Renault has decided to produce its electric city car, ZOE, at the Flins plant (France). The show car ZOE Preview, presented at the 2010 Paris Motor Show, is a forerunner of this new vehicle.

Renault will manufacture the Fluence Z.E. sedan at the OYAK-Renault Bursa plant in Turkey, with sales starting in November 2011.

The production of the LCV Kangoo Z.E. will be located at MCA (Maubeuge Carrosserie Automobile), in northern France, going on sale October 2011.

Finallly, Twizy will be manufactured in Valladolid, 150 km North West of Madrid (Spain). Compact, nimble and practical, this prospective zero-emission in use electric vehicle will fully meet all urban mobility needs.

All these sites are ISO 14001 certified.

On November 5, 2009, a letter of intent was signed between the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the French Strategic Investment Fund (FSI) to set-up a joint venture company that would develop and manufacture batteries for electric vehicles.

The joint venture between Renault, Nissan, CEA and FSI would focus on advanced research, manufacturing and the recycling of electric vehicle batteries. The joint venture plans to produce batteries from mid 2012 at the Renault Flins plant (France). Production capacity is targeted at 100,000 batteries a year.

The investment value of the first phase of the project is estimated at 600 millions Euros.

A second plant, which will manufacture advanced lithium-ion batteries, will be located at the Renault CACIA (Companhia Aveirense de Componentes para a Indústria Automóvel) industrial complex located in Aveiro (Portugal), about 250km North of Lisbon.

Construction of the plant started in 2010 and it will start running in 2012. Projected annual capacity is 50,000 units.

Two other plants will produce batteries for vehicles of the Renault-Nissan Alliance: Sunderland (Great Britain) should have an annual capacity of 60,000 units and Smyrna (Tennessee, USA) an annual capacity of 200,000 units (only for Nissan vehicles).