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Toyota Prius V hybrid wagon ends U.S. run; RAV4 Hybrid took its sales

Green Car Reports

and Puerto Rico. The reason is simple: Its sales have fallen considerably since the 2016 launch of the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid compact. After six model years, the 2017 Toyota Prius V will soon leave the stage, and there will be no 2018 version.

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Safety Institute: auto manufacturers fail to meet NHTSA deadline for replacement airbags

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A study of Vehicle Owner Questionnaires from April through July 2016 shows that the agency has received 155 complaints from consumers with vehicles registered in hot and humid states, who attempted to have their recalled driver and passenger-side airbags repaired, only to be turned away by dealers for lack of parts.

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Preliminary approval of VW 2.0L TDI settlement program in US

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Volkswagen will begin the settlement program immediately after the Court grants final approval to the class settlement, which is anticipated on 18 October 2016. Volkswagen has also resolved current and potential consumer protection claims of 44 US states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. TDI vehicles.

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IMO sets 2020 date for ships to comply with low sulfur fuel oil requirement; 5000 ppm

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That review was completed in 2016 and submitted to MEPC 70. When those amendments were adopted, it was also agreed that a review should be undertaken by 2018 in order to assess whether sufficient compliant fuel oil would be available to meet the 2020 date. If not, the date could be deferred to 2025.

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What are the investment opportunities in the Alternative Fuel Corridor Program?

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The sixth round of Alternative Fuel Corridors resulted in adding more new miles of corridors than any other round since the program’s initiation in 2016. Alternative Fuel Corridor designations are now found in all 50 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico. Impacts and Benefits to Existing Fuel Retailers.

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Detect Quakes With “Raspberry Shakes”

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Actually, a whole community of (mostly) amateur seismologists had, using a Raspberry Pi–based device called a Raspberry Shake , developed in 2016 by a group in tectonically active Panama. The farthest one from Panama that registered a good signal was in Puerto Rico. Since that time, a larger (magnitude 6.2)

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Volkswagen AG agrees to plead guilty and pay $4.3B in criminal and civil penalties; 6 execs and employees indicted

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Starting with the first model year 2009 of VW’s new “clean diesel” engine through model year 2016, Dorenkamp, Neusser, Hadler and their co-conspirators installed, or caused to be installed, the defeat device software into the vehicles imported and sold in the United States. Other agreements in the US. TDI vehicles in the United States.