Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles—passenger car and commercial—topped the 4-million unit mark as of 30 April. The company reached the 3-million mark with its hybrids in February 2011. Cumulative worldwide sales of TMC hybrids. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

has received $20 million in fresh investment capital from ITOCHU Corporation, a long-term strategic partner of and current investor in Ener1. ITOCHU, which began its strategic relationship with Ener1 in 2003, purchased 3.2 Large-format lithium-ion battery maker Ener1, Inc. million shares of common stock from Ener1 at a price of $6.18

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

The project involves more than a dozen major partners, including Mazda Motor Corporation and the Japanese industrial trading giant Itochu Corporation. Charles Gassenheimer, Chairman and CEO of EnerDel parent company Ener1, Inc. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 5, 2011

Japan’s neighbor makes an attractive export base, with low electricity costs, a weak currency, and a top effective corporate tax of 24%, compared with about 40% in Japan. The companies reportedly will form two joint ventures: In petrochemicals, the JX Holdings Inc. unit will form a 50-50 venture with SK Global Chemical Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel is partnering with the real estate arm of Japan’s industrial trading giant, ITOCHU Corporation, to develop and produce the advanced battery systems for a residential smart grid energy storage project to be installed in a major apartment building near Tokyo. since 2003. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

interest, Chevron Corporation, through its subsidiary Union Oil Company of California, has a 15.6% Chevron Corporation announced the Moccasin discovery in the Lower Tertiary play on Keathley Canyon block 736. also with a 43.75% interest, and the co-owner is Samson Offshore Company with 12.5% BP maintains a 60.5%

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MARCH 24, 2020

Toyota Motor Corporation and Hino Motors, Ltd. Toyota and Hino have positioned hydrogen as an important energy source for the future and have worked together on developing technologies and spreading and innovating fuel cell vehicles for over fifteen years since their joint demonstration trials of the fuel cell bus in 2003.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Fluor Corporation has committed to making an investment exceeding $30 million in NuScale Power LLC., an Oregon-based small modular reactor (SMR) technology company. As part of its investment, Fluor has purchased the company’s shares that had previously been in U.S.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In Japan, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and JFE Steel Corporation have built a medium-scale ferro coke production facility with a daily production capacity of 300 tons and begun demonstration testing. Subsidies have been granted to JFE Steel Corporation, Kobe Steel, Ltd.

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JUNE 13, 2023

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation are reorganizing their joint research and development (R&D) organization to be able to respond flexibly to the rapidly changing global automotive industry, advance the transition to electrification and accelerate the development of Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. The report calculated that if companies had to pay for the full environmental costs of their production, they would lose 41 cents for every US$1 in earnings on average. Source: KPMG.

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MAY 22, 2017

SAIC General Motors Corporation Limited (SAIC-GM), a joint venture between General Motors Company and SAIC Motor, has upgraded its car coating line at its Jinqiao South plant, which opened in 2003. The plant used to employ a traditional zinc phosphating pretreatment process to handle 300,000 units of passenger vehicles annually.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The opportunity to build up such an important company with a powertrain pioneer like Peter Hofbauer, and backed by a visionary like Vinod Khosla, was just too good to pass up. At Volkswagen, he spent nine years as head of Advanced Propulsion System Research, followed by nine years as head of Worldwide Powertrain Development.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

THINK and ITOCHU Corporation announced an expanded partnership for marketing and distribution of the THINK City electric vehicle (EV) and EV drive system in Asia. The two companies have been in a cooperative relationship since 2009, through a number of demonstration projects in association with Ener1, Inc. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has issued a subpoena for “all documents relating to Toyota motor vehicle safety and Toyota’s handling of alleged motor vehicle defects and related litigation” in the possession of Dimitrios Biller, who served as the National Managing Counsel for Toyota’s American operation from 2003-2007.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2009

Seambiotic was founded in 2003 to grow and process marine microalgae for the nutraceutical and biofuel industries. The company is currently in transition from the pilot plant stage to large scale industrial algae cultivation and production.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The Dow Chemical Company announced the transfer to Dow of collective assets from HPL (High Power Lithium). Kokam America, a Lee’s Summit, Missouri-based corporation formed in October 2005, has supplied battery sustainment to the US Department of Defense with advanced battery products developed, designed and patented by Kokam Co.,

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APRIL 5, 2011

a subsidiary of Malaysia’s state-controlled power generation, transmission and distribution company Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB), has awarded the turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Alstom and its consortium partner, China Machinery Import and Export Corporation. Tenaga Janamanjung Sdn Bhd.

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MARCH 29, 2009

Wagoner, 56, was named president and CEO in 2000, and assumed the role of chairman in 2003. Kent Kresa, chairman emeritus, Northrop Grumman Corporation, has been named interim non-executive chairman of the board of directors. Kresa became a GM director in 2003. GM is a great company with a storied history.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Toshiba Corporation launched its first direct methanol fuel-cell product: Dynario, an external power source that delivers power to mobile digital consumer products. The company has conducted R&D on both active and passive fuel cells since the early 1990s. Toshiba demonstrated the first DMFC for portable PCs in March 2003.

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DECEMBER 16, 2017

Over the next 12 months, the companies will work together to develop a framework on all phases of the program, including engineering, certification and production. Aerion Corporation was formed in 2003 to introduce a new era of practical and efficient supersonic flight.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

After a liquidation of the company in 2002, Hambitzer revived fortu in the summer of 2003. The company has identified several potential market areas, including vehicle, battery back-up systems for cell phone transmitters, power-generation plants and niche recreational vehicles. Resources. Zinck et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Cumulative worldwide sales of Toyota Motor Corporation hybrids reached 10.05 The Toyota Hybrid System (THS), which was incorporated in the first generation Prius, evolved into THS II in 2003, and was thereafter rolled out in a wide range of Toyota vehicles. million units as of 31 January, scooting past the 10-million unit mark.

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

Mazda Motor Corporation will begin taking pre-orders for the new Mazda Axela sports compact (known outside of Japan as Mazda3) on 10 October 10, 2013 at its dealers throughout Japan. The company expects to sell 3,000 units per month in Japan. Since the launch of the first generation model in 2003, the Axela has sold more than 3.7

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JULY 17, 2018

Findings presented in a new working paper by a team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) suggest that the new generation of supersonic aircraft currently in development by three US-based companies (e.g, earlier post ) are unlikely to comply with existing international environmental standards for subsonic aircraft.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Earlier this year, TOTE Maritime Alaska, a daughter company of TOTE Inc., The two Orca-class ships were originally constructed by NASSCO, part of the General Dynamics Corporation at its San Diego yard and were commissioned in 2003. TOTE ro-ro conversion in the US.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 8, 2011

Put in service during California's Zero Emission Mandate between 1997 and 2003 when about 6000 EVs roamed the streets, these charge stations have continued supplying power to the RAV4 EVs and other electric vehicles saved by Plug In America when it was known as DontCrush.com, a struggle chronicled in the film Who Killed the Electric Car.

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JUNE 25, 2012

Federal-Mogul Corporation has developed a range of zero-copper and low-copper brake pad formulations using a new. The company says it has already secured new customer contracts for the low-copper and zero-copper Eco-Friction brake pads for vehicle platforms in North America and Europe. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2021

In 2018 the company spun off from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. By training its AI to understand the correlations between certain types of tumors and the effectiveness of certain drugs, Grady says, the company hopes to be able to predict treatment regimens for patients. Siemens Corporate Technology , in Princeton, N.J.,

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 2, 2008

But this is a government regulatory agency cohabitating with a group dominated by the regulated corporations, including auto manufacturers, energy providers, and fuel cell technology companies.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Oil companies shut out of electric markets are exploring biofuels and hydrogen as potential markets they could control. Academics awash in government and corporate grants analyse and research biofuels and hydrogen. That which they don't kill (EVs in 2003) they hope to delay (FCVs in 2008). Proven, ready to market.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 30, 2023

Their stated plan involved merging Hino and Fuso into a publicly-traded holding company with equal investments from both Toyota and Daimler Truck Holding AG. Hino fell into trouble in March 2022 with the revelation it had been falsifying emissions and fuel economy data dating as far as 2003.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. MidAmericans David Sokol, BYDs Wang, and company advisor Li Lu flew with Sokol from Detroit to Omaha so that Wang could meet Buffett in person. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US

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JANUARY 20, 2023

Boyea-Robinson helps companies, government agencies, and other organizations meet goals for diversity and equity through her consulting firm, CapEQ. In 2003, she headed to Harvard Business School for an MBA that could give her upward trajectory an extra boost. Oh my God, we can fix this!” she thought. “I

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

Thanks in large part to Mayor "Red Ken" Livingstone, who enacted London's much criticized congestion charge policy in 2003. Corporate and public-sector fleets will get to lease 100 test cars for a pilot period of four years. London could soon replace California as the electric car capital of the world.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

The e:FCEV advances Honda’s emissions goals as the company marches to 100-percent zero emission vehicles (battery electric or fuel cell electric) by 2040. For all operations, the company aims to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Carbon neutrality for all Honda products and corporate activities by 2050. Two (or is it three?)

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 29, 2023

Having worked for car dealerships, manufacturers, an auction house, and an auto finance company, I’m convinced there is no other industry that attracts& such a diverse cast of characters. I also worked with senior executives& of well-respected automobile companies who were total sleazebags. & These are their stories.

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