The Alliance is running an EV shuttle for the United Nations at Rio+20. Kathleen Abdalla, Chief of the organization and logistics of Rio+20 at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, comments after the shuttle handover ceremony and tells us how electric mobility is an important contributor to advancing the goals of sustainable development.

With a full range of pure electric vehicles, Renault and Nissan are the global leaders in sustainable mobility.

The Renault-Nissan Alliance has spent many years perfecting a range of silent-running electric vehicles that produce no tailpipe emissions whatsoever:
-   Family cars
-   Chic urban transport
-   Compact hatchbacks
-   Practical vans

A pair of Nissan LEAF zero-emission electric taxis has hit the streets of Brazil’s biggest city.

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.

Thierry Koskas, Renault Program Director for Electric Vehicles and a member of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, tells The New Economy about the successful new models that are driving zero-emission motoring. Nissan has sold more than 27,000 LEAFs since launching the family hatchback in December 2010, and Renault has already taken more than 5,000 orders for its new EVs since they launched late last year.

Koskas also explains the changes making electric vehicles more appealing and accessible, and the behaviours they're set to change forever.

Which is Europe’s most eco-conscious city? Nissan aims to find out with the launch of a far-reaching campaign designed to ‘turn on’ one million people to the benefits of electric vehicles (EVs) in just 100 days.

The Big Turn On will use digital and social media to switch Europe on to a zero-emission future. Advocates in the UK, the Netherlands, France and Germany will be encouraged to pledge their support for EVs by clicking the ‘turn on’ button on the campaign’s website – www.thebigturnon.com.