NSANF News and Press, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. From 07/11/18

June 2018, plus or minus a month, saw four all-new cars hit the market, all with base prices within approximately $3,000 of each other: Volkswagen Jetta - base $20,195 with auto Toyota Corolla hatchback - base $22,010 with auto Hyundai Veloster - base $20,385 with auto N...

For good reason, almost two decades ago, the Toyota (NYSE: TM ) Prius became almost synonymous with “hybrid” - and largely for good reason. Toyota got the powertrain technology down right: It was smooth, reliably fuel efficient, and just plain reliable. Witness the Prius taxica...

The review embargo for a milestone in the history of electric cars - the Jaguar (Tata Motors (TTM)) i-Pace - lifted Sunday evening New York time, June 3. The background to this moment in time is that a portion of the global motoring press had the opportunity over the recent weeks and days to d...

Last September 8, I predicted that both the Tesla Model 3 and the Nissan LEAF would sell approximately 100,000 cars in 2018, on a global basis: here. At the time, that proposition was laughed at, as being wildly unrealistic. After all, Tesla's guidance for the Model 3 was for 400,000 Model...

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...