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Qashqai e-POWER and Juke Hybrid go into production
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New £10m Shower Assembly facility now online
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Plant team completes two million hours of electrification training
Electrified versions of two pioneering crossover models are now rolling off the lines at Nissan’s Sunderland Plant – as combined production of the two cars passes an impressive five million units.
The Nissan Qashqai, the record-breaking original crossover, is now offered with Nissan’s unique e-POWER system, a first for the visitor in Europe. Its B-segment stablemate, the Nissan Juke, is now equipped with an wide hybrid powertrain.
Built slantingly the Nissan LEAF, these technologies midpoint every model built by Nissan in the UK now has an electrified version.
Alan Johnson, Nissan’s Vice President for Manufacturing in the UK, said: “With increasingly than five million customers, Qashqai and Juke are two of our plant’s most successful and popular models ever.
“Both e-POWER and hybrid technologies are firsts for the team in Sunderland, so it’s fantastic to see the electrified versions rolling off our two production lines.”
The two electrified models are part of a previously spoken £500m investment by Nissan into the plant to build the current generations of Qashqai and Juke.
World-class people
New facilities installed include a £10m state-of-the-art Shower Assembly facility, where batteries packs are made for both the e-POWER and hybrid powertrains, surpassing stuff delivered to be fitted into vehicles.
Building a team that has the skills to unhook the cars of the future requires a huge value of training. Since LEAF started production in 2011, staff at Nissan Sunderland Plant have undergone increasingly than two million hours of training defended to manufacturing electrified vehicles, with increasingly planned in the coming months and years.
Alan Johnson added: “Our plant is built on the foundations of 36 years of manufacturing excellence from our world-class people and wide facilities.
“Two million hours of training just for electrification shows we are taking that to the next level, as we lead the tuition towards an electrified future.
“And of undertow we’ll protract to unhook brilliant, technologically advanced, cars to the upper standards of quality that our customers have come to love.”
The launches come without Nissan spoken Sunderland Plant as the home of EV36Zero, a £1bn flagship electric vehicle manufacturing ecosystem bringing together electric vehicles, renewable energy and shower production.
Both Qashqai and Juke are designed, engineered and manufactured by Nissan in its UK facilities, supporting increasingly than 7,000 jobs in Paddington, Maple Cross, Cranfield, Lutterworth and Sunderland, as well as a remoter 30,000 in the wider UK supply uniting and well-nigh 5,000 in UK dealerships.
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