Nissan's car and battery production plans

[Richard230]

The Nissan EV and battery manufacturing factory in Smyma, Tennessee is under construction and on schedule, according to an article under the SHIFT column of my newspaper.  Nissan plans to produce 150,000 Leafs a year at the plant, starting late next year. The adjacent Li-ion battery plant will have the capacity to produce up to 200,000 battery packs a year. The combined production of both the cars and battery packs will create up to 1,300 jobs when it is up and running at full capacity.

[Kelly Olsen]

The revolution is on the way.

[Richard230]

The revolution is on the way.

Unless you are in Japan and the electric power system goes off.  Then it is back to riding your bicycle.

[protomech]

The revolution is on the way.

Unless you are in Japan and the electric power system goes off.  Then it is back to riding your bicycle.

Japan is struggling both with rolling blackouts and with gas shortages. Several refineries were knocked offline, but the gas shortages are probably due more to overpurchasing and supply line disruption than actual refining capability. Japan has strategic reserves for about two weeks of normal demand, if they choose to use them.

If I had a choice between waiting 2 hours in line for gasoline and charging an electric bike from the wall (when power is online), I know what I'd choose. Not an option, of course, where the power infrastructure is down for some time - gas or human power is the way to go there.

[FreepZ]

Not an option, of course, where the power infrastructure is down for some time - gas or human power is the way to go there

Unless they are equipped with private solar panels.

Then again, even if someone did have panels, it might make more sense to share it with the neighbors to power their refrigerators and take a bicycle, rather than use it to juice up an EV. Ahh, when solar power becomes ubiquitous, these kinds of problems will have much better solutions.