Nissan Motor Company | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan 00:01:53 1 History 00:02:02 1.1 Beginnings of Datsun brand name from 1914 00:04:14 1.2 Nissan name first used in 1930s 00:05:11 1.3 Nissan Motor organized in 1934 00:06:34 1.4 Nissan's early American connection 00:07:36 1.5 Austin Motor Company relations (1937–1960s) 00:09:35 1.6 100 Day Strike of 1953 00:10:50 1.7 Merger with Prince Motor Company 00:11:29 1.8 Miss Fairlady 00:12:39 1.9 Foreign expansion 00:17:07 1.10 Relationships with other car companies 00:19:30 1.11 Alliance with Renault 00:22:14 1.12 Other alliances and joint ventures 00:23:46 2 Leadership 00:25:13 3 Branding and corporate identity 00:25:23 3.1 Brands 00:26:26 3.2 Corporate identity 00:27:17 4 Products 00:27:25 4.1 Automotive products 00:29:37 4.1.1 Japan 00:33:56 4.2 Trucks 00:35:15 4.2.1 Japan 00:36:21 4.2.2 Second generation 00:37:09 4.2.3 Europe 00:37:37 4.3 Electric vehicles 00:39:23 4.4 Autonomous cars 00:40:35 4.5 Non-automotive products 00:41:13 5 Marketing activities 00:42:08 6 Global sales figures 00:42:17 7 Research and development 00:43:31 8 Manufacturing locations 00:45:59 9 See also 00:46:08 10 Notes and references 00:46:17 11 Bibliography 00:46:37 12 External links Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.9789593389900353 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-D "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 日産自動車株式会社, Hepburn: Nissan Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha), usually shortened to Nissan ( or UK: ; Japanese: [ɲissaɴ]), is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nishi-ku, Yokohama. The company sells its cars under the Nissan, Infiniti, and Datsun brands with in-house performance tuning products labelled Nismo. The company traces its name to the Nissan zaibatsu, now called Nissan Group. Since 1999, Nissan has been part of the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance, a partnership between Nissan of Japan, Mitsubishi Motors of Japan and Renault of France. As of 2013, Renault holds a 43.4% voting stake in Nissan, while Nissan holds a 15% non-voting stake in Renault. From 2009 to 2017 Carlos Ghosn served as CEO of both companies. In February 2017 Ghosn announced he would step down as CEO of Nissan on 1 April 2017, while remaining chairman of the company. On 19 November 2018, Ghosn was fired as chairman following his arrest for years of under-reporting his income to Japanese financial authorities.In 2013, Nissan was the sixth largest automaker in the world, after Toyota, General Motors, Volkswagen Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and Ford. Taken together, the Renault–Nissan Alliance would be the world’s fourth largest automaker. Nissan is the leading Japanese brand in China, Russia and Mexico.In 2014 Nissan was the largest car manufacturer in North America.Nissan is the world's largest electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, with global sales of more than 320,000 all-electric vehicles as of April 2018. The top-selling vehicle of the car-maker's lineup is the Nissan LEAF, an all-electric car and the world's top-selling highway-capable plug-in electric car in history. In January 2018, Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa announced that all Infiniti vehicles launched from 2021 will be hybrid vehicles or all-electric vehicles.