Volkswagen wants to be the world’s biggest automaker in the near future, but it will now have to count a new competitor in the mix. The battle for the biggest car manufacturer title looked it would be Toyota vs Volkswagen. But closing 2010 worldwide car sales, the Renault-Nissan group managed to overtake Volkswagen. The French-Japanese alliance jointly sold 7,276,398 vehicles in 2010, up 19.6 percent from 2009. The German group tallied 7.14 million (excluding Scania).

The main car market for the big players is still China, and the division between Renault and Nissan sales is in favour of Nissan, with the Lada brand an up and coming presence, increasing by 37.6 percent. China bought 1.038 million vehicles, mostly Nissan, with the local French market providing just 744,549 sales. We gather Toyota still sits at the top of the car manufacturers list, but we’ve currently got no data to that effect. In any case, it proves that Nissan has been a very good choice of bed fellow for Renault.

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The electric Renault Kangoo BeBop Z.E. will soon be available for test drives open to the public. The electric car born in France wants to reveal to everyone what it’s made of, and it intends to put its best foot forward and show off its best attributes. First and foremost: its self-sufficiency, already at acceptable standards today, but which will improve in the future. The Kangoo BeBop Z.E. is capable of traveling 100 km with just one charge-up, but in the 18 months that separate it from its current state to its marketing, it is forseen to reach up to 160 km.

The Kangoo BeBop Z.E. will be one of the first electric models that Renault-Nissan will put into production in 2011, and it represents a first step in the project towards travel with zero emissions that the well-armoured French-Japanese coupling is starting for the upcoming years. The objective of Renault-Nissan, reaffirmed numerous times, is to conquest this new market right from the beginning.

The little all-capable French car, in particular, was planned keeping in mind three fundamental characteristics of the trademark, that is comfort, space, and safety. These three parameters, the company has affirmed, will remain constant in the advent of electric vehicles.

Renault Kangoo BeBop Z.E.

Continue reading: Renault: test drives open to the public for the new Kangoo BeBop Z.E.

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