The new Alliance between Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi celebrated last year is definitely no longer exclusive.
Each of its members is now open to partnerships with other automotive players.
“Polyamory” is now authorized.
On Friday, the two Japanese rivals, Nissan and Honda, surprised by announcing that they were studying a strategic partnership to jointly produce key components for electric vehicles and to collaborate in the field of AI on their software platforms.
These two manufacturers are the enemy brothers of the automobile in Japan.
A bit like Peugeot and Renault in France.
The leaders of the two Japanese groups explained, during a press conference in Tokyo, that there was now an urgent need to unite: "
Emerging players are very aggressive and are making breakthroughs at incredible speed
", declared Makoto Uchida, the general director of Nissan, referring without naming the Chinese manufacturers...
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