Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn told shareholders that he earned JPY890m (US$9.8m) last year, the highest executive salary publicly revealed in Japan so far under new reporting requirements.
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Nissan's Sunderland plant in the north-east of England has started production of a newly developed engine that might create 200 new jobs over the next three years.
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Japanese-French alliance is a key strategy in gaining scale, sharing development and cutting costs, and will tap joint battery factories in North America, Europe and Japan -- with the aim of achieving output of 500,000 battery packs by 2013.
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In News Brake: Pirelli emerges as the winner for Formula One tires, the Honda CR-Z is priced, and we test-drive the 2010 Nissan Altima coupe . . . But Wait, There's More!
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Carlos Ghosn has said that Nissan and its alliance partner Renault are discussing the prospect of acquiring Ssangyong in order to expand their group's production capacity in South Korea.
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Luxury edition of hardcore Nissan spied testing.
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Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said his total compensation last year was $9.5 million, below that of many overseas peers but still making him one of the best-paid executives at a Japanese company. The Brazilian-born Frenchman made another 1.
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The Accord is about to grow straight out of its size category. We at Auto123.com still consider it a mid-size sedan because it competes against the likes of the Toyota Camry, the Ford Fusion and the Nissan Altima, but in the USA, it's classified by the EPA as a full-size sedan. Yup, the Accord is almost as big as a Crown Vic.
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Nissan North America Inc. has opened a new technical training center in Livermore, Calif., to ensure a smooth sales launch for the Leaf -- the first modern-day fully electric car from a major automaker.
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Honda Motor and Nissan Motor plastic supplier Nihon Plast has resumed production of steering wheels and other parts in China after giving workers at a south China plant higher wages and more benefits.
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The Renault-Nissan alliance wants to take its share of the Chinese market from 6% to 10% by 2013 while also growing US share from 8% to 10%, CEO Carlos Ghosn told Paris Match magazine.
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A Japanese supplier of plastic parts to Honda Motor and Nissan Motor in China said it had settled a labor dispute with workers at a south China plant after offering a bigger wage hike and more benefits.
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Nissan has received more than 14,000 reservations for its Leaf electric sedan, about 90 percent of which are from current owners of non-Nissan vehicles, said Brian Carolin, senior vice president for sales and marketing at Nissan North America Inc.
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MISSISSAUGA, ON - At a press conference today in Toronto, Ontario's Transportation Minister, the Honourable Kathleen Wynne, announced provincial incentives to promote electric vehicles in Ontario. With these incentives, Nissan LEAF - the world's first mass-marketed all-electric, real world car - will be eligible for the maximum incentive of $8,500.
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Nissan's design chief Shiro Nakamura stopped by One AutoWeek Tower on Friday afternoon during his visit to Detroit to share some insight on current and future styling trends for his company.
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So what story drew the largest just-auto audience this week, perchance? Opel's financial disappointment? Nope. Big Chinese vote of confidence in the UK's R&D skills? Uh-uh. Maybe the ongoing tiff over where the Panda will be built, covered, after hours on the phone to multiple unions and Fiat by our tenacious reporter Simon Warburton? Nah. You wanted to know instead all about how Nissan plans to make its quiet new EV noisier. Must be summer...
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Nissan North America has opened its new Livermore Training Center, located about 45 miles east of San Francisco. The facility trains dealer technicians from the northwest region which covers Northern California, Colorado, Idaho, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.
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The Renault-Nissan alliance wants to win 10 percent of the car market in China and the United States, Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of both Renault and Nissan, said in an interview with a French magazine.
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Nissan says the Juke crossover is aimed at small-sedan and -hatchback shoppers seeking a sporty alternative.
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