Radiation Control port cars in Japan before exporting
Nissan Americas said it will begin monitoring of cars imported from Japan for radioactive materials today The automaker has also tried to cancel the supply shortage fears, especially for the electric Nissan Leaf demand.
Nissan is the first Japanese automaker to monitor its vehicles for radioactivity, a movement to help quell a growing hysteria on radioactivity in Japanese imports because of the failure of central Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power in northern Japan's Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, a trade association, issued a statement last night saying he detected no harmful radiation levels in the auto plants of its member companies, the Wall Street Journal.
Nissan said it would continue to monitor the radioactivity until it is confident that any risk of contamination is completely eliminated.
Nissan also made sure to answer any possible concerns regarding its vehicle SUPPLIES The company says it has a supply of 47 days of Nissan vehicles in America and a supply of 49 days Infiniti vehicles The industry average is currently at 60 days, so Nissan inventory levels are certainly stricter than most When the automaker has updated us on Wednesday, he said he was about a 50-day supply of inventory US company says it should be able to continue to operate its auto plants based U S for at least the next seven days without the parties, it usually gets Japan After March 25, the company will reassess the situation vehicles like the Nissan Altima, Maxima, Xterra, Frontier, Pathfinder, Titan and Infiniti QX56 are built in the U S.
600 Nissan Leafs are directed to U S can be added to vehicles already stateside total of about 1500 Leafs, Nissan said through late February the automaker had only sold 173 Leafs.
Honda said it will also continue the suspension of production in Japan until Wednesday The automaker initially planned to resume production on Sunday, the company built the Honda Accord and Acura TSX in Japan.
Mazda will resume vehicle production at its plants Tuesday The automaker built most of its vehicles in the southwest of Japan, which is far from the devastation of the earthquake and tsunami Mazda6 and Tribute are built in the U S.
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