The CEO of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn (62), will be stepping down after 16 years in that role, according to recent reports. The move will reportedly allow Ghosn to focus on the deployment of “his cost-cutting expertise” across the alliance — at Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, in addition to Nissan.
“We started at the beginning. We were seeing something that other people did not see. Now they are seeing it.” Carlos Ghosn explains that the Renault-Nissan Alliance has been a leader and continues as a catalyst in advancing autonomous vehicle technology, and it aims to continue that leadership. Enjoy watching Ghosn with his hands-free behind the wheel he does little to nothing with, as he experiences a complex drive in an autonomous drive car.
The second generation of the Nissan LEAF will feature the company’s ProPilot technology — allowing for autonomous travel on highways under many circumstances — according to Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn.
Editor’s Intro: Nicolas Zart and Matthew Klippenstein recently recorded Cleantech Talk #30 for CleanTechnica. It’s an interesting discussion about coal phaseout in Canada, Nissan’s sale of 41% of its stake in Calsonic, and Volkswagen’s EV transition … or latest hiccups.
The CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, Carlos Ghosn, recently made some very interesting comments concerning strategy for the electric vehicle market in China while speaking at the New York Times Energy for Tomorrow conference in Paris.
We heard a while back that Nissan was considering jumping into the plug-in hybrid market, despite till now focusing its plug-in hybrid options on only pure electrics. Now, Nissan CEO & Chairman Carlos Ghosn (who is also CEO & Chairman of Renault) says this is indeed on the way for sometime this … [continued]
There’s no denying that Nissan’s electric car leadership position has worn off quite sharply in the past year, and that seems to be directly due (in part) to expectations of coming long-range electric cars. The launch of the Tesla Model 3 just thrashed any near-term hope Nissan may have had in … [continued]
Carlos Ghosn was once aiming to make the Renault-Nissan Alliance the world’s electric vehicle leader. To some extent (if you look at sales of electric cars to date), it currently is, but there’s obviously a looming vehicle and sales production target that looks set to blow the Alliance out of … [continued]
As with the renewable energy news link bomb I just published, here’s another one dedicated to electric car news: Tesla Motors Stuff Tesla Autopilot Performs Flawlessly During Motley Fool Highway Test GM Has Lobbied Against Tesla’s Direct Sales Model In At Least Five States Tesla Fights On In Utah And Connecticut Blogger Says Tesla Is Building Throwaway Cars … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. The Chinese government is currently aiming to have at least 5 million electric cars on its roads by the year 2020 — largely as a means of cutting down on the country’s very high levels of air pollution. Unsurprisingly, this stated goal looks like a … [continued]
