Nissan | Wikipedia audio article

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00:03:04 1 History
00:03:13 1.1 Beginnings of Datsun brand name from 1914
00:06:15 1.2 Nissan name first used in 1930s
00:07:34 1.3 Nissan Motor organized in 1934
00:09:28 1.4 Nissan's early American connection
00:10:51 1.5 Austin Motor Company relations (1937–1960s)
00:13:34 1.6 100 Day Strike of 1953
00:15:14 1.7 Merger with Prince Motor Company
00:16:05 1.8 Miss Fairlady
00:17:39 1.9 Foreign expansion
00:24:23 1.10 Relationships with other car companies
00:27:48 1.11 Alliance with Renault
00:31:30 1.12 Other alliances and joint ventures
00:33:34 2 Leadership
00:35:28 3 Branding and corporate identity
00:35:38 3.1 Brands
00:37:04 3.2 Corporate identity
00:38:11 4 Products
00:38:20 4.1 Automotive products
00:41:19 4.1.1 Japan
00:47:21 4.2 Trucks
00:49:09 4.2.1 Japan
00:50:38 4.2.2 Second generation
00:51:41 4.2.3 Europe
00:52:19 4.3 Electric vehicles
00:54:45 4.4 Autonomous cars
00:56:21 4.5 Non-automotive products
00:57:14 5 Marketing activities
00:58:26 6 Global sales figures
00:58:36 7 Research and development
01:00:14 8 Manufacturing locations
01:03:36 9 See also
01:03:45 10 Notes and references
01:03:55 11 Bibliography
01:04:21 12 External links



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Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 日産自動車株式会社, Hepburn: Nissan Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha), usually shortened to Nissan ( or UK: ; Japanese pronunciation: [ɲissaɴ]), is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nishi-ku, Yokohama. The company sells its cars under the Nissan, Infiniti, and Datsun brands with in-house performance tuning products labelled Nismo. The company traces its name to the Nissan zaibatsu, now called Nissan Group.
Since 1999, Nissan has been part of the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance, a partnership between Nissan of Japan, Mitsubishi Motors of Japan and Renault of France. As of 2013, Renault holds a 43.4% voting stake in Nissan, while Nissan holds a 15% non-voting stake in Renault. From 2009 to 2017 Carlos Ghosn served as CEO of both companies. In February 2017 Ghosn announced he would step down as CEO of Nissan on 1 April 2017, while remaining chairman of the company. On 19 November 2018, Ghosn was fired as chairman following his arrest for the alleged underreporting of his income to Japanese financial authorities. After 108 days in detention, Ghosn was released on bail, but after 29 days he was again detained on new charges (4 April 2019). He'd been due to hold a news conference, but instead his lawyers released a video of Ghosn alleging this 2018-2019 Nissan scandal is itself evidence of value destruction and Nissan corporate mismanagement.In 2013, Nissan was the sixth largest automaker in the world, after Toyota, General Motors, Volkswagen Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and Ford. Taken together, the Renault–Nissan Alliance would be the world's fourth largest automaker. Nissan is the leading Japanese brand in China, Russia and Mexico.In 2014 Nissan was the largest car manufacturer in North America.Nissan is the world's largest electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, with global sales of more than 320,000 all-electric vehicles as of April 2018. The top-selling vehicle of the car-maker's fully electric lineup is the Nissan LEAF, an all-electric car and the world's top-selling highway-capable plug-in electric car in history.
In January 2018, Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa announced that all Infiniti vehicles launched from 2021 will be hybrid vehicles or all-electric vehicles.