Japanese businesses may develop green cars in RI: Minister

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 03/25/2010 8:41 PM

Four Japanese automotive companies claimed they were ready to develop cheap, green cars in Indonesia, Industry Minister MS Hidayat said Thursday.

“The four automotive firms are Daihatsu, Toyota, Suzuki and Nissan,” Hidayat said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com. “I challenged them.”

He added that Nissan Motor Indonesia president director Takayuki Kimura, who had met him on Thursday, had expressed his interest in building a cheap, green car.

The prices of these vehicles are expected to range between Rp 70 million and 80 million per unit, he said.