Nissan Motor Company, Ltd., and Keiko Ihara, currently the only Japanese female driver competing in the World Endurance Championships (WEC) — the highest form of sports-car endurance racing in the world — have signed a partnership agreement to promote zero emission mobility.

The Renault-Nissan Alliance will use motor racing to improve the next generation of electric vehicles.

Jerry Hardcastle, Nissan’s Chief Marketability Engineer and Technical Director for Global Motorsport, told the Alliance-backed B4E Climate Summit being held in London: “The electric car has come to the road before it made it to the race track where, traditionally, technical innovations were developed.

Since 2011, more than 100,000 battery and plug-in electric vehicles have been sold in America. That’s some performance… especially as fewer than 20,000 were sold in that first year as the country’s car drivers took their tentative first steps towards embracing this new technology.

The Nissan LEAF has crossed the 25,000-sales milestone in the US, reinforcing the hatchback’s position as the world’s best-selling electric vehicle.

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has announced the start of field tests for the 100% electric e-NV200 compact van in Saitama City (Saitama Prefecture).

Saitama City is promoting the adoption of electric vehicles by linking up with a variety of stakeholders through its E-KIZUNA project. Begun in 2009, the project promotes EVs as a way to address global warming and realize a sustainable low-carbon society.

Breaking with convention, Renault’s latest electric city car – the Twin’Z concept – has not been given its world debut at a motor show, but at a furniture exhibition… the Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano, the centrepiece of that industry’s annual calendar.

Sales of Nissan LEAF are booming in Norway and the other Nordic countries... and not just for environmental reasons.

No country has sold more Nissan LEAF per capita than Norway, with the world's first mass production electric vehicle taking 1.7 per cent of all vehicle sales in 2012, its first full year on sale.

On Monday 8th April, Renault-Nissan Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn hosted an intimate gathering of media in Oslo, Europe's electric vehicle capital, and spoke about the new Nissan LEAF and his vision of zero-emissions mobility. 

Nissan's Aguascalientes plant in Mexico has become the leading user of renewable energy within the Renault-Nissan Alliance.