Renault-Nissan Alliance CEO Carlos Ghosn hosted a media roundtable for international journalists at the 2016 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

On January 7, the Renault-Nissan Alliance announced it will launch more than 10 vehicles with autonomous drive technology in the next four years.

Alliance TV caught up with the heads of design at Renault and Nissan at the 44th Tokyo Motor Show in Japan, Nissan’s home market. Watch this video to find out what Laurens van den Aker had to say about the stylish new Twingo for the Japanese market. And hear what Shiro Nakamura had to say about Nissan’s sleek, new autonomous drive concept IDS and the funky Teatro for Days kei car concept. In the video, the two executives also describe their company’s respective design philosophy. While both stress that design at both companies is kept strictly separate, they point out there are still areas of synergies.
 

Nissan is providing its unique Around View Monitor (AVM) technology to the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and Topy Industries, Ltd., through a joint development project that may help uncover the mysteries of the oceans.

 

There has been a lot of talk in the media recently about “Autonomous Drive” technology and a potential future of driverless cars.

 

No doubt, Autonomous Drive technology will change how we approach driving. I expect it to result a significant transformation in transportation.

 

Nissan today reinforced its European growth strategy - setting a clear path to become the most desirable Asian brand. Crossover, electric vehicles (EVs) and autonomous drive technology are central to this aspiration and Nissan will continue to defend and grow its leadership of these areas.

 

Autonomous Drive is a “megatrend” that will transform our cars and make them far safer, Carlos Ghosn told a major technology conference on Monday.

 

“All carmakers are developing this technology because it will make cars safer,” Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault Nissan Alliance, said during the opening keynote session of Mobile World Congress 2015. “It’s going to come in waves.”

 

Taking the temperature at Davos, the Alliance goes on the streets to see what people know about EVs, the LEAF2Home system and autonomous drive!

 

Contacts. Presence. Megatrends. Change. A global perspective. Whether its Alliance CEO Carlos Ghosn’s participation in a panel discussion on the BRICS or serving warm cocoa and chocolate chips cookies courtesy of the LEAF’s battery power, the Alliance successfully leveraged the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting Davos 2015 to promote its commitment to sustainability, gender parity and global growth.