Nissan is currently in talks with manufacturing giant Foxconn to produce electric vehicles at its embattled plant in Oppama, sources familiar with the familiar have told Nikkei in a 6 July report. The Oppama plant has been a potential target for closure amid wider cost-cutting measures, but producing Foxconn-brand EVs could help save jobs—the plant currently employs around 3,900 people—and keep existing supplier networks in place.
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