Renault-Nissan
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Nissan expects to deliver the 200,000th Leaf in January.
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Battery Breakthrough To Boost Nissan Electric Cars To One In 10 Sales Around 2020, Exec Says
Back in November 2009, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said 20 percent of his company's sales would be electric cars by 2020--and that electric cars would make up 10 percent of global sales. But Ghosn was widely pillored for his projections just a few years later, when Nissan Leaf sales proved slower than...
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Renault To Return To N America With Twizy Low-Speed Electric Car?
Four of Europe's six mass-market carmakers have long sold cars in North America. The exceptions, for a quarter of a century, have been the two French makers: PSA Peugeot Citroën and Renault. Now it appears that Renault may be considering a return to the continent, using its Twizy low-speed...
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First Electric Pickup Truck: Renault Kangoo ZE Not For U.S. (Forbidden Fruit)
A French company offers a pickup truck conversion for the Renault Kangoo Z.E. electric van.
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Electric Cars Win For 4 Reasons, Says Nissan's Carlos Ghosn
It's hardly a secret that Nissan is by far the world's biggest seller of electric cars, and that its foray into the field four years ago was the work of its CEO, Carlos Ghosn. Now Ghosn has laid out the four reasons that he believes electric cars are being adopted--and will continue to do so in the...
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Nissan 'Quite Optimistic' About Electric Cars, Holding Off On Hydrogen
Nissan is sticking with battery-electric cars, an executive says.
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Carlos Ghosn describes climate change as an "unprecedented humanitarian challenge."
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Nissan And Renault Together Pass 200,000 Electric-Car Sales
A little less than four years ago, the first 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car was delivered to eager buyer Olivier Chalouhi in San Francisco. Earlier this month, Nissan and its partner the French carmaker Renault delivered their 200,000th electric car. DON'T MISS: Three Years With The First Nissan...
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Nissan's Electric-Car Battery Future: Will It Be With LG Chem?
Nissan is set to close electric-car battery plants in England and the U.S. and turn to Korean maker LG Chem for some batteries. Or perhaps not. A startling and exclusive Reuters report yesterday said that Nissan is in the middle of reassessing its plans for electric-car production and global...
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2012 Renault Fluence Z.E. Comprehensive Drive Report
You might not know it, but the 2012 Renault Fluence Z.E. electric car is technically the world’s most in-demand electric car. With a massive 100,000 cars ordered by battery swap and charging infrastructure company Better Place and production already underway, the French designed electric...
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Nissan Building Plug-in Hybrid For 2015, 1.5 Million Electric Cars By 2017
It might be celebrating a global total of 15,000 all-electric Nissan Leafs since the model was launched last year, but Nissan isn’t planning to keep its plug-in technology inside pure electric cars, it has revealed today. Talking at an event in Yokohama, Japan earlier, Renault-Nissan CEO...
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How Much Has Nissan Spent on Electric Cars? $5.6 Billion...And Counting
Bringing a new car to market costs a lot of money -- around $1-2 billion per platform on a new volume vehicle. As any auto industry insider will tell you, it isn’t just money either -- it’s about years of planning, development and testing before a car is ready to make the transition...
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Google’s head offices in Mountain View, California has just got some new neighbors, but unlike most of the other companies in the fabled silicon valley it isn’t a fresh-faced venture-funded software or green tech startup firm. It’s an automaker. Moving into offices just over the road from the Internet search engine giant, automotive partners Renault-Nissan plan to use Silicon Valley’s best brains to develop the latest software and hardware for the alliance’s range of all-electric and advanced technology vehicles. “The Alliance is at the vanguard of the auto...
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Renault Spy Scandal Update: Prosecutor Begins Inquiries
2011 has been touted as the year when electric cars will well and truly break into the public consciousness. Unfortunately for Renault, the story making all the headlines so far hasn't been the launch of one of its upcoming Z.E. models, but the news of industrial espionage and selling technical...
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Spy Games: Renault Electric Vehicle Work Riddled With Moles?
Monday morning opened on an anxious note for French automaker Renault. The company said it suspended without pay three executives, who have not yet been named. It fears that details and intellectual property connected to its comprehensive electric-vehicle program were leaked to unnamed parties...
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Smart, Nissan to Share Car for U.S.
Smart USA has confirmed it will have a new car in its showrooms starting in late 2011--and that the new car will be sourced from Nissan. As a part of a wide-ranging cooperation forged earlier this year between Nissan-Renault and Daimler, the companies will share technology and development costs for...
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2011 Renault Kangoo Express Z.E: Value For Money EV Van
Renault may not have much of an impact to U.S. motorists, but thanks to their partnership with Nissan, they have a large part to play in the future of electric vehicles. The French company has been a market leader in the European light commercial vehicle (LCV) market since 1998, so it's only...
Antony Ingram