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Honda and Nissan announce merger to form world's third largest car company (www.rfi.fr)
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Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to join forces and form the world’s third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes dramatic changes in its transition away from fossil fuels.

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[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably should have put some fans on the battery for the Leaf lol

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If they expanded their lineup to be based on the Leaf EV instead of just leaving it a lil econobox and focusing on their god aweful CVT they may have had been a great early EV competitor. Instead, ownership just kept sucking and sucking the company dry

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

The amount of time they used that awful CVT would make Ford and GM blush

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ya, they really fucked things up. They were so well positioned with their early start if they'd done things better and didn't rest on it.

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

What sucks is that the leaf was a fairly sensible econobox and it was one of the most affordable EVs you could get. All they had to do was build on that!