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COOPERATION & PARTNERSHIPS

The Renault-Nissan Alliance is leading the industry in developing innovative partnerships with governments and energy players around the world to promote electric vehicles.

Working with governments and energy players to launch a breakthrough technology 

The Renault-Nissan Alliance has signed more than 100 partnerships aimed at preparing markets and infrastructures for the mass production of electric vehicles, starting in 2011. 

 

Announcements made in 2008: Israel, Denmark, Kanagawa (Japan), Portugal, Tennessee (USA), EDF (France), Yokohama (Japan), Oregon (USA), Monaco, Sonoma County (USA), EOS (Switzerland).

 

Announcements made in 2009: Greentomatocars (GB), Elektromotive (GB), EWZ (Switzerland), One North East (United Kingdom), San Diego Gas & Electric (USA), Electricity Supply Board (Ireland), Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (China), LeasePlan (NL), Phoenix, Arizona (USA), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee (USA), Hong Kong, Seattle (USA), Raleigh, North Carolina (USA), Singapore, Washington D.C. (USA), A2A (Lombardy, Italy), Netherlands, State Victoria (Australia), RWE (Germany), Vancouver (Canada), Barcelona (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico), GuangDong Province (China), Saitama Prefecture (Japan), Miyazaki Prefecture (Japan), Houston (USA), Guangzhou & Dongfeng (China).

 

Announcements made in 2010: Andalusia (Spain), Reunion Island (France), Ryokan Association (Japan), Hertz (worldwide), Christchurch City Council (New Zealand), Orlando (USA), Houston (USA), Massachusetts (USA), Avis (worldwide), ChaDeMo Association (Japan), Wuhan (China), Castilla y Leon (Spain), Acciona (Spain), ENEL (Italy), ENDESA (Spain), Madrid (Spain), Ireland, Sao Paulo (Brazil), Milton Keynes (United Kingdom), Mobi-e (Portugal), Sevilla (Spain), Istanbul Enerji (Turkey), Ankara (Turkey), Unibail-Rodamco (Europe), Avis (Europe), Amsterdam (NL), Cordoba (Argentina)., Ireland (Ireland).

 

Announcements made in 2011: E-Laad (NL), Colizen (France), renewal of GDF SUEZ (France), La CREA/EDF/Schneider Electric/ERDF/E.Leclerc (France), Georgia (Georgia), GASKİ Enerji (Turkey), Hertz (Europe), The Mobility House (Austria and Switzerland), Axa (Europe).

Pilot projects 

Since the end of 2010, the Renault-Nissan Alliance has worked closely on a number of pilot projects aimed at evaluating full-scale mobility systems.

 

Examples include:

 

  • the SAVE Project (Seine Aval Véhicules Electrique), in association with EDF, Schneider Electric and other partners in France's Yvelines department,
  • a scheme with German energy provider RWE (North Rhine-Westphalia),
  • another scheme with Italian energy provider A2A (Lombardy),
  • and the VERT Project on the French-administrated Reunion Island (Indian Ocean) which aims at looking at the special case of island communities.