page_title: Andy Palmer
section_title: Controversy
hierarchical_section_title: Andy Palmer / Controversy
caption_attribution_description: English: Andy Palmer, Chief Planning Officer and Executive Vice President of en:Nissan at launch of e-NV200 in en:Yokohama, 9 June 2014 - Picture by Bertel Schmitt
context_page_description: Andrew Charles Palmer CMG FIMechE is an English engineer and businessman. He was president and CEO of Aston Martin from 2014 to 2020. In 2017, he was appointed chairman of the productivity and skills commission of the new West Midlands Combined Authority. Palmer was previously the chief planning officer, executive vice-president and member of the executive committee of Nissan Motor Company. Reporting directly to Nissan's president and CEO, Carlos Ghosn, Palmer shared the chief operating officer role with two Nissan executives. Palmer was also chairman of Infiniti, and president of Nissan Motor Light Truck Co, a member of the board of directors of Nissan Investment Company, and of Nissan's joint ventures with India's Ashok Leyland. He has been called an "engineer-turned-marketing guru [with a] raw instinct."
context_section_description: At the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, Palmer said that "it's complete bullshit" to assume that electric vehicles move the CO2 issue to the powerstation. Palmer conceded that EVs could pollute even less if electricity generation would be made greener across the globe.
  In October 2013, Palmer made headlines by calling the Toyota 86 and the jointly developed Subaru BRZ "midlife crisis cars."
  In March 2014, Palmer drew attention after Global NCAP tested a number of India's best-selling cars (including the Tata Nano, Suzuki-Maruti Alto 800, Ford Figo, Volkswagen Polo and Hyundai i10) and found their safety lacking. "I think the people who criticise these cars for not meeting US or European crash standards are living in a dream world," Palmer was quoted by Autocar. "We are talking about cars built to transport people who would otherwise be four or five-up on a motorcycle. These people today can't afford more, and if we fit safety systems we will drive the prices up and they'll choose the motorbike again. A car with a body and individual seats is much safer than a bike." A Nissan car was not among the tested vehicles.
caption: Andy Palmer at e-NV200 launch in Yokohama.
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "1920", "Image ImageLength": "1280", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon EOS 60D", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CC (Windows)", "Image DateTime": "2014:06:09 16:18:04", "Image Artist": "Bertel Schmitt", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image Copyright": "(c) 2013 Bertel Schmitt", "Image ExifOffset": "348", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1470", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4924", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/8000", "EXIF FNumber": "5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Aperture Priority", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "6400", "EXIF SensitivityType": "Recommended Exposure Index", "EXIF RecommendedExposureIndex": "6400", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2014:06:09 10:48:39", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2014:06:09 10:48:39", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "13", "EXIF ApertureValue": "37/8", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "9/2", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Spot", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "50", "EXIF SubSecTime": "61", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "61", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "61", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1856", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1183", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "1344", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "384000/181", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "256000/119", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF CameraOwnerName": "Bertel Schmitt", "EXIF BodySerialNumber": "1460905238", "EXIF LensSpecification": "[18, 200, 0/0, 0/0]", "EXIF LensModel": "EF-S18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS", "EXIF LensSerialNumber": "00004c0ba2"}