Together Renault and Nissan invested €4 billion (US$5.16 billion) in eight electric vehicles over three to four years beginning in 2011. Renault Agriculture became 100% owned by German agricultural equipment manufacturer CLAAS in 2008. Renault Trucks, previously known as Renault Véhicules Industriels, has been part of Volvo since 2001. The French state owns a 15% share of Renault. Renault has various joint ventures, including Oyak-Renault (Turkey), Renault Pars (Iran).

Renault also owns subsidiaries RCI Banque (automotive financing), Renault Retail Group (automotive distribution) and Motrio (automotive parts). Renault has a 43.4% stake with several votes in Nissan of Japan, and a 1.55% stake in Daimler AG of Germany (since 2012, Renault manufactures engines for the Daimler's Mercedes A-Class and B-Class cars ). Headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, the Renault group is made up of the namesake Renault marque and subsidiaries, Alpine, Renault Sport ( Gordini), Automobile Dacia from Romania, Renault Samsung Motors from South Korea, and AvtoVAZ from Russia. By 2017, the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance had become the world's biggest seller of light vehicles.

The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufactured trucks, tractors, tanks, buses/coaches, aircraft and aircraft engines, and autorail vehicles.Īccording to the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles, in 2016 Renault was the ninth biggest automaker in the world by production volume. Groupe Renault ( UK: / ˈ r ɛ n oʊ/ REN-oh, US: / r ə ˈ n ɔː l t, r ə ˈ n oʊ/ rə- NAWLT, rə- NOH, French:, also known as the Renault Group in English legally Renault S.A.) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899.

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