Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2012

China-based and -focused CCID Consulting estimates that the China passenger vehicle market will need at least 1.802 million tons of aluminum sheets annually, assuming that aluminum replaces 15% of the steel used in automobile manufacturing by 2015. The sales volume is expected to reach 25.287 million by 2015.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

launched of the all-new Skyline, which will go on sale late February 2014 with an Infiniti badge at Nissan dealers throughout Japan. New Skyline. Click to enlarge. Nissan Motor Co., Nissan first introduced the Skyline in 1957; Skyline is sold overseas as the Infiniti Q50. mpg US , 5.4 l/100km) on JC08 mode.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has launched the Prius α (Prius alpha) in Japan. Concurrent with launch, however, Toyota announced that it forecasts an unavoidable delay in delivery of the Prius α due to the ongoing effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake on production. Earlier post.). km/L (73 mpg US, 3.2

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APRIL 24, 2016

On the eve of the 2016 Beijing International Automobile Exhibition, Toyota announced that it will launch plug-in hybrid versions of the Corolla and Levin—two mass-market models, both of which have conventional hybrid variants—in China during 2018. At present, it is available in models sold in Europe and Japan.

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Plug-in Toyota China Plug 150

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Because they are compatible with virtually all engine technologies, they represent a global growth opportunity, making substantial gains even in the limited-growth markets of the US, Japan and Europe. Regional growth projections. Source: Honeywell Turbo. Click to enlarge. million turbocharged vehicles by 2019.

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JANUARY 16, 2011

’s withdrawal from new-vehicle sales in Europe and Mitsubishi Motors Corp.’s in 2010, with a total of 13,360,599 new units registered throughout the year, according to figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’s Association (ACEA). ’s (7267) sales in the region plunged 25.1% Earlier post.).

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Electric Vehicles India

DECEMBER 29, 2021

BYD J6 in Japan’s first all-electric public transit loop line. announced that they had put 4 BYD J6 electric buses into service on Japan’s first all-electric public transit loop. Liu Xueliang, the General Manager of BYD Asia Pacific Auto Sales Division, said: “In Japan, BYD’s electric buses have travelled approximately 2.4

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2011

Mitsubishi will introduce 8 xEVs by FY 2015. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) plans to introduce eight hybrid (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and battery-powered (BEV) models by fiscal year 2015 in anticipation that demand for low-carbon, fuel-efficient automobiles will expand worldwide. by Jack Rosebro. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Toyota Motor Sales USA and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America for systematic, longstanding violations of Clean Air Act emission-related defect reporting requirements, which require manufacturers to report potential defects and recalls affecting vehicle components designed to control emissions.

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JULY 27, 2015

MMNA) a wholly owned subsidiary of MMC in the United States, is preparing to end production of its sole production model—Outlander Sport—at its Bloomington-Normal, Illinois plant at the end of November 2015. Sales for the first half of the year were up 24.9% from June 2014. over the same period in 2014.

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APRIL 22, 2011

Panasonic currently has an output capacity of 120 million units per month, of which 80-90% are produced in Japan and the rest in China. Panasonic hopes to lift Chinas share to around 50% by 2015, according to the report. billion).

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Li-ion Lithium Ion China Manufacturer 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Global sales of passenger vehicles increased from 75.4 The major driver of increased production and sales are the emerging economies, especially China. Rising sales translate into an ever-expanding global vehicle parc. Automobiles are major contributors to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. million to 78.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2015

Japan-based HORIBA, a leading supplier of automotive test systems, is acquiring the global advanced vehicle engineering, research and product testing business operated by UK-based MIRA. Collectively, the two companies have 140 years of experience in their respective fields, with both celebrating 70 years of operation in 2015/16.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Overall, Honda will introduce more than 10 new and full-model-change Honda models during the 3-year period from 2013 to 2015, and is targeting a doubling of 2011 unit sales in 2015. The engines of all Honda brand vehicles will be renewed by the end of 2015. Production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The New Energy Industrial Technology and Development Organization (NEDO), Japan’s largest public R&D management organization, has selected Nissan Motor Co., and the Japan-based trading company Kanematsu Corporation to analyze electric vehicle use patterns in Northern California.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

Toshiba will support Ford with a new inverter production line at its plant in Mie Prefecture, Japan, which has experience in manufacturing for automotive applications. Toshiba estimates that the global market for inverters for such vehicles will grow from ¥180 billion (US$2.25 billion) in fiscal year 2010 to ¥1.5 trillion (US$18.7

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NOVEMBER 29, 2014

and will accelerate the consolidation of brake system engineering, manufacturing and sales under Advics, which was founded in July 2001 by Aisin Seiki, Denso, Sumitomo Electric, and TMC. Automotive engines are manufactured on consignment from Toyota Motor Corporation and are all used in Toyota-brand automobiles. Combustion chamber.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

The number of new energy vehicles in China has been growing rapidly since 2015; by 2021, the number of new energy vehicles in China reached 7.84 In 2025, pure electric vehicles will become the mainstream products of new sales of vehicles, and the public sector vehicles will be fully electric. million, up 59.3% million by 2025.

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Industrial Industry Electric Vehicles Charging 40

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

Through the E-KIZUNA Project, Honda aims to reduce household CO 2 emissions to half of year 2000 levels by 2015. Household cogeneration unit going on sale. In 2003, Honda began sales of its first compact household cogeneration unit, which combined a gas engine with Honda’s original sine wave inverter power generation technology.

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Honda Gas-Electric Gas Engine 261

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2013

Toyota has stepped up its research, development and production capacity of both NiMH and Li-ion batteries and will use these technologies where appropriate in its expanding focus on electrification of the automobile. Ogiso said verification work on the system will be conducted in Japan, the US and Europe in 2014. —Satoshi Ogiso.

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Plug In Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2007

The first of Toshiba's groundbreaking SCiB packs will ship in March 2008 to an industrial systems market that Toshiba forecasts being worth 100 billion Yen by 2015. Finally, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation is working to promote greater use of electric vehicles, which is the ultimate in environmentally-friendly automobiles.

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Baua Electric

JULY 11, 2023

Mitsumasa Yamagata, president of the Hydrogen Manufacturing unit, stated tapping into trucking will aid Toyota achieve gasoline mobile volumes as majestic as 200,000 business and passenger automobiles in 2030. And this creates a baked-in community to backup passenger automobiles after they come to marketplace. of the overall.

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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. Sales and Marketing. Click to enlarge. mm and weight of 102 g.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) USA unveiled the FT-CH dedicated hybrid concept at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. A century after the invention of the automobile, we must re-invent it with powertrains that significantly reduce or eliminate the use of conventional petroleum fuels. The FT-CH concept.

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Prius Toyota Concept Hybrid 218

Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

President Biden says his EV policies will result in “one million new jobs in the American automobile industry. auto industry jobs could rise by 150,000 by 2030 if battery electric vehicles sales reach 50 percent by 2030 and the vehicle market share of U.S.-assembled Little Japan cast doubts on that number. One million.”.

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