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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Mazda Motor Corporation announced that cumulative production of the Mazda3 (known as Mazda Axela in Japan) reached four million units on 22 January 2014—ten years and seven months after production of the first-generation model commenced in June 2003. No other Mazda model has reached the milestone as quickly.

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APRIL 1, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Tsinghua University have extended their joint research conducted through the Tsinghua University-Toyota Research Center for five more years. The research center was established to realize even closer collaboration.

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JULY 3, 2013

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that as of the end of June, worldwide cumulative sales of the Prius gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle (generations I, II and III) passed the 3-million mark. The second generation followed in 2003, and the third generation in 2009. ended Aug 2003. TMC launched the Prius in 1997.

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JUNE 23, 2014

JDC) and INPEX Corporation (INPEX) have concluded a contract to support Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation’s (JOGMEC’s) medium and long-term offshore production test of methane hydrate. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., JAPEX), Japan Drilling Co., Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) plans to make vehicle liner material and other interior surfaces from a new bio-PET-based “Ecological Plastic” Bio-PET is polyethylene terephthalate; it consists of 70% terephthalic acid and 30% monoethylene glycol, by weight.

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MARCH 14, 2012

DENSO Corporation, in collaboration with Tongji University (Shanghai), will begin testing vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technology—collectively, V2X—on public roads in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, China on 15 March. DENSO has been globally researching and developing V2X technology since 2003.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

companies associated with China Guodian Corporation, to establish a Chinese joint venture for the commercial cultivation of microalgae. and Penglai Weiyuan Science & Trading Ltd., China Guodian is one of China’s largest power companies with more than 100 power stations.

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MARCH 8, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles have topped the 3-million mark, with more than 3.03 Next came the second-generation Prius in 2003 and the expanded use of TMC’s hybrid system on such vehicles as minivans, SUVs, rear-wheel-drive sedans and hatchbacks. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 22, 2012

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles—passenger car and commercial—topped the 4-million unit mark as of 30 April. Cumulative worldwide sales of TMC hybrids. Click to enlarge. The company reached the 3-million mark with its hybrids in February 2011.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

The project involves more than a dozen major partners, including Mazda Motor Corporation and the Japanese industrial trading giant Itochu Corporation. Itochu is EnerDel’s official sales and marketing partner in Japan, and has been a significant investor in Ener1 since 2003. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Corporation (TMC), held a line-off ceremony to mark the beginning of. After starting production in 2003, it added V6 engines to its lineup in 2005, and, in January 2008, reached a cumulative engine production of one million units. Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama, Inc. four-cylinder engine production. trucks and SUVs.

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

Chevron Corporation has sanctioned development of the Jack/St. Seven exploration and appraisal wells have been successfully and safely drilled at these fields since 2003. Malo project, its first operated project located in the Lower Tertiary trend in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. The Jack and St.

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AUGUST 5, 2011

Japan’s neighbor makes an attractive export base, with low electricity costs, a weak currency, and a top effective corporate tax of 24%, compared with about 40% in Japan. In its report, the Nikkei noted that market for petroleum products in Japan has been in decline since fiscal 2003. Among other Japanese refiners, Cosmo Oil Co.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In Japan, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and JFE Steel Corporation have built a medium-scale ferro coke production facility with a daily production capacity of 300 tons and begun demonstration testing. Subsidies have been granted to JFE Steel Corporation, Kobe Steel, Ltd.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

has received $20 million in fresh investment capital from ITOCHU Corporation, a long-term strategic partner of and current investor in Ener1. ITOCHU, which began its strategic relationship with Ener1 in 2003, purchased 3.2 Large-format lithium-ion battery maker Ener1, Inc. million shares of common stock from Ener1 at a price of $6.18

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MARCH 24, 2020

Toyota Motor Corporation and Hino Motors, Ltd. Toyota and Hino have positioned hydrogen as an important energy source for the future and have worked together on developing technologies and spreading and innovating fuel cell vehicles for over fifteen years since their joint demonstration trials of the fuel cell bus in 2003.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

interest, Chevron Corporation, through its subsidiary Union Oil Company of California, has a 15.6% Chevron Corporation announced the Moccasin discovery in the Lower Tertiary play on Keathley Canyon block 736. —Bob Dudley, BP group chief executive. BP maintains a 60.5% working interest in Mad Dog. BHP Billiton has a 23.9%

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

Hess Corporation will proceed with the development of Tubular Bells, a deepwater oil and gas project operated by Hess in the Gulf of Mexico. Discovered in 2003, Tubular Bells is located approximately 135 miles southeast of New Orleans in the Mississippi Canyon area.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel is partnering with the real estate arm of Japan’s industrial trading giant, ITOCHU Corporation, to develop and produce the advanced battery systems for a residential smart grid energy storage project to be installed in a major apartment building near Tokyo. since 2003. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 10, 2014

Daimler AG and its Chinese partner BAIC Motor Corporation signed an agreement on the localization of further Mercedes-Benz compact car models beyond the GLA-Class at Beijing Benz Automotive Co., BBAC), the production joint venture of Daimler and BAIC Motor.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

Fluor Corporation has committed to making an investment exceeding $30 million in NuScale Power LLC., The initial concept for NuScale’s SMR technology was developed from 2000-2003 at Oregon State University with funding provided by the US Department of Energy. an Oregon-based small modular reactor (SMR) technology company.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In Japan, Mazda Motor Corporation hosted the world premiere of the all-new Mazda3. Having sold over 6 million units since its 2003 debut, the all-new Mazda3 is a global strategic model that has driven Mazda’s growth from both a brand and business perspective. The all-new Mazda3 will be on display at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

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MAY 22, 2017

SAIC General Motors Corporation Limited (SAIC-GM), a joint venture between General Motors Company and SAIC Motor, has upgraded its car coating line at its Jinqiao South plant, which opened in 2003. The plant used to employ a traditional zinc phosphating pretreatment process to handle 300,000 units of passenger vehicles annually.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2012

DENSO introduced electric compressors for hybrid electric vehicles in 2003. In 2005, DENSO introduced an electric compressor, jointly developed with Toyota Industries Corporation, that incorporated an inverter to drive the built-in motor.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Until mid-2005, Runkle was Vice Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Delphi Corporation, where he was the senior executive responsible for deploying lean principles and integrating engineering, manufacturing and purchasing, and for leading major international customer accounts.

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JULY 22, 2010

THINK and ITOCHU Corporation announced an expanded partnership for marketing and distribution of the THINK City electric vehicle (EV) and EV drive system in Asia. ITOCHU has been an equity investor and strategic partner of Ener1 since 2003. Earlier post.).

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MAY 31, 2016

Mazda Motor Corporation announced that the total production volume of the Mazda3 (known as Mazda Axela in Japan) reached five million units at the end of April 2016. The Mazda3 sets a new record for Mazda by achieving the milestone figure in only twelve years and ten months since production of the model commenced in June 2003.

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JULY 6, 2009

Seambiotic was founded in 2003 to grow and process marine microalgae for the nutraceutical and biofuel industries.

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APRIL 18, 2017

Toyota Motor Corporation will send two Mirai fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to China in October 2017 to conduct demonstration tests in the country. Started in 2003, the project has initiated FC bus services in China, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, and India.

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MARCH 13, 2013

The NuScale design was initially developed in 2000 under a DOE-funded research program and demonstrated in a one-third scale electrically heated test facility in Corvallis, OR, starting in 2003.

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APRIL 5, 2011

a subsidiary of Malaysia’s state-controlled power generation, transmission and distribution company Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB), has awarded the turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Alstom and its consortium partner, China Machinery Import and Export Corporation. Tenaga Janamanjung Sdn Bhd.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has issued a subpoena for “all documents relating to Toyota motor vehicle safety and Toyota’s handling of alleged motor vehicle defects and related litigation” in the possession of Dimitrios Biller, who served as the National Managing Counsel for Toyota’s American operation from 2003-2007.

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JUNE 13, 2023

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation are reorganizing their joint research and development (R&D) organization to be able to respond flexibly to the rapidly changing global automotive industry, advance the transition to electrification and accelerate the development of Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. Ecosystem Decline: Historically, the main business risk of declining biodiversity and ecosystem services has been to corporate reputations. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

HPL was spun out from Professor Graetzel’s laboratory at the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) in 2003 and is focused on the development of nano-structured metal oxide energy storage materials and novel electrolytes for use in next generation lithium ion batteries. in South Korea.

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OCTOBER 23, 2009

Toshiba Corporation launched its first direct methanol fuel-cell product: Dynario, an external power source that delivers power to mobile digital consumer products. Toshiba demonstrated the first DMFC for portable PCs in March 2003. Dynario, fuel cartridge and consumer device. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 29, 2009

Wagoner, 56, was named president and CEO in 2000, and assumed the role of chairman in 2003. Kent Kresa, chairman emeritus, Northrop Grumman Corporation, has been named interim non-executive chairman of the board of directors. Kresa became a GM director in 2003. Henderson, 50, was named to his current position in 2008.

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