Nissan

Nissan has abandoned a $500 million plan to build all-electric vehicles at its Canton, Mississippi assembly plant, the company said in a statement to Automotive News . The automaker will instead shift production to conventional gasoline and hybrid vehicles at the 4.7-million-square-foot facility. It made the move to "better align with market conditions, customer demand and Nissan's updated strategic direction," Nissan told AN in a statement.

As part of " Ambition 2030 ," Nissan announced in 2021 that it would retool its Canton facility to build EVs along with batteries for multiple Nissan and Infinity models, with the aim of selling 200,000 EVs in the US by 2028.…