Electric/Hybrid - Nissan recycles LEAF batteries for use in factory automated guided vehicles - Renewable Energy Magazine, at the heart of clean energy journalism
Courtesy of Nissan. Delivery of parts by an AGV means a worker doesn't waste time searching for a component and can stay focused on installing it. Saving time in this manner therefore also boosts a plant's efficiency. Car plants are busy places and AGVs have become indispensable. At Nissan's Oppama plant, south of Tokyo, there are more than 700 AGVs. Inside Nissan's car factories around the globe there are more than 4,000 AGVs hard at work, moving around in perfect harmony and making car production more efficient. Nissan was exploring new ways to reuse its Nissan LEAF batteries, the mass-ma...