Blog of RENAULT NISSAN Alliance

• AVTOVAZ-RENAULT-NISSAN Purchasing Organization (ARNPO) to manage purchasing of all three partners in Russia, starting January 2015
• ARNPO replaces Common Purchasing Organization established by the three partners in 2013, and the individual purchasing departments of AVTOVAZ, Renault and Nissan in Russia
• ARNPO to become largest buyer in Russia’s auto industry; will help integrate AVTOVAZ further into the global industry

Yasuhiro Yamauchi has been appointed Alliance Executive Vice President, Purchasing and Chairman & Managing Director of Renault-Nissan Purchasing Organization (RNPO), effective  Jan. 1, 2015. Yamauchi replaces Christian Vandenhende who is appointed Executive Vice President, Quality and Total Customer Satisfaction, Renault.

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today unveiled the Nissan NV200 Taxi in Hong Kong. The new taxi launch was celebrated with several groups, including Direction Association for the Handicapped, which provides assistance to the elderly and rehabilitation services for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses.

Carlos Ghosn of Nissan and Renault shares the career advice he gives to his own children: "Embrace diversity." 

He shares his practical advice for building your career, based on his own diverse experiences, and how to lead a team—even when you're half their age.

In his latest LinkedIn Influencer post, Renault-Nissan Alliance CEO Carlos Ghosn explains why electric cars are the future.

The Board of Directors of the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) has re-elected Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Renault, as its President for 2015.

The "world's cleanest car" is daring its fans to get it dirty. Nissan has launched a social media campaign that will include a series of online videos to showcase a zero-emissions Nissan LEAF with self-cleaning nano-paint technology. Created to demonstrate its potential use in future production vehicles, this LEAF is armed with Ultra-Ever Dry® paint to help repel almost any liquid that may come its way. Nissan first introduced the one-of-a-kind LEAF this past April.

Renault, the Renault Foundation and ParisTech celebrated the fifth birthday of the Sustainable Mobility Institute on November 27th, 2014.

Renault, the Renault Foundation and ParisTech decided in 2009 to create a multi-disciplinary platform to co-lead research work on the future of transport and mobility solutions.

The aim of the platform is to carry out academic analysis and test innovative solutions while ensuring real-life outlets for innovations and their wide-scale rollout potential. The overarching goal is to meet the global challenges currently facing carmakers, including global warming, ecosystem re-organization adapted to electric mobility, growing urbanization and the corresponding traffic congestion problems, and the conditions for success for new mobility solutions.

In mid-November, CEO Carlos Ghosn was interviewed onstage at the Harvard Business School Club of New York. The interview, conducted by veteran journalist Maria Bartiromo of the Fox Business Network, covered a wide range of topics, including the need for companies to embrace diversity, the threat of climate change and the Alliance’s commitment to zero-emissions vehicles and sustainability. Here are some excerpts.

Alphabet France, the fourth-biggest multi-brand long-term car hire company on the French market, delivered the first 11 Renault ZOEs to the headquarters of SEPUR in Thiverval Grignon (Yvelines), on 21 November.