In Japan, they wanted to attract Ilon Mask to investment in Nissan

The investment proposal was received from the former member of the Board of Directors of Tesla Hiro Mizuno, was supported by former Prime Minister Suga with his former assistant Hiroto Izmi, three sources familiar with the question told FT. Several members of the Board of Directors of Nissan are aware of this initiative, Fuentes added.

The group expects Tesla to become a strategic investor in Nissan, since the company’s mask is allegedly interested in buying American factories from a Japanese manufacturer to expand its national production. This is due to the fact that the importation of the necessary parts for the production of Electric vehicles of Tesla can be complicated with the tariffs imported by Donald Trump.

Musk reacted to media reports, but did not clarify if he was interested in investments in Nissan. “The Tesla plant is [самостоятельный] product. The Cybercab production line is not like anything else in the automotive industry, ”he wrote in X in response to a publication with an FT article.

Earlier this month, an agreement to merge the largest Japanese car manufacturers in Honda and Nissan after Toyota. In this sense, in Japan they fear that Nissan is “in hostile foreign hands.” Nissan has already been interested in the Taiwanese collector company, iPhone Foxconn and several investment groups, writes FT.

Neissan’s negotiations stopped due to Honda’s intention to make Nissan with his subsidiary. Now Nissan is open to the association with other market actors, including technological companies to adapt to changes in the industry.

The fact that Nissan and Honda began preliminary negotiations about fusion, in December Financial Times wrote. Then, the companies declared that they are “considering different options for cooperation”, including the association. Shortly before that, Bloomberg said that Nissan would shoot 9 thousand employees worldwide and reduce production by 20% due to the fall in car sales and hardening competition of Chinese companies, as well as Tesla, Ilona Mask