diff --git a/src/west/commands/project.py b/src/west/commands/project.py
index 5d47c2c..3f60049 100644
--- a/src/west/commands/project.py
+++ b/src/west/commands/project.py
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ def _fetch(project):
     if not exists:
         _inf(project, 'Creating repository for (name-and-path)')
         _git_base(project, 'init (abspath)')
-        _git(project, 'remote add origin -- (url)')
+        _git(project, 'remote add -- (remote-name) (url)')
 
     # Fetch the revision specified in the manifest into the manifest-rev branch
 
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ def _fetch(project):
     # when the revision is an annotated tag. ^{commit} type peeling isn't
     # supported for the <src> in a <src>:<dst> refspec, so we have to do it
     # separately.
-    _git(project, fetch_cmd + ' origin -- (revision)')
+    _git(project, fetch_cmd + ' -- (remote-name) (revision)')
     _git(project, 'update-ref (qual-manifest-rev-branch) FETCH_HEAD^{commit}')
 
     if not _ref_ok(project, 'HEAD'):
@@ -753,6 +753,7 @@ def _expand_shorthands(project, s):
             .replace('(name-and-path)',
                      '{} ({})'.format(
                          project.name, os.path.join(project.path, ""))) \
+            .replace('(remote-name)', project.remote.name) \
             .replace('(url)', project.url) \
             .replace('(path)', project.path) \
             .replace('(abspath)', project.abspath) \