The tripartite alliance is over Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi go it alone, but continue to cooperate on “joint projects”. Here’s what happened meeting of the Council of the Alliance, which gathered this Wednesday, December 6, in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the presence of the presidents of the three brands. We will remind, after more than 20 years of cooperation, Renault and Nissan terminated their joint alliance at the beginning of the year. Renault cut its stake in Nissan from 43% to 15% to join Nippon, which owns 15% of Renault, as well as 34% of Mitsubishi Motors.

from, both partners closed their joint procurement center (RNPO), suspended the exchange of information and officially dissolved the Alliance, which no longer exists from a legal point of view. However, they noted that they want to continue cooperation on other projects “as competitors”. That was the purpose of this meeting on December 6: to outline the contours of their future.

Ampere and Horse are like bread crumbs

First announcement confirming what was announced earlier: Nissan invests 600 million euros in Amperea new division of Renault specializing in electrical technologies, and Mitsubishi 200 million euros. Nissan will also be a client of Horse, another new Renault division that oversees the group’s thermal and hybrid technologies. The Japanese will receive six families of gearboxes and engines and 500,000 parts per year for 12 of its plants.

The third announcement: Nissan will invest in Renault’s circular economy subsidiary (“Future Neutral”), which repairs used vehicles at the Refactory in Flints (78) to bring them back to the market. Great announcements that calm relations between two automotive giants that have been feuding for several years, among others after the Carlos Ghosn case in 2018.

13 new models were jointly developed

And this is not the end: the exchange of platforms and models remains on the agenda. Let’s start with Nissan. In Europe, Renault will provide it with the platform and plant for the future R5 (in Douai), allowing the industrialization of the next (electric) generation Micra. In South America, the Japanese will produce a redesigned Frontier pickup for Renaultin exchange for a small pickup truck supplied by Renault, based on the next Duster Oroch.

Other common models are planned for the A, B and C segments on the continent, but also in India, where two partners have an assembly plant in Chennai. As for Mitsubishi, which already uses two Renault-supplied models in Europe (Colt and ASX), the release of two additional models is planned, including a clone of the new Scénic E-Tech. In general, 13 new models should come from three brandsas well as future trucking partnerships…

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