Dan Heur, project manager-vehicles at Nissan's Smyrna plant, discussed why the company decided against a dedicated Leaf assembly line, stating, "As unique as the (Leaf) is from a parts standpoint ...

Nissan builds its all-electric Leaf cars at its plant in Smyrna, TN, where it employs 7,000 workers (although that number includes many workers who aren’t on the assembly line). The factory ...