Automotive Financial Group Automotive Financial Group Automotive Financial Group (normally styled as AFG) was a British company specialising in automotive retailing, and the sale of associated products and services. The company was founded by the Austro Hungarian businessman Octav Botnar, as an extension of his successful Nissan import and distribution company "Nissan UK". Botnar had successfully built up a successful business since 1970, importing and marketing cars of the Datsun/Nissan within Britain, eventually attaining a 6% overall market share by 1980, to the point where the United Kingdom was the only export market where Nissan outsold its arch rival Toyota. Botnar had achieved
Automotive Energy Supply Corporation Automotive Energy Supply Corporation Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC) is a manufacturer of lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles established 2007 as a joint venture between Nissan, NEC and TOKIN Corporation. In 2007 NEC Corporation, Nissan Motor Company, and NEC Tokin agreed to establish a lithium-ion battery company focused on development to production of batteries for electric vehicles; in 2008 the company was established with a capital of ¥1.5 billion ($14.3million) with a 51:42:7 Nissan:NEC:NEC TOKIN shareholding; the business was to establish a manufacturing site at Nissan's facility in Zama, Kanagawa c.2009, with an initial capacity of 13,000 units per