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US tells owners to stop driving older Nissan vehicles over air bag concerns – ET Auto

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The agency made its announcement after the Japanese automaker issued a warning on Wednesday telling vehicle owners not to drive certain vehicles – the 2002-2006 model year Nissan Sentra, 2002-2004 Nissan Pathfinder and 2002-2003 Infiniti QX4 – that were recalled in 2020 but have not been fixed.

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Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing – ET Auto

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In 2022, Hino Motors , a truck maker that’s also part of the Toyota group, said it had systematically falsified emissions data dating back as far as 2003. The urgent warning Monday covers certain Corolla compact cars and Matrix hatchbacks from the 2003 and 2004 model years, as well as the RAV4 small SUV from 2004 and 2005.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track.

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