Nissan completely abandons plans for EV production in Mississippi

Nissan had already put its plans to produce electric vehicles for the Nissan and Infiniti brands at its US plant in Canton on hold last year. Now, the project has been completely discontinued.

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Nissan North America has announced that Nissan Motor has completely abandoned its plans for electric vehicle production in Mississippi. This decision is officially part of a strategic review of the company’s policy, following a collapse in US EV sales after the end of government incentives. Nissan had already halted the production of a new model year of the Japan-built battery-electric SUV Ariya for the US market, citing the current market situation.

Plans for EV production at the Canton plant had already been postponed last July to monitor market developments after the end of incentives. In October, the project was temporarily put on hold. Nissan had originally planned to produce two battery-electric SUV models at its Canton plant in Mississippi from 2028 onwards. These were intended to be electric crossovers, one for the Nissan brand and the other for its premium brand, Infiniti. As early as 2025, plans for two battery-electric saloons (one for Nissan and one for Infiniti) were scrapped, and an earlier planned smaller electric SUV was also abandoned.

Instead of launching five US-produced EVs, Nissan will now serve the local market solely with imported electric vehicles such as the new Leaf. Meanwhile, the Canton plant is set to expand production of conventional cars: since the end of incentives, petrol-powered vehicles have regained ground in the US.

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Mr Howard S MARKS

05.05.2026 um 15:30

Japan, USA, Russia and South Africa will be last four ICE holdout nations, when it comes to consumer vehicles. USA is now doing with EVs what Japan did with Solar and EVs in an earlier period completely letting a leading position go in favour of regression. While Russia and South Africa despite being fellow founding fathers of BRICS have higher import Tariff taxation on Chinese EVs than on imported ICE vehicles. The situation in South Africa is much worse than in Russia where there is a history of grey market importation and in the case of EVs clubs and businesses bringing in cars from China. Local councils, public institutions and businesses are installing charging points in various parts of Russia and there is more chance of a domestic EV industry developing in Russia than in South Africa. Before the rise of China, Japan and USA stood to be leaders but they threw it all away. Japan's EV fleet is pitiful because Japanese tend to only buy domestic and their industry leaders fought against EVs and sunk and lost Billion$ on Hydrogen Fuel Cell.