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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Nissan Motor Co. announced Friday it has picked its assembly plant in Tennessee for production of its first more fuel-efficient hybrid vehicle.
The company is entering the hybrid market behind some of its competitors but still expects to sell as many as 50,000 gas-electric Altimas for the 2007 model year -- a fraction of the nearly 1 million vehicles sold by Nissan North America, officials said.
"A lot of it will depend on how sales support it," said Dan Gaudette, Nissan's senior vice president of North American manufacturing and quality assurance.
Gaudette joined Gov. Phil Bredesen at a trade seminar of parts suppliers to announce that production will start in late 2006 for 2007 model year cars.
Nissan will invest $10.4 million for additional equipment and minor modifications to existing assembly lines at the plant in Smyrna, a Nashville suburb.
The company said it's not yet certain how much gas mileage improvement the new hybrid will have over the standard Altima's 31 mpg on the highway and 24 mpg in the city. Hybrid cars get better mileage because they switch between a gasoline engine and an electric motor.
Nissan will license technology from Toyota Motor Corp. instead of developing its own hybrid parts. http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0506/18/autos-219322.htm
The company is entering the hybrid market behind some of its competitors but still expects to sell as many as 50,000 gas-electric Altimas for the 2007 model year -- a fraction of the nearly 1 million vehicles sold by Nissan North America, officials said.
"A lot of it will depend on how sales support it," said Dan Gaudette, Nissan's senior vice president of North American manufacturing and quality assurance.
Gaudette joined Gov. Phil Bredesen at a trade seminar of parts suppliers to announce that production will start in late 2006 for 2007 model year cars.
Nissan will invest $10.4 million for additional equipment and minor modifications to existing assembly lines at the plant in Smyrna, a Nashville suburb.
The company said it's not yet certain how much gas mileage improvement the new hybrid will have over the standard Altima's 31 mpg on the highway and 24 mpg in the city. Hybrid cars get better mileage because they switch between a gasoline engine and an electric motor.
Nissan will license technology from Toyota Motor Corp. instead of developing its own hybrid parts. http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0506/18/autos-219322.htm
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