Automoto Network

TOKYO — A Tokyo court gave Greg Kelly, a former American executive at Nissan Motor charged with underreporting his boss Carlos Ghosn’s pay, a suspended sentence, but cleared him of most of the charges. The verdict announced Thursday of a 6-month sentence suspended for three years will allow Kelly to return to the U.S. during […] March 04, 2022 at 07:31AM

New car sales were drastically affected in 2020 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but things started to show signs of recovery toward the end of the year before really coming on strong in the early months of 2021. Now there’s an ongoing shortage of microchips causing a great deal of pricing fluctuation and a […] September 30, 2021 at 06:08AM

Nissan and Mitsubishi have announced plans to build an electric kei car together. The yet-unnamed car would mark a major step towards electrification of Japan’s popular supercompact segment. The car will be powered by a 20 kWh battery and will be engineered to cover daily driving duties in a Japanese driving cycle. The car can […] September 07, 2021 at 07:32AM

In this episode of the Autoblog Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Greg Migliore is joined by Road Test Editor Zac Palmer. They discuss recently driven cars: the GMC Yukon XL diesel, Maserati Quattroporte Trofeo and Acura TLX Type-S. After that comes recent Tesla news along with cancelled Mitsubishi Delica registrations in the state of Maine. Finally, the editors […] August 03, 2021 at 06:07AM

PARIS — Renault unveiled a more ambitious strategy for electric vehicles (EVs) on Wednesday, betting on new, affordable versions of its iconic small cars of the past to catch up with Volkswagen in the fast-growing sector. The French carmaker’s Chief Executive Luca de Meo said it would launch 10 new EVs by 2025 and that […] July 01, 2021 at 07:34AM

TOKYO — A world chip scarcity is forcing Nissan and Suzuki to quickly halt manufacturing at some crops in June, sources with direct data of the plans advised Reuters on Friday. Nissan will idle its manufacturing unit in Kyushu, southern Japan, for 3 days on June 24, 25 and 28, whereas making manufacturing changes through […] May 23, 2021 at 07:32AM