Nissan, Renault, and Mitsubishi to Invest $25 Billion in Electric Vehicles Over 5 Years

Major global carmakers are increasingly prioritising electric and hybrid vehicles as concern about climate change grows.

By Agence France-Presse | Updated: 27 January 2022 16:50 IST

Nissan, Renault, and Mitsubishi to Invest $25 Billion in Electric Vehicles Over 5 Years

The money promised by Renault, Nissan, and Mitsubishi Motors comes from funding they announced last year

Highlights

Renault and Nissan will work together to make electric cars
Nissan would spend JPY 2 trillion (roughly Rs. 1,30,440 crore)
Renault unveiled a five-year EUR 10 billion (roughly Rs. 84,060 crore)

Renault and Nissan will work more closely together to make electric cars, they said on Thursday, detailing their plans to spend EUR 23 billion (roughly Rs. 1,93,350 crore) on the transition to cleaner vehicles over the next five years.

The two-decade old alliance, which also includes Mitsubishi Motors, said it would increase the number of common platforms for electric vehicles (EV) to five from four.

They will be used to build a combined EV line-up of 35 vehicles by 2030, the companies said in a press release.

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They also said that by 2026 four fifths of all their models would share common platforms, compared with 60 percent now.

"The alliance remains a powerful partnership. We benefit from shared experience and expertise," said Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida.

The commitment to pool resources comes as the three companies face growing competition from bigger carmakers with deeper pockets, such as Toyota Motor, which in December pledged to spend $70 billion (roughly Rs. 5,25,900 crore) to electrify its fleet, as well as EV specialists such as Tesla.

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The money promised by Renault, Nissan, and Mitsubishi Motors on Thursday comes from funding they announced last year.

Nissan said in November it would spend JPY 2 trillion (roughly Rs. 1,30,440 crore) over five years to accelerate vehicle electrification, including on EVs and hybrid gasoline-electric cars.

In June, Renault unveiled a five-year EUR 10 billion (roughly Rs. 84,060 crore) EV strategy with a plan to launch 10 models and to have EVs account for 90 percent of all models by 2030.

Holding their alliance together is a cross-shareholding relationship, with Renault owning 43.4 percent of Nissan, which in turn has a 15 percent non-voting stake in the French car company and a third of Mitsubishi Motors' stock.

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