Nissan has become the latest automaker to establish a research facility in California's Silicon Valley. The facility will be responsible for IT, advanced engineering research, and technology recruitment.
Both Nissan and Renault will use the new facility, which is located directly across from Google's headquarters in Mountain View. The automaker says that facility is ideally located and will capitalize on the region's world-class engineering talent. Researchers at this location will also be able to stay ahead of trends that are reshaping the way people interact with their cars.
Created in 1999, the Renault-Nissan Alliance is a unique partnership between two of the largest automakers in Europe and Japan. Renault and Nissan, which together employ more than 350,000 workers, sold 7.2 million cars in 2010 – about one in 10 cars worldwide. The new research office is just one of many ways the two automakers are collaborating to produce new automotive technologies.
"The Alliance is at the vanguard of the auto industry's shift to sustainable transportation. Having a greater footprint in one of the world's headquarters for clean tech research will extend our lead further," said Carlos Ghosn, CEO and Chairman of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, who recently gave a talk at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). Ghosn's "Clean Cars" presentation at Stanford focused on how and why zero-emission technologies are leading to unprecedented opportunities in the auto industry and economy.
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