As widely reported in the media today, the UK’s first mass market electric car, the Nissan Leaf, will be built in Sunderland. The move safeguards existing jobs at the plant and creates a number of additional high value jobs in the North East, a Low Carbon Economic Area and an Electric Car Hub. In July 2009 Nissan also announced its decision to locate its electric car battery manufacturing facility at Sunderland.
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills press release
One North East press release
