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Gasoline consumption per capita in 2020 was on par with that in 1965

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Not coincidentally, the first Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for new cars and light trucks became effective with 1978 model-year vehicles. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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Toyota and Tsinghua University extend joint research agreement for 5 years

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Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Tsinghua University have extended their joint research conducted through the Tsinghua University-Toyota Research Center for five more years. The research center was established to realize even closer collaboration.

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JFE Steel and NEDO begin demo testing of ferro coke production at medium-scale; reducing ironmaking energy consumption and CO2 emissions by 10% each

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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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Volvo Car Corporation developing new safety systems with autonomous driving support

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A research project within Volvo Car Corporation in collaboration with the Department of Signals and Systems at Chalmers University of Technology is developing Intersection Support, a system which alerts and automatically brakes for crossing traffic when necessary. In the US 21.5%

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DENSO to begin V2X technology field tests in China

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DENSO Corporation, in collaboration with Tongji University (Shanghai), will begin testing vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technology—collectively, V2X—on public roads in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, China on 15 March. DENSO has been globally researching and developing V2X technology since 2003.

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Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing – ET Auto

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In 2022, Hino Motors , a truck maker that’s also part of the Toyota group, said it had systematically falsified emissions data dating back as far as 2003. The urgent warning Monday covers certain Corolla compact cars and Matrix hatchbacks from the 2003 and 2004 model years, as well as the RAV4 small SUV from 2004 and 2005.

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Paige's AI Diagnostic Tech is Revolutionizing Cancer Diagnosis

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But his desire to understand how the human brain works led him to switch from physics to electrical engineering and ultimately to pursue signal processing at the University of Vermont. Siemens Corporate Technology , in Princeton, N.J., The 2003 conference is where I met leaders in the field," he says.

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