How the Nissan Leaf is Made

This is an educational video about the production of the Nissan Leaf. The battery, inverter, and electric motor modules are manufactured in Zama and Yokohama, Japan. The parts go to their Oppama plant, where the modules are plugged into the Leaf chassis. The Nissan Leaf rolls off the same production line as Nissan’s regular cars, but they basically “mount a battery instead of a fuel tank, and a motor instead of a gasoline-fueled engine.” Nissan hopes to produce the modules locally, while shipping them off to be assembled into Leafs in countries around the world. Everything looks very high tech and efficient for auto manufacturing, Detroit should take notes.

Nissan Leaf on Top Gear

This is a pretty vanilla review of the Nissan Leaf. Robert Llewellyn makes a nice point about carbon dioxide emissions, that many laymen fail to consider. When comparing the emissions of an electric to a petrol powered vehicle, you have to consider that the combined emissions of the journey from the oil well to the pump, not just the emissions from the tailpipe. It is only fair if you measure the electricity source emissions.

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