El automotive sector, worldwide, has multiple and varied forms of association between the different companies that form it. There are the companies that decide to walk alone, like Suzuki or Mazda, those that decide merge to create a single industry group under which to protect themselves, in the style of the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) Group and then there are the alliances, like the one formed by Renault and Nissan, and to which Mitsubishi was assigned after becoming the property of the latter.
Until then, with logical agreements, the signature of the three diamonds had walked the world alone. However the economic wear that dragged, drop in sales and the trick he made to standardize his emissions forced him to fall into the hands of Nissan. As a result of all these situations, the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, and thanks to this, the first manufacturer in the world ahead of the Volkswagen Group and Toyota in the past year.
For this reason, to be the largest car manufacturer in the world for many years, was born Alliance Plan 2022. According to Carlos Ghosn, CEO of the Franco-Japanese alliance, this document seeks
«strengthen the performance and growth of their companies, respecting the autonomy and the different strategies of the Renault Group, Nissan Motors and Mitsubishi Motors»
To develop it, several common projects with which the alliance intends to increase its synergies in key aspects such as engineering, component purchasing, manufacturing, after-sales, quality and customer satisfaction or business development. To this end, several project managers with which to strengthen these areas, looking for points of convergence and minimizing those aspects in which they do not coincide.
El Alliance Plan 2022 should result in the production of up to nine million units using only four common platforms together with the use of up to three quarters of shared engines. In addition, they must reach the market until twelve new electric models that must be developed on various common architectures, created specifically for them, and finally, there are the 40 models that must arrive with different levels of autonomy.
The development of this plan will begin with the integration of Renault and Nissan In the first moment. In the case of Mitsubishi its arrival will take place gradually, arriving in April of this year in the areas of component purchase, business development and quality and customer satisfaction. Already, in 2019, the engineering, manufacturing, logistics and after-sales areas will arrive.
Source – Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance