The Alliance grows stronger...
Following Nissan’s acquisition of Mitsubishi recently, it seems that together with Renault, the three brands under the leadership of Carlos Ghosn are set to work together on electric vehicle (EV) platforms and technology to keep costs down, or so reports Japanese newspaper Nikkei.
The Renault-Nissan Alliance has already announced plans for the architecture that will underpin the next generation of Nissan Leaf and Renault Zoe models, though Mitsubishi’s involvement in this mix is a new development. The Japanese paper reported that the engineering departments of the three brands would cooperate to make the production of various EV components (like motors, inverters and batteries) more efficient.
This is in line with the intentions that group CEO Ghosn has communicated in the past, that he’d like to see electric cars that cost no more than their conventionally-motivated brethren. With Mitsubishi having produced the Outlander PHEV and i-MiEV in the past, we wonder how the electric future will look like for the three brands.
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