelope of over1 160 million over the next 10 years enabling further investments in advanced manufacturing and green Industries across the whole of the region and will deliver an additional 4,000 jobs in its first 5 years this investment by Nissan and
Partners working with government on The Wider Northeast region vindicates our unwavering belief we have in our Collective ability to drive the electric Revolution and bring significant national projects to fruition Sunland is an ambitious City and today’s announcement is gamechanging a transformational project for a transforming City and a region that can
Continue to play a leading role in UK plc’s success long into the future we are nously proud to be playing our part in this world leading partnership thank you so thank you very much yidan and Patrick for your words for taking the time to visit our plant
Today so that concludes our ceremony our lines will start again shortly and we look forward to speaking to many of you about the details behind this fantastic news thanks thank you all very [Applause] Much
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