GROUPE RENAULT : ALLIANCE PRESS RELEASE - MAY 27, 2020
27 May 2020 - 4:47PM
GROUPE RENAULT : ALLIANCE PRESS RELEASE - MAY 27, 2020
PRESS RELEASE – Paris, Tokyo, Yokohama: May 27,
2020
ALLIANCE NEW COOPERATION BUSINESS MODEL
TO SUPPORT MEMBER-COMPANY COMPETITIVENESS AND
PROFITABILITY
- Alliance partners to leverage leader-follower scheme to
enhance efficiency and competitiveness in products and
technologies
- Individual members to be reference for the regions
where they have key strengths, acting as a gateway and support
mechanism for partners’ competitiveness
- Alliance continues to benchmark performance in
products, technologies and markets against top industry
standards
Groupe
Renault, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation,
the members of one of the world’s leading automotive alliances,
today announced several initiatives as part of a new cooperation
business model to enhance the competitiveness and profitability of
the three partner companies.
The member companies plan to build on existing
Alliance benefits in areas such as joint purchasing by leveraging
their respective leadership positions and geographic strengths to
support their partners’ business development.
“The Alliance is a unique strategic and
operational partnership in the automotive world and gives us a
strong edge in the ever-changing global automotive landscape,” said
Jean-Dominique Senard, Chairman of the Alliance Operating Board and
Renault. “The new business model will enable the Alliance to bring
out the most of each company’s assets and performing capabilities,
while building on their respective cultures and legacies. The three
companies of the Alliance will cover all vehicle segments and
technologies, across all geographies, for the benefit of every
customer, while increasing their respective competitiveness,
sustainable profitability and social and environmental
responsibility.”
The leaders of the three companies have endorsed
the principles of the leader-follower scheme for vehicles, in which
they will cooperate to:
- push the Alliance’s standardization strategy further, from
platforms to upper bodies;
- per product segment, focus on one mother vehicle (leader car)
and sister vehicles engineered by the leading company, with the
support of the followers’ teams;
- ensure that leader and follower vehicles for each brand are
produced using the most competitive setup, including grouping
production where appropriate; and,
- continue to build on product sharing in light commercial
vehicles, where the leader-follower model is already applied
The leader-follower scheme is expected to
deliver model investment reductions of up to 40% for vehicles fully
under the scheme. Those benefits are expected to come in addition
to conventional synergies that are already delivered today.
The Alliance also endorsed the principle of
naming different parts of the world as “reference regions,” with
each company focusing on its core regions with the aim to be among
the most competitive and to serve as a reference for the others to
enhance their competitiveness.
Under this part of the scheme, Nissan will be
the reference for China, North America and Japan; Renault in
Europe, Russia, South America and North Africa; and Mitsubishi
Motors in ASEAN and Oceania.
With each company becoming a reference company
in respective regions, the opportunities for sharing will increase
to maximize fixed cost sharing, as well as leveraging each
company’s assets.
The companies’ product portfolio updates will
follow the leader-follower scheme, and leader and follower vehicles
will be produced using the most competitive setup. For
instance:
- The renewal of the C-SUV segment post-2025 will be led by
Nissan, while the future renewal of the B-SUV segment in Europe
will be led by Renault.
- In Latin America, the B-product platforms will be rationalized,
evolving from four variants to only one for both Renault and Nissan
products. This platform will be produced in two plants each
producing for both Renault and Nissan.
- In Southeast Asia and Japan, Alliance members will pursue
select opportunities under the same scheme, such as the kei car
collaboration between Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors.
With all of the above taken together, close to
50% of Alliance models will be developed and produced under the
leader-follower scheme by 2025.
In terms of technology efficiency, the Alliance
members will continue their capitalization of existing assets to
ensure that each member company continues to share the investment
in platforms, powertrains and technologies. This sharing has proven
its efficiency in powertrain and platform development and enabled
the successful launch of the CMF-B platform for the Renault Clio
and Nissan Juke, as well as the kei car platform for the Nissan
Dayz and Mitsubishi eK Wagon. The CMF-C/D and CMF-EV platforms will
follow soon.
The leader-follower scheme will be extended from
platforms and powertrains to all key technologies, with leadership
assigned as follows:
- Autonomous driving: Nissan
- Connected-car technologies: Renault to lead Android-based
platform and Nissan in China
- E-body, the core system of the electric-electronic
architecture: Renault
- e-PowerTrain (ePT): CMF-A/B ePT - Renault; CMF-EV ePT –
Nissan
- PHEV for C/D segment: Mitsubishi
This new business model will enable members
companies to bring out the most of their expertise and
competitiveness to reinforce the Alliance as a whole in a radically
changing global automotive environment.
MEDIA CONTACTS
Groupe
RenaultFrederic TexierTel.:
+33.6.10.78.49.20frederic.texier@renault.comwww.groupe.renault.com |
Nissan
Motor Co., Ltd.Lavanya
WadgaonkarTel:+81.80.7484.7691lavanya@mail.nissan.co.jp |
Mitsubishi
MotorsNaoko
KoikeTel:+81.3.6852.2140Media.contact@mitsubishi-motors.com |
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