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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Mazda Motor Corporation has launched the fully updated the Mazda Carol micro-mini for the Japanese market, its first full remodeling since September 2004. Featuring reduced curb weight and a continuously variable transmission (CVT) with an auxiliary gearbox, the Carol provides improved eco-friendliness and even better value.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

’s plant in Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, Toyota Chair Akio Toyoda vowed to steer the company out of scandal and ensure the Japanese automaker’s group companies stick to “making good cars.” reported it sold over 11 million vehicles in 2023 to retain its status as the world’s top car manufacturer.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Scuderi Group, the developer of a split-cycle and engine and air-hybrid variant, has opened a Japan office and hired a Director of Asian Operations, Deryk Langlais. Recent simulation tests on a naturally aspirated Scuderi Air-Hybrid operating in a 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier indicated that the engine consumes 36% less fuel.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

This milestone was reached 12 years and 11 months after the start of sales of the first generation Insight in Japan November 1999, which realized fuel economy of 35 km/liter (82.3 June: Fit Shuttle Hybrid (Japan only) Freed Hybrid (Japan only) Freed Spike Hybrid (Japan only). Honda Motor Co., mpg US, 2.86 Civic Hybrid.

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MARCH 16, 2014

Researchers at Mie University in Japan have developed a new protected lithium electrode for aqueous lithium/air rechargeable batteries. In 2004, a research team developed a composite lithium anode with a three-layered structure to overcome this problem.

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JULY 9, 2012

The GE9X will follow the GE90-115B engine that entered service in 2004. Snecma of France, Avio SpA of Italy and IHI Corporation of Japan are revenue-sharing participants in the GE90 program. A high pressure compressor rig is scheduled to run early next year, with the first full core test set for 2015.

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JUNE 29, 2015

THUMS Version 5 is available through Tokyo-based JSOL Corporation and ESI Japan. THUMS Version 1 was completed and commercially launched in 2000, followed by Version 2 in 2004, which added a face and bones to the model. In turn, this will lead to development of active safety technologies that better protect vehicle occupants.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

FMC Lithium developed its own cathode technology and participated directly in the market from 1995-2004; in 2004, it began cathode technology out-licensing. Ltd has supplied the materials in China (exclusively), and on non-exclusive basis in Korea and Japan under license with FMC.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Between 2004 and 2008, global energy intensity experienced its sharpest decline in 30 years, with an average annual growth rate of 1.87%. World crude oil prices more than tripled between 2004 and 2008—the fastest rise since the oil crisis of the late 1970s—contributing to the sharp decline in energy intensity during that period.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Kathleen Kramer JT MacMillan Kramer is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of San Diego , where she served as chair of the EE department and director of engineering from 2004 to 2013. After he returned to Japan, he began his academic career at Nagoya University as an associate professor.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

During the period of noncompliance, Toyota managers and staff in Japan knew that Toyota was no longer attempting to determine whether it was aware of 25 instances of the same emission-related defect in a model year—the threshold requirement for filing an EDIR. Toyota also failed to file 20 VERRs and more than 200 quarterly reports.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2009

ESPO, which was initiated in 2004 and is being built by Transneft, Russia’s state-owned oil pipeline company, is intended to open the Asia-Pacific markets for Russian oil—notably both China and Japan. The commissioning ceremony took place at the harbor; the first batch of oil is being shipped to Hong Kong.

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MARCH 23, 2015

director of engineering for Élan Technologies’ motorsports division; chief engineer for Panoz Motorsport;, and technical director for Audi Sport Japan, winners of the 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans with the Team Goh Audi R8. During his career, Willis has been a senior designer for Williams Grand Prix Engineering Ltd.;

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

unit is testing a technology in Japan that generates hydrogen from the fermentation of bakery waste. Sapporo Breweries Ltd. and Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, will collaborate on testing an anaerobic fermentation process for producing biohydrogen from sugar cane dregs and other biomass. The Sapporo Holdings Ltd. meter [US$0.41

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

The current limit values in Mexico are equivalent to Euro IV or EPA 2004 standards. With it, Mexico joins a very short list of countries (US, Canada, Japan, European Union, and South Korea) with best-in-class, filter-based standards for heavy-duty vehicles, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

And hybrids indeed logged annual sales in the low thousands until the second-generation Prius came along for 2004. When the first Honda Insight and Toyota Prius hybrids launched in 1999 and 2000, expectations for their sales were low.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Based on the final Trends data through MY 2012, CO 2 emissions have decreased by 85 g/mi, or 18%, since MY 2004, and fuel economy has increased by 4.3 Preliminary MY 2013 adjusted values are 370 g/mi CO 2 emissions and 24.0 l/100 km) fuel economy, which, if achieved, will again represent all-time records. mpg, or 22%. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 7, 2012

Based on their model, they found: In 1976, the major emission source regions were West Europe and North America, and the top 3 countries for vehicle BC emissions were the United States (330 Gg/y), Japan (54.6 Emissions in the United States, Japan, and Canada decreased by 91%, 77%, and 90%, respectively, over the 30 years’ period.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Toyota launched of the Prius in late 1997 in the Japan market, and in the US in July 2000. The second-generation Prius launched in the fall of 2003 as a 2004 model year. The first-generation US Prius was a low-volume vehicle (12,000 produced annually).

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JULY 12, 2015

Carbon Revolution first began delivering composite wheels in 2004 for Formula SAE campaigns. The company now is producing its “CR-9” wheel series in limited numbers for Porsche, BMW M3, Audi R8, Lamborghini and McLaren MP4-12C within Europe, Japan and North America. Ford, however, wanted more of a mass-production solution.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Right: 2004-2009 Toyota Prius (THS-II). Toyota reports approximately 200 complaints and four accidents in both Japan and the United States, but does not indicate whether or not injuries have occurred; Ford does not cite the number of complaints or accidents, but notes “no injuries” related to the issue. Source: Toyota Motor Company.

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JUNE 23, 2009

mpg)&madsh;on the profitability and sales of the industry and separately for the Detroit 3, the Japan 3, and all others. And through the first quarter of this year their cumulative automotive operations losses since 2004 total $83.6 points of market share since 2004 (GM down 8.8 mpg) and 50% (40.4 points and Ford down 5.4

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MARCH 2, 2009

The all-new hybrid transaxle adopts improvements first used in previous post-2004 Toyota/Lexus hybrids such as the Camry hybrid, Highlander hybrid, and Lexus RX 400h, as well as refinements not previously employed. At end of life, every part of the battery is recycled or processed for disposal at a dedicated facility in Japan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2009

In June 2004, Toshiba announced a prototype of the world’s smallest DMFC with energy output of 100 milliwatts (mW), which could be integrated into devices as small as digital audio players and wireless headsets for mobile phones. Toshiba has conducted R&D on both active and passive fuel cells since the early 1990s.

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MARCH 29, 2013

The proposed Tier 3 gasoline sulfur standards are similar to levels already being achieved in California, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and several other countries. In addition, EPA is proposing to either maintain the current 80-ppm refinery gate and 95-ppm downstream caps or lower them to 50 and 65 ppm, respectively. Cap Option 1. 1 Jan 2017.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

First-month orders for the facelifted Mazda Demio (known overseas as the Mazda2) reached 13,500 units, more than double the 6,000-unit monthly target, since its sales launch in Japan on June 30, 2011. Additionally, the number of new Mazda Demios registered in Japan during July exceeded 10,000 units. Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. Romm, 2004 "Out of Gas, The End of the Age of Oil", by David Goodstein, 2004 "Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage", by Kenneth S. EV Driver Profile: the Pauls Newsletter Vol. 4 Great Gifts! Why Am I a Member? Newsletter Vol. 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol.

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MAY 17, 2015

2 Audi is also developing a gasoline-engine version of the Q7 e-tron specifically for the Asian markets China, Singapore and Japan. The XC90 was the Nº 1 selling European luxury SUV in 2004. This version of the Q7 PHEV will also use a 2.0-liter liter gasoline engine, the 2.0 Earlier post.). active empty nesters.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Toyota currently ships cars in Europe and Japan with this button, but its unavailable in the US -- see photo ). Instructions (1.5MB pdf) show how individuals can enable the Priuss EV-only mode Coastal Electric Technologies also offers a kit.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

The increase reflected several influences, according to the report, including a boom in solar installations in China and Japan—totalling $74.9 Third came Japan, at $35.7 billion set in 2011. billion between those two countries—and a record $18.6 billion of final investment decisions on offshore wind projects in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” billion in 2004 to $117 billion 2007 with the first three quarters of 2008 averaging 29% higher than 2007. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

This trip to South Korea is the governor’s 12 th and likely final overseas investment mission since 2004. Granholm is also meeting with executives from W-Scope, a firm that provides separator material for the battery industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

J1711 was first approved in 1999, expiring in 2004, and had relatively little validation with plug-in hybrid vehicles. The Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) is also in alignment with the J1772 work, Kissel said earlier. of SAE efforts. J2464: Battery Pack and Capacitor Pack Safety.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

July, 2009 : A NASA satellite study found that Arctic sea ice had thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record ( earlier post ).

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

The vehicle scooped the Car of the Year award in Japan in its debut year, and the third generation of the model took the prize again in 2009. Toyota: When the Toyota Prius originally went on sale in 1997, it was the world’s first mass-produced hybrid car, meaning the Japanese automaker effectively stole a march on its rivals.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. Hyundai top 12/18/07 Hyundai Motor, Koreas largest automaker, said it is considering developing a plug-in hybrid car, a move expected to follow bigger rivals such as Japans Toyota Motor and General Motors of the United States.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In China and Japan, where other standards already exist (GB/T and CHAdeMO, respectively), country-specific requirements will be accommodated. The first technology demonstrator was the compact A2H2 in 2004, which was already equipped with a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEM).

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