NSANF News and Press, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. From 05/21/18

The facts are as clear as they are painful for the U.S. automotive industry: The average U.S. gasoline price is $2.92 per gallon as of this writing (May 19): https://gasprices.aaa.com/ -- and it’s been going up. A year prior, it was $2.34. That’s an increase of 25%. ...

The following slide deck was published by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. ADR in conjunction with their 2017 Q4 earnings Read more ...

There are only two car factories in North America with annual unit output of more than 600,000, and they are both fairly similar in size: Close to, or a little under, 650,000 units per year. They are: Nissan (NSANY) in Tennessee. Volkswagen (VLKAF) in Mexico. These two factories ...

For all the talk about how Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA ) has been a great stock, FCA (NYSE: FCAU ) has done much better in the last two years. It’s gone from under $6 per share to over $22. What’s behind this monster move? The answer resides in three new products that eventually hit...

Automakers hosted press conferences at the annual New York Auto Show around March 28, to show their new wares, most of which will become available some time in 2018, although some not only until 2019. In comparison to other auto shows, there were precious few exotic concept cars, and the new v...

We have written in the past about how Nissan (NSANY) may wipe out a significant part of Tesla (TSLA) Model 3 demand worldwide. Data that is now starting to trickle in from Europe and Japan is suggesting that Leaf is a winner. After finding out that Leaf sold over 3,700 units in Japan in Fe...

Renault ( RNSDF ) ( RNLSY ) is a well-managed French car company that is the world leader in electric vehicles. It is also reasonably valued. It can benefit from further integration with Nissan ( NSANY ) ( NSANF ), in which it already owns a stake of 43%. This integration might accelerate now ...

General Motors ( GM ) is most famous in the SUV world for its body-on-frame SUVs made in its factory near Dallas, TX. It sold 277,413 of them in the U.S. alone, in 2017. That was down 5% over 2016: here. Many buyers of these body-on-frame SUVs - Tahoe, Suburban, Yukon and Escalade - howeve...

In the car industry, we often emphasize unit sales. So-and-so car sold 5,000 units this month in this-or-that geography, and so forth. And that's fine for a shorthand calculation of company performance, in many instances. But it's not the ultimate goal of the shareholder. As a shareholder,...

New fund: Automakers Renault ( OTC:RNSDF , OTCPK:RNLSY ), Nissan ( OTCPK:NSANY , OTCPK:NSANF ), and Mitsubishi ( OTCPK:MMTOF ) announced plans to establish Alliance Ventures. The venture capital fund will invest up to $1B over five years in vehicle electrification, AI, and autonomous ...