At Dodger Stadium this morning, Nissan kicked off a 22-city tour to promote the company's Leaf electric vehicle. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn and was in attendance and dropped a few clues regarding how the vehicle will go to market.
We then [...]
At Dodger Stadium this morning, Nissan kicked off a 22-city tour to promote the company's Leaf electric vehicle. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn and was in attendance and dropped a few clues regarding how the vehicle will go to market.
We then [...]
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Nissan, USA
Speaking at the U.S. launch of the Nissan Leaf this morning in Dodgertown, Los Angeles, Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn was supremely confident and optimistic about the chances of his company's first electric vehicle - and [...]Nissan and Reliant Energy of Houston, Texas, one of the major competitive electricity providers in the nation, are collaborating to advance electric mobility in the United States. Reliant is a subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc. one of the largest electricity generators in the United States.
Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn [...]
The Nissan-Renault alliance is making a major push to accelerate the adoption of fully electric vehicles despite persistent skepticism the public - and the world's vehicle infrastructure - is ready to adopt such a paradigm shift, says the alliance's chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn in a guest editorial at Edmunds.com's [...]
General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre isn't much of a wallflower -- but then, no one earns a resume like his by staying quiet. In keeping with his outspoken personality, yesterday Whitacre came out swinging against the $500,000 salary cap imposed by the U.S. government on executives at companies' [...] 
Over at AutoBlog, there's a piece about Ford CEO Alan Mually saying the new Global Ranger and Ka won't be among the One Ford global models coming to US shores. Ok, I get the Ka, it's really not a practical vehicle for the US market,' [...] 
There are lots of things you could say about Mercedes-Benz's new ad for the E-Class Estate. The first thoughts to cross our minds were, "Wow, that's a nice slot-car track" and "Wow, that voiceover is a great example of German efficiency -- but not in the good way". [...] 
Last week, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne unveiled the company's five-year recovery plan. This week, we've received details about Chrysler's electric vehicle program, which has been given a fairly extreme makeover and a new direction.
Most notably, Chrysler's EV development initiative -- known as ENVI -- has been "absorbed into'" [...] 
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