Nissan is facing its largest financial crisis in 25 years, and through its recovery plan, “Re:Nissan”, the Japanese car maker is starting to slash its production sites, beginning with the Oppama plant, just south of Tokyo – the site used to build the first Nissan Leaf.

Troubled Japanese brand's President of Africa has provided the biggest indication that it won't leave South Africa anytime soon.

Japan's Nissan Motor is in talks to allow Taiwan's Foxconn to use one of the automaker's domestic factories to build electric vehicles, said two people familiar with the matter, a deal that could save the plant from closure.