Nissan has a new lifeguard, in this case Tesla, and has launched for him. The information advanced by the Financial Times This Friday, which points out that Elon Musk’s company could invest in the Japanese, has triggered Nissan’s value in the Tokyo Stock Exchange 9.47%. According to information from the British media, a group of Japanese investors would have prepared a plan for Tesla to become an automobile investor, which. The proposal includes an investor consortium, with the Electric Vehicle manufacturer Tesla as the main protagonist, but also includes the possibility that the electric car manufacturer acquires Nissan plants in the United States in the current context of tariffs that threatens to apply the president Donald Trump.
The group would be led by Hiro Mizuno, former member of the Tesla Council, and has the support of former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, according to the Financial Times. Hours after the information was known, Mizuno denied it in his personal account of the Social Net Nissan.
In case of what is published by the Financial Timesthis could be an oxygen ball for Nissan after. The conversations, which also included Mitsubishi, failed because Nissan refused to be a Honda subsidiary, who intended to buy it. That is, Honda did not raise an equal fusion, according to Nissan.
Honda “proposed to change the integration structure to that of an exchange of actions,” said Nissan CEO, Makoto Uchida, on February 13, when the negotiation failure was made official. Nissan contemplated this possibility, “but finally concluded that he could not accept it,” according to the CEO. The objective of the merger was to “unite forces to compete and be more efficient”, but Honda’s proposal would have turned out that Nissan became “a company in full property” of the first, according to Uchida, who directs a car that He sat down to negotiate in a very weak position.
Nissan, who today has two component plants in Spain, one in Cantabria and another in Ávila, crosses serious financial problems and is immersed in a restructuring that includes the 20% reduction of its global production and the dismissal of some some 9,000 workers until 2026, especially in the US and China. Between April and December, the company reduced its benefits by 98%, to 5,148 million yen (equivalent to about 32.1 million euros at the time the results were known).
Nissan’s actions in the Tokyo Stock . To close its fiscal year, which ends in March, Nissan foresees losses of almost 500 million euros.
