World’s leading automotive alliance has announced that its member companies composed of Groupe Renault, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd, and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, recorded an amazing sales increase of 1.4-percent or 10.76 million units sold in 2018, making the group a global leader in terms of volume sales of passenger and light commercial vehicles (LCV).

Leading the chart were Groupe Renault’s sales at 3.2-percent or 3,884,295 units sold; followed by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd at 2.8-percent (or 5,653,683 units sold); and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation 18.3-percent (or 1,218,897 units sold).

Meanwhile, the Alliance group saw a strong demand for light commercial vehicles, with solidly improved sales of the Renault Kangoo, Master and Trafic, the Nissan Navara and Terra, and the Mitsubishi Triton (Strada).

Last year, the Alliance maintained its commitment to zero-emission vehicles. Its leadership in the segment with cumulative sales of 724,905 electric vehicles since 2010 was driven by demand for the Renault ZOE and Nissan LEAF, among other EVs.

ALLIANCE 2022 SIX-YEAR PLAN

Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi is continuing to forecast that annual synergies will exceed €10 billion (P596-Billion) by the end of 2022. The group will also increase commonality, targeting nine million units based on four common platforms. The plan will also extend the use of common powertrains to 75-percent of total sales. Further, 12 new zero-emission EVs will be launched during the plan, and 40 vehicles will be introduced with different levels of autonomy.