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Toyota & Daimler Merging Hino & Mitsubishi Fuso Truck Brands

The Truth About Cars

On Tuesday, Toyota Motor Corp. Meanwhile, Hino Motors has been wholly owned by Toyota Motor Corp. since 2001 and enjoyed a working partnership with Japan’s largest automaker since the 1960s. Meanwhile, Hino Motors has been wholly owned by Toyota Motor Corp.

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CRC study finds some adverse results from use of mid-level ethanol blends in MY 2001-2009 engines; DOE and ethanol industry say study significantly flawed

Green Car Congress

In response, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Renewable Fuels Association charged that the study was fundamentally flawed. The Sustaining Members of CRC are the American Petroleum Institute (API) and a group of automobile manufacturer members (Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, and Volkswagen).

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Profile: Li-ion Provider Compact Power, Inc. Focusing on the Automotive and Vehicle Markets

Green Car Congress

CPI, established in 2001, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LG Chem of Korea. We want to help the (automotive) customer optimize the solution,we can work in the mode where we are providing the black box, we go one step further and we look at [the consumer] and their requirements whether it’s acceleration, fuel economy, etc.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

model in 2001 by the DOEs Argonne National Lab estimates hybrids reduce greenhouse gases by 22%, and plug-in hybrids by 36% (see table 2). If we optimistically assume the average US fuel economy is 25 miles per gallon, at $3.00 A PHEV with only a 20-mile all-electric range is 62% lower (see printed page 95 in the 2004 study ).

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