jobs and invested the savings back into 22 car and truck models in three yearsas the alliance gained in heft together renaultnissan rivals toyota motor corp and volkswagen ag in size so did ghosns own reputation he was a regular on the panels of the world economic forum in davos and other international conferences discussing the future of transport and the need to rethink an industry facing massive disruptionthe upheaval comes at a pivotal time for automakers which are preparing for the shift to selfdriving electric cars and facing upstarts from uber technologies inc to alphabet incs waymo that are shaking the industrys decadesold pillarsindispensable leaderghosn was among the first traditional auto bosses to embrace electric vehicles spearheading the rollout of the nissan leaf in 2010 when batterypowered cars were a wildly exotic sight on most roads he predicted that small companies would have a hard time keeping up making scale a vital recipe for survival salvation for the car industry lay in embracing more than just building automobiles ghosn saidyoure going to see clusters of carmakers of tech companies software companies align together in order to bring this offer to the market the executive said in an interview last monththeres no obvious choice to replace ghosn at this point while he moved to pass the baton appointing saikawa at nissan last year and flagging renault chief operating officer thierry bollore as a good candidate to replace him at the french carmaker there is limited management structure for the allianceghosn always put himself in the position of appearing indispensable said jeanlouis sempe from invest securities sa who covers renault from france his departure would bring forward the issue of the longevity and the evolution of the alliance bloomberg published on nov 20 2018 at 0426 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app carlos ghosn nissan motor fraud international ghosn arrest homenewsindustryfate of worlds biggest car alliance hangs on one word ghosn