An assembly line worker puts a battery, seen right under the body, to a Nissan Motor Co.'s electric vehicle Leaf at the Japanese automaker's Oppama plant in Yokosuka near Tokyo. Nissan resumed auto and parts production at more Japanese factories last week, but it may be several months before inventories and other elements of the country's auto industry return to normal.(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, file)
published Monday, March 21st, 2011







