Does Choice of BMW as 2012 Games' Auto Supplier Set Back Electrification Efforts? The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games was likely thinking more of image than energy when it made its choice, but picking BMW as the preferred automotive supplier for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games and passing on Nissan's offer to supply Leaf electric cars isn't sending a particularly clean and green message to the rest of the world, the Japanese automaker says. A report in Britain's Autocar relays the complaint from an unnamed “senior source” at Nissan, who told the magazine that the BMW selection was a step backward for efforts to build an electric vehicle charging infrastructure in London. The Nissan source (”senior” is journalistic code for an executive of some sort) is quoted as saying that Nissan doesn't have an issue with BMW getting the contract but feels the organizing committee has missed out “on a golden opportunity to
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Let the Sniping Begin! Nissan Says London Olympics Committee Snubbed EVs
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