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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Toyota Motor Corporation has introduced a new taxi vehicle for Japan, the “JPN Taxi.” The new model is now available at Toyota and Toyopet dealers nationwide. This is achieved in part due to the car’s styling as well as the body’s deep indigo (koiai) tone, a traditional color that has long been a symbol of Japan.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2012

American Suzuki Motor Corporation (ASMC) has received court approval for Debtor-In-Possession (DIP) financing. As a result, the Company will be able to borrow up to $50 million for operations and up to $50 million for purchases of inventory from Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2010

Nissan Motor Co., announced the beginning of the pre-order process for the battery-electric LEAF in Japan, as well a starting price of ¥3.76 Nissan aims to sell 6,000 units in Japan in fiscal year 2010. MMC has been selling the i-MiEV mainly to corporations since July 2009. million (US$40,500). million (US$32,200).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has begun taking orders through Toyota dealers around Japan for the Prius PHV (plug-in hybrid). TMC will launch the vehicle in Japan on 30 January 2012. Maximum motor output. Maximum motor torque. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) Plug-in Hybrid System Specifications.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2018

The future of just-in-time vehicle services and support has arrived in Japan in the form of two well-known Toyota vehicles—the Crown, the volume nameplate’s flagship passenger vehicle—and the Corolla Sport—the all-new hatchback version of the Corolla—launched just this year. e-Care Health Check Report.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Daihatsu Motor Co., the minivehicle specialist in the Toyota Group, will supply minivehicles to Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) on an OEM basis for sale in Japan. Recently in Japan, minivehicle sales have been increasing and TMC customers have been asking for minivehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Toyota Chemical Engineering Co., Previously, nickel-metal-hydride batteries recovered by car dealers and vehicle dismantling businesses were subjected to reduction treatment, and scrap containing nickel was recycled as a raw material for stainless-steel manufacturing. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced a recall related to the software program that controls the antilock braking system (ABS) in current-model Prius, the Prius Plug-in Hybrid, Sai and HS250h sold in Japan. Worldwide, Toyota has sold about 400,000 of the hybrid vehicles subject to the recall announced in Japan.

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Prius Japan Plug-in Toyota 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2013

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) had developed and will launch in Japan the “Big Data Traffic Information Service”, a new traffic-information service utilizing “big data” including vehicle locations and speeds, road conditions, and other parameters collected and stored via telematics services. Click to enlarge.

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Electric Vehicles India

JANUARY 26, 2023

lakh crore by the end of the decade, targeting 50 percent carbon-neutral technologies Suzuki Motor Corporation has pledged to invest JPY 4.5 With a focus on Japan, India, and Europe, Suzuki will contribute to a decarbonized society and economic growth in emerging markets such as India, ASEAN, and Africa. trillion (Rs 2.82

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Teslarati

JUNE 16, 2021

General Motors has increased its electric vehicle investment by 75%, from $20 billion to $35 billion through 2025, the company announced on Wednesday. Cruise also was recently selected as the exclusive provider of AV rideshare services to the city of Dubai and is working with Honda to begin development of an AV testing program in Japan.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 30, 2021

Nissan Motor Co., today announced that it plans to start sales of an all-new, all-electric minivehicle in Japan in early FY2022. The vehicle is part of a joint project with Mitsubishi Motors Corporation and is being planned and developed by NMKV Co., Nissan to launch all-electric minivehicle in FY2022 .

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All-Electric Nissan Japan Electric 84

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Toyota Motor Corporation announced a limited launch of the C+pod ultra-compact battery electric vehicle (BEV) to corporate users, local governments and other organizations that have been exploring new options to drive the popularization of BEVs. kW motor (9.2 and TEPCO Energy Partner, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2010

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will begin sales in Japan on 30 August of an onboard device designed to alert pedestrians and others audibly to the presence of a quiet vehicle, such as a gasoline-electric hybrid.

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Prius Toyota Vehicles Gasoline-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Of those EVs, Japan-based Nissan has sold a cumulative 148,700 units worldwide since December 2010, when Nissan LEAF went on sale. The top markets for Nissan LEAF are the United States with about 67,000 sales since its launch; Japan with about 46,500 units; and Europe with about 31,000 units. under the Renault Samsung Motor badge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2011

Mazda Motor Corporation has become the world’s first automaker—according to Mazda’s data as of 22 August—successfully to recycle scrapped bumpers from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) into raw material for new vehicle bumpers.

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Mazda Vehicles Minivan Corporation 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

General Motors will increase its EV and AV investments from 2020 through 2025 to $35 billion, representing a 75% increase from its initial commitment announced prior to the pandemic. Separately, GM will supply HYDROTEC to Navistar, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

The United States has filed and simultaneously settled a civil lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor North America Inc., Repeatedly, Toyota managers and staff in Japan identified the discrepancy between Toyota’s procedures and the language of the federal requirements but failed to bring Toyota into compliance.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

Toyota Motor Corporation will partner with five Japanese power companies—Tohoku Electric Power Co., TEPCO Energy Partner, Inc.; Chubu Electric Power Co., Kansai Electric Power Co., and Shikoku Electric Power Company, Inc. to offer the new PHV Connected Power Service.

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Prius Connect Connected Power 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

As part of what has become a global recall of the third-generation Prius, Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA Inc, will conduct a voluntary safety recall on approximately 133,000 2010 Model Year Prius vehicles and 14,500 Lexus Division 2010 HS 250h vehicles to update software in the vehicle’s anti-lock brake system (ABS). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2013

Starting this April, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will sell an electricity management system that uses recycled nickel-metal hydride batteries from hybrid vehicles to Toyota vehicle dealers throughout Japan. The 10 kWh systems will be sold via TMC’s energy business company, Toyota Turbine and Systems Inc.,

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Nickel Metal Hydride Toyota Dealers NiMH 308

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

With the release of its third-quarter fiscal year results, Nissan Motor Co., In March 2008, company and dealer inventory was 630,000 units; that level will be reduced by 20%, to 480,000, by March 2009. forecast an operating loss of ¥180 billion (US $1.9 billion and a net loss of ¥265 billion (US $2.58

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Green Car Congress

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. Diesel Engines Hybrids Japan' Axela Hybrid. Earlier post.)

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Electric Vehicles India

MARCH 30, 2023

There has been an exciting breakthrough developed by Suzuki Motor Corporation in the field of electric motorcycles: the e-Burgman. Burgman’s electric scooter is part of a larger effort to promote battery sharing and increase e2W use in Japan. It is powered by a synchronous AC motor and a lithium-ion battery.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

The Chevrolet Volt was a purpose-built plug-in hybrid, with an electric motor driving the car and a small gas engine that charged the small battery when it was depleted. GM’s signature EV now is the Chevrolet Bolt EV , another new name, which arrived as a 2017 model and promptly won Motor Trend ’s Car of the Year award.

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Market Motorcycles Saturn Prius 69

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

In addition to the vehicle’s introduction in Japan, Toyota launched the Mirai—a four-door, mid-size fuel cell sedan with performance that fully competes with traditional internal combustion engines—in Los Angeles on the eve of the Los Angeles Auto Show. —Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corporation President/CEO.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2011

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will offer the i-MiEV electric vehicle in two trim levels in Japan. The company currently offers, as a dealer-fitted option, the AC Power Supply EZ adaptor that allows i-MiEV’s batteries to be used to power domestic electrical appliances up to a rating of 100W. The new i-MiEV M.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

Carbon neutrality for all Honda products and corporate activities by 2050. kW electric motor powered by electricity from its hydrogen fuel cell (fed by up to 4.3 A fairly conventional look Through a chemical process, the fuel cell uses hydrogen and oxygen to create electricity to power the motor and charge the lithium-ion battery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and TMC’s customer-service IT company Toyota Media Service have co-developed a charger for electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs). the charger, called G-Station, are planned to start in Japan through Toyota. Corporation. The G-Station system. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2009

Mazda Motor Corporation has developed a world-first recycling technology which enhances the process it uses to recycle used bumpers from vehicles whose useful life has ended into raw plastic resin for use in new vehicle bumpers. Automated bumper recycling process. Click to enlarge.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

YOKOHAMA, Japan — Nissan Motor Co. The vehicles will be made in the United States, Japan and Europe. maker of Subaru cars, began leasing electric cars in Japan. Mitsubishi Motors Corp. – Toyota Motor Corp. – Tesla Motors Inc., Dealers excited. follows later this month.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 23, 2021

Similarly, Volkswagen, Mazda, Tata Motors, Mahindra Electric, MG Motors, Ola Electric, Ather Energy, etc are also making investments and targeting their EV goals. Nissan Motor Co will partners with China-based battery maker Envision AESC group to establish new battery plants for electric vehicles in Japan and United Kingdom.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Establishing dealer network. General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. BYD also developed the motors and software for the system.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"Importing batteries from Japan was very expensive," Wang says. "When I first visited the BYD factory, I was shocked," says Daniel Kim, a Merrill Lynch technology analyst based in Hong Kong, who has been to the fully automated production lines in Japan and Korea. "If we put our staff in Japan or the U.S.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. dealer network. In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations.

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EV Adoption

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

To date, two manufacturers — Tesla and General Motors — saw the tax credit phaseout completely. The credit is not available for Tesla vehicles acquired after December 31, 2019 and General Motors EV purchased after March 31, 2020. Effective Date: Jan 1, 2022. Effective Date: Jan 1, 2022.

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