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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. Sanyo has been supplying nickel-metal hydride batteries for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) to Honda and Ford since 2004.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

If we look at the fine print, GM actually introduced a sort-of-a-hybrid vehicle as a 2004 model , though the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid/GMC Sierra Hybrid didn't have regenerative braking. You'll find its derivatives underpinning everything from the Suzuki XL7 to the Wuling Almaz , and it all began with the 2002 Vue.

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Junkyard Find: 2002 Daewoo Nubira SE Sedan

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The next-generation Nubira appeared here with Suzuki Reno badges in 2005. The revised Lanos came back as the 2004 Chevy Aveo. Even the new Leganza returned in 2004, as the Suzuki Verona. We continued to buy new Daewoos after 2002, but they bore the badges of other brands. You'll need to suspend some disbelief here.

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Maruti Suzuki’s hits and misses | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Maruti 800 | 1983-2014 To say the 800 is a legend would be an understatement; it is the cornerstone on which Maruti Suzuki was built. Also see: Maruti Gypsy Electric review: Future-proofing an icon Maruti Swift | 2005-present The hot-looking Swift was instrumental in changing the way buyers perceived Maruti Suzuki in India.

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Junkyard Find: 2009 Suzuki Equator RWD Crew Cab

The Truth About Cars

GM had a good run with various Geo-badged Suzukis, Isuzus and Toyotas , too. The Suzuki Equator seems to be the most puzzling of them all , though, and now my decade-long search has unearthed one in a Denver-area car graveyard. The Equator was a Smyrna-built Nissan Frontier with a slightly different grille and Suzuki badges, period.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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Consumer Reports may not want to talk about it much today, but back in the 80s and the 90s, the magazine ended up costing the United States one of its most affordable, fun, and popular off-roaders ever — the Suzuki Samurai. Better known in other territories as the Suzuki Jimny, the Samurai was introduced in the United States in 1985. .

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Japan researchers propose trilithium niobate as high-energy cathode for Li-ion batteries

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West (2004) “Li + ion conductivity in rock salt-structured nickel-doped Li 3 NbO 4 ” Dalton Trans. 1504901112. Victoria L. McLaren, Caroline A. Kirk, Martha Poisot, Maria Castellanos and Anthony R. 3042-3047 doi: 10.1039/B316396M.

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