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Hino to use Cummins engines in MD and HD trucks for North America; shifting resources to Project Z BEV development

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Hino Trucks intends to produce medium- and heavy-duty Hino trucks with Cummins engines for sale in North America. It is now planning to begin low volume production of the BEV models in the fourth quarter of 2022, ramping up to full production by the end of 2023. will be paired with Allison’s 2000 and 3000 Series transmissions.

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Volkswagen Group appoints new heads of Global R&D, Group Design, Group Product and Modular Toolkit Strategy

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Having started his career at Ford, he was Head of Volkswagen Group Research from 2000 to 2003. Mauer studied vehicle design and began his career at Mercedes-Benz in 1986, holding various functions until 2000, including design responsibility for the A-Class, SLK and SL models as well as Smart design.

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Australia has a new cheapest electric car: MG ZS EV now $44,990 drive-away

EV Central

MG has settled the argument over the cheapest new electric car by shaving $2000 from the price of its updated ZS EV. All of our 83 dealerships in Australian are trained to sell and service all our products and. MG, on the other hand, says it will only receive about 2000 ZS EVs by the end of 2022.

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Toyota Europe Q1 hybrid sales up 82.3% for 20% of total sales; Auris Hybrid the leader

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Cumulative sales of Toyota and Lexus full hybrid models in Europe since 2000 reached 544,184 units at the end of March 2013, contributing to some 10% of Toyota’s global full hybrid sales. Despite the challenging sales environment, our results are in-line with the market evolution.

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California Air Resources Board approves 2014 Honda Plug-in Hybrid Accord as first LEV3/SULEV20 vehicle on sale

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The California Air Resources Board has approved the 2014 Honda Plug-in Hybrid Accord as the first car for sale in California that meets ARB’s LEV3/SULEV20 standard—the most stringent smog-emission standard to date. Honda began production of the car that same day. Earlier post.). The full-size sedan model achieves 124 MPGe (1.9

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GKN Driveline Continues Rapid Growth in China; Developing Driveline Systems for EVs and Hybrids for the China Market

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A further 10,000 square-meter, phase-two expansion of the facility will increase annual production capacity to 3,000,000 units. With more than eight years of production experience based on our ‘e-Drive’ technology, we clearly have recognized this as a key area for future growth.

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The 60,000 Volt Question

Plug In Partners

GM Product Chief Bob Lutz is quoted in various newspapers saying he wanted to get prototypes of the Volt ready for road tests next year , and ready for sale in 2010. It took about five years for the Prius, which sells for about $22,000, to reach annual sales of 60,000, Bloomberg reported. according to Audodata Corp.,

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