El futuro de la planta brit\u00e1nica de Nissan en Sunderland est\u00e1 asegurado a largo plazo gracias al acuerdo comercial alcanzado entre el Reino Unido y la UE. A cambio, el fabricante de autom\u00f3viles japon\u00e9s est\u00e1 incluso invirtiendo en el emplazamiento ingl\u00e9s.<\/p>\n
Como el BBC<\/em> informa, citando al director de operaciones de Nissan, Ashwani Gupta, que el fabricante de autom\u00f3viles valora ahora el acuerdo del Brexit como \"positivo para Nissan\". \"Ha creado un entorno competitivo para Sunderland, no s\u00f3lo dentro del Reino Unido, sino tambi\u00e9n fuera\", declar\u00f3 Gupta a la BBC.<\/p>\n Seg\u00fan el informe, Nissan quiere construir una capacidad adicional de producci\u00f3n de bater\u00edas en Sunderland. Pero en este punto, se vuelve un poco vago, ya que el informe afirma que las bater\u00edas para el modelo el\u00e9ctrico Leaf ensambladas en Sunderland se importar\u00e1n de Jap\u00f3n.<\/p>\n Sin embargo, esto simplemente no es cierto: Nissan abri\u00f3 su propia producci\u00f3n de c\u00e9lulas de bater\u00edas para el Leaf en Sunderland en 2012. Aunque la mayor parte de la divisi\u00f3n de bater\u00edas, denominada AESC, se vendi\u00f3 al inversor financiero chino CSR Capital en 2017, Nissan sigue manteniendo una participaci\u00f3n minoritaria. El sitio el acuerdo se torci\u00f3 en 2018<\/a>, pero fue recogido por el Grupo Envision<\/a>. As\u00ed pues, la planta de Sunderland sigue produciendo c\u00e9lulas para el Leaf, que se utilizan en los paquetes de 40 kWh.<\/p>\n En cambio, los packs de 62 kWh del Leaf e+ proceden de la planta de AESC en Smyrna, en el estado norteamericano de Tennessee, como aclar\u00f3 un portavoz de Nissan al ser preguntado por electrive.<\/em> \"Con el acuerdo del Brexit, ahora llegan los aranceles a las bater\u00edas fabricadas en EE.UU., lo que har\u00eda que el Leaf e+ no fuera rentable para las ventas en la UE\", dijo el portavoz. \"En consecuencia, la producci\u00f3n de la bater\u00eda de 62 kWh para el Leaf e+ de la UE por parte de AESC Envision tambi\u00e9n se trasladar\u00e1 a la planta de bater\u00edas de Sunderland. Esto mantendr\u00e1 la competitividad del Leaf e+ para el mercado de la UE\".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El futuro de la planta brit\u00e1nica de Nissan en Sunderland est\u00e1 asegurado a largo plazo gracias al acuerdo comercial alcanzado entre el Reino Unido y la UE.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":147645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9930],"tags":[10230,10914,960,322,383,4311,2158],"class_list":["post-147664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automobile","tag-batteries","tag-battery-production","tag-eu","tag-leaf","tag-nissan","tag-sunderland","tag-uk"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":" The trade agreement between the UK and the EU stipulates that at least 55 percent of the value added must be created in the UK or EU countries if a car is to be exported duty-free from the UK to the EU. That apparently would no longer have been the case with the Leaf e+’s expensive battery imported from the USA.<\/p>\n “We’ve decided to localise the manufacture of the 62kWh battery in Sunderland so that all our products qualify [for tariff-free export to the EU],” Gupta told the BBC. “We are committed to Sunderland for the long term under the business conditions that have been agreed.” The report does not detail exactly what production capacity Nissan and AESC are targeting for localised manufacturing.<\/p>\n Nissan is now the UK’s largest automaker with its Sunderland plant, which produces the Leaf and the Qashqai SUV model, among others. In the run-up to Brexit, Nissan had repeatedly warned that the Sunderland plant could operate “unsustainably” if the UK left the EU without a trade deal.<\/p>\n The Sunderland plant employs 6,000 people directly at Nissan, but the company says 70,000 people in the supply chain work toward the plant. Sunderland was already building the first generation Leaf for Europe, and since 2017 has been on the second generation.<\/p>\n The battery division, which now operates as AESC, has a capacity of 1.9 GWh per year in Sunderland, according to the company. In November 2020, it was announced that AESC was looking into developing Sunderland into a “gigafactory” site<\/a> as part of a feasibility study supported by the UK government.<\/p>\n