The company is sufficiently confident in the solution it has developed that parts are fabricated and teams assembled for rapid installation of battery modifications on jets already delivered once FAA gives the go-ahead.

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Importantly, LEAF is now assembled in the United States at Nissan's Smyrna, Tenn. assembly plant, with battery production taking place right next door in the country's largest lithium-ion automotive battery plant.

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