I've also heard the exact opposite reasoning, that because he is now no longer silenced/required to be politically correct, he can tell the whole story as it transpired. I bet he will get a lot of requests for a scoop. Cor.
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 2:37 PM EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know what it might mean for the future of EVs in Japan or the EU, > but Carlos Ghosn has slipped out of Japan despite being under heavily > guarded house arrest. > > The story reads like something from a B-movie. It was supposedly planned > by > his Lebanese wife. He hid in a musical instrument case (maybe a double > bass > case?) after a private concert in his house in Japan. He flew out of a > small local Japanese airport, and arrived in Istanbul via private plane. > From there he flew to Lebanon, entering with a French passport, even > though > all 3 of his passports had been confiscated in Japan. > > He's now in Beirut and has released a statement in which he said that he > will "no longer be held hostage by a rigged Japanese justice system where > guilt is presumed." Lebanon has no extradition treaty with Japan, so he's > probably safe there. > > Somehow I doubt that he'll be pushing EVs again any time soon, but I guess > one never knows. > > Ghosn was being held in Japan on charges of financial misconduct, > including > under-reporting his income and shifting his own personal financial losses > to > Nissan. Some have suggested that he was "railroaded" because Nissan > executives expected him to try to merge Renault, Nissan, and Mitsubishi. > > Now we'll probably never know what really happened. > > As far as the whole affair's effect on EVs, my guess is that Ghosn's > proposed integration of the Nissan Leaf and Renault Zoe on a common > platfrom > may not transpire after all, or at least will be delayed. In fact the > updated 2020 Zoe is still a separate vehicle. That's just a guess, though. > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20191231/32ab4c1e/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
