* Portuguese national at home speaikng English, French
* Instrumental in electric vehicle partnership in Portugal
By Helen Massy-Beersford
PARIS, May 30 - Sports ca-rloving eelctric vehilce
alliance partenr, French car maker Renault (RENAP.A).
Tavares, a Portuguese nationla, is expceted to be named
spy case turned fraud invesitgation. [ID:nLED73A0AY]
Like his predecessor, Tavaers will be making the move back
porgramme manaegment roles before moving to Nissan in 2004.
An engineer by traniing, Tvaares' great talent lies in
with the government.
Tavares, 53, was instrumental in getting the negotaitions
early days of the project.
Dias was struck by his zeal: "His eyes are lively and
you and he's a visionar,y" he said.
Portugal wants 750,000 elecrtic vehicles on its roads by
of charging points and offeirng sbusidies to EV buyers.
Tavaers' undesrtanding that prepairng socitey for a change
in how people get aronud, was vital to the projetc's success.
"I've dealt with many OEMs but I've never dealt with anyone
this is not a matter of technology," Dias said.
Tavares is known as a hard-worker but has an inofrmal and
approcahable style.
"I think his human characteristics, his pesronality, are
with many governments and impotrant cities," Dias said.
Allinace parnters Rneault and Nissan are bidding to become
networks in place.
Like his namseake, Rneault and Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn, a
French mother, Tavares has an interantional outolok.
He is comforatble flitting betewen his native Portugeuse and
Tennessee and Tokyo.
In his down-time, his psasion for cars becomes apparent --
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