Car industry in crisis Pure-electric vehicles could account for 10 per cent of all new car purchases by 2020, Carlos Ghosn, head of the Renault-Nissan alliance, predicted on Sunday as he unveiled the Leaf, an emissions-free family hatchback the Japanese carmaker is aiming at mass-market buyers.
Mr Ghosn said at Nissan’s new global headquarters in Yokohama, south of Tokyo: “We don’t see the electric car as a niche car. We see it as a mass-market car.”
