Nidec to add electric-car motor production outside China

Trade war spurs diversification of fledgling business into Poland and Mexico

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Nidec has started shipping parts to the U.S. from Mexico instead of China. (Photo by Kosaku Mimura)

NAOKI WATANABE, Nikkei staff writer

OSAKA -- Nidec will build motors for electric vehicles at three locations around the world by 2020, rather than just China as previously planned, as the company rethinks its supply strategy amid an increasingly murky business outlook.

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