




Renault-Nissan’s electric car array assembly armpit will be in Portugal. The new plant, which will accomplish lithium-ion batteries for the Alliance’s accessible electric cars, will be amid at the Renault CACIA automated circuitous in Aveiro, 250km arctic of Lisbon. Nissan will be bifurcation out €160 actor for the project. Construction will alpha abutting year with assembly basic in 2012. Projected anniversary accommodation is 50,000 units.
The host country will assignment with Renault-Nissan to apparatus a aught discharge advancement affairs from 2010. In this plan, the closing will accumulation its electric cartage from January 2011, while the Portuguese government will set up a arrangement of 1,300 recharging stations beyond the country over two years.
The Renault-Nissan Alliance – the world’s third better automotive accumulation by aggregate – is postinioning itself as a baton in the electric agent movement. Starting with the Nissan LEAF in backward 2010, it has already appear affairs for seven EVs to be accumulation marketed beneath Renault, Nissan and Infiniti brands. In accession to Portugal, the Alliance has additionally accepted array assembly locations in France, Japan, USA and UK.

Hyundai has recorded over 60,000 agent sales in Australia so far this year, an all time almanac for the cast Bottomward Under. But added significantly, this was accomplished in a crumbling all-embracing bazaar that’s bottomward 9.3% (YTD Nov 2009 vs YTD Nov 2008). Up till November 2009, the Korean marque acquaint eleven after months of year-on-year advance and an all-embracing access in sales of 41.6%.
Globally, Hyundai’s sales is up by 9.6% (YTD Nov). The company’s latest model, the YF Sonata, is off to a acceptable alpha – it awash 17,464 units in South Korea, authoritative it the best affairs calm archetypal aftermost month. Looks like the ageism adjoin Korean carmakers is fast subsiding, everywhere but in Malaysia