As well as promoting the benefits of zero-emission mobility to its public, the French authorities are practising what they preach: they are buying more than 17,000 electric vehicles from Renault for use by the government and public authorities.

The Renault-Nissan Alliance is helping customers turn their electric vehicles into carbon-neutral transportation.
Watch this video, which was produced in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), for more. The video was part of CNBC’s Responsible Business Television series which aired during Rio+20, the world’s largest environmental summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June.

From June 13 to June 22, the Renault-Nissan Alliance was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for Rio+20 to demonstrate that EVs are a real and affordable solution for sustainable transportation. The Alliance ran an EV shuttle for the UN delegates and had its EVs on display at the HSBC Arena where the public could sign up for test drives.
See our recap video here:

Dr. Awni Behnam, president of the International Ocean Institute and former, longtime UN diplomat, took a ride in Nissan LEAF and Twizy at Rio+20.

In this video interview, he talks about the need for both clean modes of transportation, as well as energy sources in order to combat C02 emissions. He also describes his amazement at how quiet electric vehicles are and how he believes they can go a long way in improving our quality of life.

On June 18, Toshiaki Otani, Managing Director for the Renault-Nissan Alliance Battery Business, met with Brazilian media in the morning before attending a UN co-sponsored conference on electric mobility at the headquarters of Electrobras Furnas, the largest renewable energy maker in Brazil.

At the “Global Forum on Electric Mobility: Greening Transport for Sustainable Development,” Mr. Otani spoke about the arrival of the age of zero-emission mobility and the need for the public and private sector to work together for a sustainable transport future.

One of our Renault Fluence Z.E.s escaped from our official fleet to meet some locals near the beach.

Paulo Eduardo, a hang-gliding instructor, got a chance to test drive the car and told us how riding a Renault Fluence Z.E. is very much like gliding through the air!

Our Renault Fluence Z.E. and Nissan LEAF have been working hard shuttling UN delegates around all day. So we decided to give them some time off and take them to the beach.
They had a lot of fun but got held up in Ipanema... and not by the traffic.

A fleet of electric vehicles from the Renault-Nissan Alliance will shuttle United Nations delegates at its Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, the world’s largest environmental summit.

More than 50,000 delegates, including 400 from the UN, are expected to attend the summit - nicknamed “Rio+20” - to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the United Nations’ Earth Summit in Rio, where countries agreed to a blueprint for economic growth, social equity and environmental protection.

Welcome to Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where the Alliance is running an EV shuttle service for the United Nations delegates. Close to the RioCentro Convention Center where most of the high-level Rio+20 talks are taking place, you will find the HSBC Arena. This is where Nissan LEAF, Renault Kangoo Z.E. and Twizy are on display and where you can sign up for a zero-emission test drive. 

Here is Mia Nielsen introducing our activities in Rio.

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