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Nissan is set to build its new five-seat electric car in Sunderland, following a pledge of support from the Government. Production of the Golf-sized Leaf – billed by the Japanese carmaker as the world’s first zero-emission, mass-produced car – is set to create 550 engineering jobs in the city, where Nissan says it aims to produce up to 50,000 vehicles and 60,000 batteries a year. The move follows news last summer that Nissan would invest heavily in the North East to build rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, and forms part of a £420 million investment by Nissan in UK operations. The Government has designated the region as the UK’s first “low-carbon economic area”, specialising in ultra-low carbon vehicles. However, while the car, which has a claimed average range of 100 miles, is set to appear on UK roads in the first quarter of 2011, it will not be built in Sunderland until 2013. More