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The battery packs must be made in a highly controlled environment where workers don sterile uniforms to handle the parts. And because the vehicle itself is electric, there will be no need for engine parts, exhaust systems, mufflers, oil filters, fuel tanks and related parts.
Nissan also will produce the car’s electric motors internally.
That is a different scenario from the industry’s big billion-dollar plant investments of the past, which always meant a cornucopia of supplier contracts. Automakers typically speak of creating two to four parts and material supplier jobs for every vehicle assembly position created by a new plant.