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Honda joins Toyota’s hydrogen engine push

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TOKYO — The Toyota-led push to plug hydrogen combustion as a trail to carbon neutrality has won backing from opponents equivalent to Honda and Suzuki as a gaggle of Eastern minicar and bike makers settingup a unutilized national aim to advertise the era. Honda Motor Co. and Suzuki Motor Corp.

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Sanyo Supplying Li-ion Batteries for Suzuki Swift Plug-in Hybrid

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Sanyo Electric recently announced an agreement with Suzuki Motor to supply lithium-ion battery systems for the Swift Plug-in Hybrid. Suzuki has already announced its intention to start manufacturing the vehicles. The plug-in is powered by a 55 kW, 180 N·m AC synchronous motor and a 2.66 Earlier post.)

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Japanese automobile industry establishes joint Research Association of Automotive Internal Combustion Engines (AICE)

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Eight Japanese automakers and one automobile research institute—Suzuki Motor; Daihatsu Motor; Toyota Motor; Nissan Motor; Fuji Heavy Industries; Honda R&D; Mazda Moto; Mitsubishi Motors; and Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI)—have jointly established the Research Association of Automotive Internal Combustion Engines ( AICE ).

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Agreement reached to standardize swappable batteries for electric motorcycles

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The consortium was established by Honda Motor Co., Suzuki Motor Corporation and Yamaha Motor Co., Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., in April 2019, aimed at increasing the adoption of electric motorcycles in Japan.

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Hybrid hype: types, tech, and the road ahead

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A hybrid vehicle is powered by at least one electric motor and a gasoline engine, and its system recovers energy through regenerative braking. Sometimes the electric motor does all of the work, other times the combustion engine does, and sometimes both work together. As a result, less fuel is burnt, and the fuel economy improves.

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Study of Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing Finds Mixed Performance for Most OEMs, BMW and Toyota as the Clear Leaders

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Hyundai, Honda and—to a certain extent—Nissan and Suzuki, generally create positive Sustainable Value as well. The study also highlights the potential improvement that a car giant like General Motors has in how it could improve its long-term sustainability performance. Click to enlarge. GM achieved a sustainable value of -€9.87

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Target for 50 percent export share: Piyush Goyal tells automakers | Autocar Professional

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Japanese automakers including Suzuki Motor, Nissan and Renault are also setting India as their export base. With our arbitrage on the scale, labour costs, technology skills and managerial talent, there is no reason India doesn’t have at least a 50 percent share of exports in our automobile sector.

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