CarlosGhosn

We’re going to compete! We completely dominated F1 for five years, while Mercedes just won last year’s championship. When you compete, you won’t always win. From time to time you accept that you lose, and loss is at the base of revival of performance.

From time to time on a specific technology, companies can benefit from marketing/information halo. If you asked people today, what's the best-selling electric car, many will say the Tesla. But really, it's the Nissan LEAF -- by far. Because of Tesla's marketing strategy, it's more visible to the public. They appear to be the leaders.

The Google car is more of a driverless car than an autonomous car. It would serve more of an economic purpose. Consider, for example, if Uber was able to drive their cars without drivers. There would be an economic purpose.

We are much more involved in autonomous drive. The driver is still in the car, but we want to make sure to make the driving experience is less stressful. We're giving more power to the driver, to make the driving experience more pleasant.

Norway has, relative to the size of its market, the largest penetration of zero emissions vehicles. We're very happy that the Leaf for Nissan and the Zoe for Renault are becoming very popular in Norway.

That was a really good question then and still is and gets back to something I said earlier about the difference between autonomous drive vehicles, in which the driver remains in control, and self-driving cars, in which a driver is not even required.

The focus of our R&D right now is on autonomous drive vehicles that enhance the driving experience, by giving the driver the option of letting the car handle some functions and by improving the car’s ability to avoid accidents. That technology exists already and will be rolled out in phases over the next several years.

We are not dismissive of self-driving vehicles, but the reality is the timeline for them is much further out into the future.

My first car was a used, cheap, discounted Fiat. It was the only car I could afford as a student in Paris.