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Chrysler And Whole Auto Industry Adding Jobs To Meet Surging Sales

February 28, 2013 at 7:30 am

by David Kiley AOL Autos February 28, 2012 As consumers pile back into the market for a new car, the good news is that high-value auto manufacturing jobs keep getting added, and in cities that can sure use the help… Automakers are investing in new jobs in the U.S. as the industry has recovered from selling just about 10 million new vehicles in 2009 to an anticipated 15.5 million this year. Since 2009, and after the domestic auto industry was […]

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Memo from Detroit Auto Show: “We’re hiring!”

January 28, 2013 at 5:44 am

Even during the darkest days of the U.S. auto industry, when industry giants GM and Chrysler faced bankruptcy in 2009 and threatened to take hundreds of supplier firms with them, the Detroit Auto Show was still a place to see innovative car designs and the latest in automotive technology. Back then, however, the Motor City’s annual celebration of its hometown industry wasn’t much of a place to go job-hunting. Four years later, it’s a different story.

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Nissan Likely to Launch U.S. Hybrid Production

January 24, 2013 at 2:18 pm

by Paul A. Eisenstein The Detroit Bureau January 24, 2013 Nissan is likely to start producing a new generation of hybrid-electric vehicles at its assembly plant in Smyrna, Tennessee in the near future. The Infiniti JX is among the first models assembled in the U.S. that will be equipped with Nissan’s new 1-motor/2-clutch hybrid system, senior sources told TheDetroitBureau.com. Other American-made models, including the new Altima and Pathfinder, along with next-generation versions of the Rogue and Murano may also add […]

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Nissan Opens US Leaf Battery Plant

December 13, 2012 at 11:51 am

by Bryan Laviolette The Detroit Bureau December 13, 2012 Nissan took a major step toward U.S. production of its Leaf electric vehicle with the beginning of lithium-ion battery production in at its plant in Smyrna, Tenn… Nissan has invested $1.7 billion in the battery plant and tooling to produce the Leaf in Smyrna. Nissan obtained a federally guaranteed $1.4 billion loan to help fund the project. So far, Nissan has added 300 jobs between battery production and setting up for […]

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Nissan to add shift, 800 jobs at Tennessee plant

October 19, 2012 at 12:58 pm

by Associated Press October 19, 2012 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. announced Friday it will add a third shift at a vehicle assembly plant in Tennessee, adding more than 800 jobs… The staffing for the expanded work hours bring the total new Nissan jobs in the state to more than 2,000 since the middle of last year. About 5,600 people currently work at the Smyrna plant that first began production in 1983. The Smyrna plant makes Nissan’s […]

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2013 Nissan Leaf Edges Closer To Production In Smyrna, TN

August 27, 2012 at 6:53 am

by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield Green Car Reprots August 27, 2012 Later this year, Nissan will start producing the 2013 all-electric Leaf at its Smyrna facility in Tennessee. The first time the car has been made outside of Japan, the 2013 models will be made alongside some of Nissan’s other popular cars, including the 2013 Pathfinder, Altima, Maxima, Rogue and Infiniti JX Crossover. Read more…

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