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Delivery of parts by an AGV means a worker doesn t waste time searching for a component and can stay focused on installing it. Saving time in this manner therefore also boosts a plant s efficiency.
Car plants are busy places and AGVs have become indispensable. At Nissan s Oppama plant, south of Tokyo, there are more than 700 AGVs. Inside Nissan s car factories around the globe there are more than 4,000 AGVs hard at work, moving around in perfect harmony and making car production more efficient.
Nissan was exploring new ways to reuse its Nissan LEAF batteries, the mass-market electric vehicle that has spearheaded the company s journey towards zero emissions since 2010. The first-generation LEAF was fitted with a 24-kilowatt-hour battery pack. These lithium-ion packs were made by combining 48 modules. About eight years ago, Nissan s engineers found a way to take three of these modules, repackage them and fit them inside an AGV. Last year, they took this idea to
Nissan has developed a way to recycle and reuse its old Leaf batteries. It uses them in the robots that help make new leafs, making the process circular.