Nissan partnering with car rental co to make electric cars

Europcar and the car manufacturer Nissan have come to together in partnership to start marketing electric cars in 2010. The joint venture between Nissan and Europcar is a first for the car rental industry and show commitment on behalf of Europcar to educate their own customers in alternative car hire. The cars will initially be [...]

Nissan doing R & D on hybrid tech

Everybody these days wants to be green.  There are massive amounts of money and incentives for any automaker to build a vehicles that get better mileage.  Hybrids have the spotlight in that category as they get outstanding mileage by supplementing gas power with stored electric. Nissan is no exception, and they offer a hybrid Nissan [...]

Chrysler halts talks with Nissan, Treasury says no money for merger

So it would seem that Cerberus has no intention of not selling most of their stake in chrysler.  If Nissan had some to the table with more than 20% in their offer Cerberus probably would have taken more time to consider that deal.  For now we’ll have to settle for Chrysler making Nissan’s Titan and [...]

Renault-Nissan looking to buy 20% of Chrysler

Renault-Nissan has a presence in the US market through Nissan, but it’s a small one.  The company has been looking for a partner in the US for some time now, they’ve proposed alliances with GM in the past.  Now, at a time when Cerberus seems like it wants to get out of the car business [...]

Renault not in talks with Cerberus

With all the rumors flying around about the chrysler sale and or merger many journalists have posited that Renault-Nissan is one of the potential buyers.  It makes sense, afterall, Nissan and Chrysler have a close relationship right now.  Starting in 2010 Chrysler will build the Nissan Titan and Nissan will build a small car for [...]

Nissan to sell all electric in 2010

Nissan motors has fallen behind Toyota and Honda in the green category.  Both rivals have very fuel efficient cars and hybrids to help them with sales and their environmental image.  Nissan is hoping to jump past both competitors with an electric drive vehicle. This first offering is likely to be a small economy car and [...]