Automobile Makes and Models Renault

The Renault Fluence Z.E. and Kangoo Z.E. will go into production in 2011... French car manufacturer, Renault , expects electric vehicles (EVs) to account for 10% of the world market for cars by 2020. The Renault-Nissan Alliance is investing four billion euros (almost Rs 28,000 crore) in its zero-emissions programme and a team of two-thousand people at the two companies is working on new electric vehicles. In order to reiterate its commitment to production-ready EVs , Renault has decided to make some of its EV prototypes available for test drives to accredited attendees of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, later this ... Read Full Story

Long stuck at a red light in India, French automaker Renault has fresh plans to conquer the country's explosively growing car market with a revitalised local partnership deal and a low-cost vehicle. Renault and its Japanese partner Nissan are set to join in 2012 the crowd of manufacturers producing low-cost cars for India in a bid to challenge head-on the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest automobile. "I don?t want Renault and Nissan to be makers of very pretty cars people dream about but can't afford," Carlos Ghosn, who runs the Franco-Japanese car-making alliance Renault Nissan, said in New Delhi last week. "We need an ... Read Full Story

Brandnew entry-level versions of Renault’s Laguna Coupe as well as Megane Competition Tourer have just been launched. Based upon a dCi 150 indication, the Renault Laguna Coupe TomTom has the sat-nav complement, involuntary parking stop as well as chrome-finished core console rightaway enclosed as customary. In further, ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story

Partners Renault and Nissan said on Tuesday they would launch "an ultra low-cost car" in the Indian market in 2012 to take on the Nano, the world's cheapest automobile. Carlos Ghosn, who runs French carmaker Renault and Nissan of Japan, said the vehicle would be made in a tie-up with leading Indian scooter and three-wheeler maker Bajaj Auto. "The ultra low-cost car will come to market in 2012," Ghosn told reporters at the India World Economic Forum. It is aimed at rivalling the world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano, which hit Indian streets earlier this year. The venture is also aimed at improving the ... Read Full Story

Russia's deputy prime minister on Sunday said his government could support French company Renault taking control of troubled carmaker Avtovaz, but will have to find other investors if it declines. "If the Renault-Nissan alliance wishes to increase its participation to the point where it takes control, Russia will not be against it," Igor Shuvalov said in an interview with Russian television station Vesti-24. Should Renault decline, "we will have to go to other potential partners and investors," he said. "The state is shouldering a substantial part of the debt burden by settling social matters linked to employment, but that means that all shareholders -- ... Read Full Story