Shortage of semiconductors, sale of its assets in Russia … Renault wants to put the worries in the back

The worst is never certain… At the end of a nightmarish 2020, the Renault group, accounts weighed down by the pandemic, would not have imagined that it would have to manage, in series, supply disruptions and closures of factories in 2021, then the sale of its assets in Russia in 2022 for… a symbolic rouble! Add to that delicate relations with SBA, its main distributor in the Middle East, one of the consequences of the Ghosn affair, and the threat of a collective complaint in the “Motorgate” file, and you have a manufacturer ” with a vital prognosis”, confides, cruelly, the French boss of a competing foreign brand.