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Yamaha Motor produces 3 mn Performance Damper since 2004 – ET Auto

Baua Electric

has produced a total of three-million of the Yamaha Performance Damper , an anti-vibration damper for automobiles since its manufacturing began in 2004, the company said. New Delhi: Yamaha Motor Co., This achievement was marked with a function at the Numazu Factory No.2 2 of Yamaha Motor Hydraulic System Co.,

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Satellite method provides insight into ozone-NOx-VOCs sensitivity for different locations

Green Car Congress

Both are represented in the study by a major gas of each type, the VOC formaldehyde and NO 2 , that are measureable from space by the Dutch-Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard NASA’s Aura satellite, launched in 2004.

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US tells owners to stop driving older Nissan vehicles over air bag concerns – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The agency made its announcement after the Japanese automaker issued a warning on Wednesday telling vehicle owners not to drive certain vehicles – the 2002-2006 model year Nissan Sentra, 2002-2004 Nissan Pathfinder and 2002-2003 Infiniti QX4 – that were recalled in 2020 but have not been fixed.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. If we look at the fine print, GM actually introduced a sort-of-a-hybrid vehicle as a 2004 model , though the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid/GMC Sierra Hybrid didn't have regenerative braking.

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2014 Honda Accord Hybrid: Video Road Test

Green Car Reports

Its first two-seat Insight wasn''t close enough to the mainstream--and the first Honda Accord Hybrid in 2004 didn''t post gas-mileage numbers that were all that great. Honda was the first car company to sell a hybrid in the U.S. by a few months, but it hasn''t done nearly as well with its hybrids as Toyota has done with its Prius.

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Cumulative worldwide sales of Honda hybrids passes 1 million units

Green Car Congress

This milestone was reached 12 years and 11 months after the start of sales of the first generation Insight in Japan November 1999, which realized fuel economy of 35 km/liter (82.3 First generation Insight. Second generation Insight. Honda Motor Co., mpg US, 2.86 L/100k m) on the 10?15 Model introduced to the market. Fit Hybrid.

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Will Toyota Prius Hybrid Change Its Shape For 2015?

Green Car Reports

Since the second generation model arrived in the 2004 model year, the aerodynamically-honed one-box shape has always shouted "Prius". So much so that many consider Honda's Insight hybrid to deliberately feature similar styling. Love it or loathe it, everyone can recognize the Toyota Prius.

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