Carlos Ghosn keeps talking about hybrids

Nissan executives keep talking about the profitability of hybrid cars, yet they keep promoting plans to develop hybrids. Recently Carlos Ghosn told reporters at the opening of a new Nissan design studio in the Tokyo suburb of Atsug, "The hybrid as a technology is a promising technology, we have always said it. Nobody can ignore that hybrids can be one potential solution for mass market car sometime in the future." He further stated, "That is a promising technology that we need to work on, and we need to develop, and we need to be ready in case this technology breaks through and becomes a mass-market technology. Which I think it's still not." (more)