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...The technology brings together two systems, according to Andy Marsh, the force’s chief constable. A predictive program uses the information on the databases to assess the risk of a situation....
...Riversimple is now talking to the Welsh government about building a small factory capable of 5,000 units a year — which would make it one-hundredth the size of the UK’s biggest plant, Nissan in Sunderland...
...The optimistic timetable laid out by Mr Ghosn this week for Renault and Nissan was typical....
...The recent Tokyo Motor Show saw a number of unveilings — including a Nissan vehicle that claims to learn its owner’s driving habits and offers an interior that can transform into a living room....
...Nissan contributed €979m to net income — underlining the French company’s reliance on the Japanese group it rescued 15 years ago....
...“The outside are hiring massively engineers from our industry,” says Carlos Ghosn, head of the Renault-Nissan alliance. “Why?...
...Nissan had planned to launch its NV200 petrol taxi — which has a fully electric equivalent — in London, but postponed its final decision when the plans for the low-emission zone were published....
...The chasing pack also includes Aston Martin — in turnround mode under former Nissan executive Andy Palmer — and lower-priced rivals, such as Lotus and Alfa Romeo....
...A prototype launched this year in collaboration with Endesa would allow Nissan cars to feed energy back into the grid....
...He also said that, unlike rivals including General Motors’ Opel unit and the Renault-Nissan alliance, Toyota had had no stoppages at its St Petersburg plant....
...Electric cars such as the BMW i3 and the Nissan Leaf offer practical, if still pricey, alternatives to the internal combustion engine....
...A new generation of electric vehicles is now on the roads, in the form of the BMW i3, the latest Nissan Leaf and the Model S from premium carmaker Tesla....
...Additional reporting by Andy Sharman...
...The sleek, silver luxury saloon had everything one would expect of Nissan’s high-end marque – everything, that is, except wing mirrors....
...Mr Tan cites Andy Grove, Intel’s former CEO and his book Only the Paranoid Survive....
...“We’re making a pledge that we will bring the first autonomous car to market by 2020,” said Andy Palmer, executive vice-president. “2020 is the first time that we will have a car that behaves like the cars...
...He noted that Nissan’s is the most efficient car plant in Europe and one of the most efficient in the world....
...That event, says Andy Palmer, Nissan’s head of product planning, “put a rocket up the industry”. The starting gun had been fired on the race to market....
...Andy Palmer, executive vice-president at Nissan, says: “People like Tesla definitely stimulated the zero-emission market. [It] was really a confirmation that we were on the right track.”...
...The location is significant because Nissan’s Sunderland car plant is striving to be chosen as the European production centre for Nissan’s new electric car, the Leaf, now starting trial production in Japan...
...According to Andy Smith, general manager of Amway UK, “There is a trend now of women selling to each other. It’s a trust thing.”...
...FT: Your colleague, Andy Lack, has recently been quoted as saying that Bloomberg aspires to be the world’s most influential news organization. Is that a fair summary of your ambition?...
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