Nissan seeks to sell AESC electric-car battery venture: report

2016 Nissan Leaf

Nissan, alone among high-volume electric car makers, owns half of the company that makes the battery cells for its cars. Tesla Motors doesn’t own any of Panasonic, which has supplied all cells to date for its three vehicles (though Panasonic owns a small part of Tesla). GM doesn’t own any of LG Chem, nor does BMW own any of its various cell… …read more