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