Nissan plans to build lithium-ion battery plant in Portugal+

TOKYO, March 2 Kyodo - Nissan Motor Co. and the Portuguese government have agreed to study the establishment of a plant in Portugal to produce lithium-ion batteries to be installed in electric vehicles, the Japanese automaker said Monday.

This would make Portugal the second country, after Japan, where Nissan is
setting up a lithium-ion battery plant.
Nissan plans to establish a joint venture with a Portuguese company to produce
the batteries.
Nissan, in a joint venture with the NEC Corp. group, plans to start producing
lithium-ion batteries at Nissan's Zama factory in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, by
March 2010 and to produce electric vehicles at its Oppama factory in Yokosuka
in the same prefecture.
Nissan plans to start selling electric vehicles in Japan and the United States
in 2010 and launch such vehicles in Portugal in 2011.