It takes many arms to restart the machine. Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi, destabilized for months by the legal difficulties of their former boss Carlos Ghosn , decided to flesh out the new steering structure of their alliance.
Gathered at the monthly Operational Council – device created last spring on the initiative of Jean-Dominique Senard to replace the sulphurous Dutch holding RNBV-, Alliance leaders say they have agreed “on programs to significantly improve and accelerate the operational effectiveness of the alliance for the benefit of all three. companies’, without specifying.
However, a first step has already been validated for what appears to be a new beginning for the group: the creation of a position of secretary general of the Alliance, which will be in charge of coordinating the rest of the projects under the the authority of Renault President Jean-Dominique Senard. “This Alliance leader will play a key role in coordinating and facilitating several major Alliance projects that will be launched,” reads the statement released this morning.
“Convergences”
According to sources quoted by AFP, it should be a “personality of the highest level”, “resulting from the alliance teams” and with experience of the three companies.
According to this source, the new projects launched Thursday concern in particular “the common programming of vehicles, the industrial device, the connectivity programs, the convergence of technologies”, which remains very vague. According to Reuters, citing a source at Renault, the future common electricity platform between the groups should be at the heart of these programs. The group plans to launch next year a Nissan electric crossover with a Renault original engine, followed the following year by a larger sedan than city Zoe for the diamond brand.