St. Petersburg plant Nissan increased the production by 17% in 2021

At the end of 2021, Nissan's St. Petersburg plant produced 45,040 vehicles, which is 17% higher than in the previous year. It should be noted that since November of the previous year, the company has been working in two shifts. To date, the number of employees of the plant is about 2,000 people, according to the press service of Nissan. Qashqai crossover with 22,156 cars (+17%) remains the most popular model in the Russian Nissan assembly line.

Production of the X-Trail crossover was 20312 vehicles the last year (+18%), the flagship Murano crossover – 2572 units (+20%). It is worth noting that in April of 2021, the production of Nissan Qashqai and Nissan X-Trail crossovers with the ProPilot system, which is the first level of the autonomous driving system, as well as new Nissan Connected Services proprietary functions, started at the Nissan plant in St. Petersburg at the Nissan plant in St. Petersburg. Nissan's bestseller in the Russian market was the Nissan Qashqai crossover the previous year, the sales of which decreased by 7.4% and reached 20,474 units.

Nissan X-Trail was the second one with 19,010 sold cars, down 6.1% from a year ago. Sales of Murano full-size crossover were 2,617 units, down 7% from a year ago. In addition, Nissan exported 4,424 Russian-made vehicles to Kazakhstan and Belarus in 2021, up 37% year-on-year.