Bloomberg Surveillance · Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Nissan President and CEO Ashwani Gupta outlines the company's vision for the future of driving, focusing on AI and full autonomy. He aims to integrate autonomous technology into 90% of Nissan's lineup, with the first end-to-end capable vehicle, the Ariya, launching by the end of fiscal year 2027. This initiative is supported by significantly reduced development times, now 30 months.
“This is going to completely evolve. So we're working a lot with AI technology to bring the cars into a full autonomous end to end experience where you simply sit in the car behind the wheel, the car will take over for you.”
“We have shortened our development processes around forty percent. So now we are able of putting new cars on the road in thirty months from the concept moment all the way to the startup production thirty months for a global development car.”
“We want to have the technology applied in as much as ninety as much as ninety percent of our lineup. So that technology is really promisingly, super exciting and it's the future of the automobile.”