EV

Faced with a new kind of car never tested before, one man's unenviable mission was to solve all the electric vehicle's safety conundrums.

There is a man who has the heads-up on all the dangers you might face in a Nissan car. His research field is inexhaustible: Everything and anything that can happen to a vehicle. Whatever minute occurrence life throws at a car, it's his job to test it out.

At the 2012 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress in April, about 12,000 engineers from around the globe were in Detroit, Michigan to talk about where the auto industry is going.  In two words…getting connected.

“When we chose ‘get connected’ for this year’s theme, it was not meant in just the obvious way of connecting electric vehicles to the grid.

The Renault-Nissan Alliance team caught up with CEO Carlos Ghosn at the New York international auto show and began by asking him about the Alliance’s latest industrial offensive in emerging markets - the opening of a new production facility at the Togliatti plant in Russia. Four hundred million euros are being invested into the new 250,000-square-meter industrial complex that will add capacity of up to 350,000 cars per year – Renault and Nissan models, as well as AVTOVAZ Ladas.

Watch the video interview here.

Robert Llewellyn is an English actor, blogger, presenter, writer… but did you know he was also a true EV enthusiast? And we are big fans of his. He’s test-driving our Renault Twizy and thinks it’s “pretty cool”…

Check out his video.

Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn spoke with the Global Media Center about EV batteries and development of energy storage solutions during a recent trip to the Zama plant in Kanagawa prefecture.