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DECEMBER 6, 2012

Led by strong sales of the Ford Focus—the best-selling passenger car in China from August through October—Ford sold 67,505 wholesale vehicles last month, a 56% increase compared to November 2011. Ford’s passenger car joint venture in China, Changan Ford Automobile Ltd. Ford China’s year-to-date sales are now up 18%.

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MAY 18, 2023

Hyundai and Kia have indubitably to pay greater than $200 million to homeowners of as many as 9 million automobiles at the street that dearth engine immobilizers as a part of a class-action lawsuit. Terminating summer season TikTok customers posted how-to movies that revealed a form to simply sizzling twine the automobiles.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC); Honda Motor Co., Mitsubishi Motors Corporation; ULVAC, Inc.; Kanematsu Corporation; Kandenko Co., In March 2011, the CHAdeMO Association announced that it would support the commercial development of the service to promote the spread of quick-charging infrastructure. Kanematsu Corporation.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

and Suzhou Automobile Research Institute at Tsinghua University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, in which the two parties have agreed to promote a cooperative effort regarding the research of future automotive technology. Dispatch of visiting researchers from Nissan to Suzhou Automobile Research Institute. Nissan Motor Co.,

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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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AUGUST 30, 2011

Mazda Motor Corporation will commence local assembly of the Mazda2 in Vietnam in October 2011. liter gasoline engine will be produced at a newly-constructed assembly plant owned by Vina Mazda Automobile Manufacturing Co., Sales of the locally assembled Mazda2 in Vietnam will also begin in October 2011.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Yamaha Motor Co., A part of this collaboration is their joint exhibition of a communications-linked electric commuter concept and an electrically power assisted bicycle concept at the 42 nd Tokyo Motor Show 2011. are collaborating in the development of communications-linked next-generation vehicles.

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JULY 27, 2011

TKM), Toyota Motor Corporation’ (TMC) production and sales subsidiary in India, plans to further increase annual production capacity to meet the rapid growth of India’s automobile market. The Etios (sedan) was launched in December 2010 and the Etios Liva (hatchback) was launched in June 2011.

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MAY 26, 2011

Mazda Motor Corporation announced that cumulative production of the Mazda3 (known in Japan as the Mazda Axela) reached three million units on 26 April 2011, seven years and ten months since production of the first-generation model commenced. The three-millionth Mazda3 was produced at the Hofu Plant.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Usually referenced as a “kill switch,” the device is supposed to be required on every new automobile manufactured after 2025. Modern automobiles are already loaded up with microphones and are capable of transmitting control inputs, positional data, and plenty more back to the manufacturer. The latter seems the more likely option.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

GTMC), Toyota Motor Corporation’s (TMC) vehicle-production and sales company established jointly with Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., 2 opened with production of the Highlander in May 2009, followed by the Camry Hybrid in April 2010 and the E’Z in June 2011. GAC Toyota Motor Co., Production capacity for Line No.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

From January to November 2011, Ford China sold 470,152 wholesale vehicles compared to 438,636 vehicles last year. Sales for Ford-brand vehicles at Changan Ford Mazda Automobile (CFMA), Ford’s passenger vehicle joint venture, are up 6% this year, to 289,870 wholesale vehicles from 274,396 last year.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

Year to date, Ford China has sold 319,882 wholesale units, up 4% from January – July 2011. In July, Changan Ford Mazda Automobile (CFMA), Ford’s passenger car joint venture partner in China, sold 26,306 wholesale Ford-brand cars, up 44% from July last year.

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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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AUGUST 8, 2012

Ford Motor Company’s commercial vehicle investment in China will expand into the heavy truck business through a major acquisition: Jiangling Motors Corporation (JMC)—in which Ford holds a 30% stake—will buy a 100% stake in Taiyuan Changan Heavy Truck Company. JMC sold more than 190,000 vehicles in 2011, bringing in revenue of 17.5

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JUNE 15, 2011

Honda will begin a European demonstration program of the battery-electric EV-neo scooter in conjunction with Barcelona City Council (Spain) beginning in July 2011. Lease sales of the EV-neo started in Japan in April 2011 with Honda expecting to sell approximately 1,000 units in the first year. kW motor and a 0.9

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JANUARY 7, 2013

According to figures released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), in the first eleven months of 2012 Chinese self-developed brands exported 470,000 passenger vehicles in total—with automotive manufacturers on average showing a 30% sales increase over 2011 figures.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

American consumers are strongly influenced by fuel efficiency and the price of gas when purchasing a vehicle, according to a new survey conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of Johnson Controls. This is up 14% from 2011.

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JUNE 7, 2012

Bridgestone Corporation has successfully polymerized high-cis polyisoprene synthetic rubber from Ajinomoto’s bio-isoprene, produced from biomass using a fermentation pathway. Rubber demand has been rising annually in tandem with automobile ownership worldwide, but it is difficult to raise production of natural rubber. Ajinomoto Co.,

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AUGUST 28, 2012

In 2011, FAW Group sold more than 2 million vehicles. China is a huge market for automotive semiconductors and China’s automotive shipments have ranked No. 1 worldwide for three consecutive years. —Jun Li, Deputy Chief Engineer and Director of FAW R&D Center.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) is licensing its GRAS-Di (Genotyping by Random Amplicon Sequencing-Direct) DNA analysis technology that can dramatically accelerate selective breeding to Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Eurofins Genomics K.K., and GeneBay Inc. Earlier post.) Background.

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APRIL 9, 2019

While all van manufacturers respected their specific emission targets in 2017, three car manufacturers (Automobili Lamborghini, Mazda Motor Corporation and Société des Automobiles Alpine), representing together 1.4% Automobiles Peugeot and Automobiles Citroen followed with (105 g CO 2 /km) and (106 g CO 2 /km), respectively.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Toshiba Corporation will expand manufacturing capacity at its plant in Houston, Texas for production of the high-performance drive motors for HEV, PHEV and EV applications. Toshiba will begin construction for the expanded capacity in January 2011 in Houston, Texas, on the site of Toshiba International Corporation.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Separately, Honda said that it is the first—based on its internal research—global mobility company to disclose estimated global CO 2 emissions during customer use of its motorcycles, automobiles and power products. Automobiles. Global average of the amount of CO 2 emitted by Honda products. 2020 Targets (vs. 31 Mar 2001).

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JANUARY 21, 2011

will install a development center for functional electrolytes on its premises, in order to meet the rapidly expanding demand for large lithium-ion batteries used for automobile and energy storage applications in Europe and North America. through UBE Corporation Europe S.A. UBE Chemical Europe S.A. UBE Chemical Europe S.A.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors have expanded their 2011 supply agreement so that Panasonic will now supply nearly 2 billion automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells to Tesla through 31 December 2017 at long-term preferential prices. —Tesla Quarterly Report (10Q) for quarter ending 30 June 2013.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

The report, supported by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, measures the technological nature of today’s auto industry and compares it to other sectors of the economy often viewed as technologically advanced. One study surveyed by the CAR group found auto companies make up one-quarter of the top 20 corporate spenders on R&D globally.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has developed a new intelligent power module (IPM) and transfer molded power module (T-PM) mainly for electric and hybrid vehicle applications. Test samples shipments of four models of the J-Series IPM and two models of the J-Series T-PM will start 21 June 2011.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

Japan-based DENSO Corporation will exhibit for the first time at the 11 th Auto Expo 2012, in New Delhi, India, from 5-11 Jan 2012 as part of an effort to expand its business in the country. Among its exhibits, DENSO will present Resonance 2021, which is a cockpit simulator envisioned for the 2021 automobile. billion.

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JULY 31, 2013

PowerGenix, the developer of high-performance, automotive Nickel-Zinc (NiZn) batteries, has entered into an innovation contract with PSA Peugeot Citroën Automobiles under which PSA will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the use of PowerGenix’s NiZn batteries as a replacement for lead-acid in stop-start vehicles. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 12, 2010

ITOCHU Corporation and JGC Corporation have agreed to participate in large-scale bio-ethanol production and power supply businesses in the Philippines together with other local partners. The newly formed joint venture, Green FUture Innovations, Inc. GFII”), will become a new operating company for the business.

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APRIL 28, 2011

a subsidiary of Daimler North America Corporation, will also be located in Vancouver. car2go was also recently introduced in Hamburg, Germany, and becomes operational in Amsterdam in the Netherlands at the end of 2011. A network of 225 smart “car2go edition” vehicles will be available to Vancouver car2go members as of June 2011.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and the government of Thailand agreed to start joint study for fleet testing of electric vehicles (EV). class compact vehicle that MMC plans to launch in fiscal year 2011. It will produce the “global small” 1.0-1.2L

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JULY 15, 2011

Western Lithium USA Corporation has announced that its 2010 and 2011 drill program has resulted in a significant increase to the project’s resource size. as of 28 June 2011. Western Lithium plans a demonstration plant for the end of 2011. Kings Valley Stage I measured and indicated resources at 0.35% lithium cut-off.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Year to date, Ford China has sold 368,513 wholesale units, up 8% from January - August 2011. Sales of Ford-brand passenger cars at Changan Ford Mazda Automobile (CFMA), Ford’s passenger car joint venture partner in China, reached 33,017 wholesale units in August, up 63% from August 2011. The Ford Edge—now equipped with a 2.0-liter

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MAY 18, 2011

The first of Mazda Motor Corporation’s next-generation SKYACTIV technologies ( earlier post ) to be introduced to the market will be the SKYACTIV-G 1.3 features a high compression ratio (for a regular gasoline mass production automobile engine) of 14.0:1 SKYACTIV-G. Click to enlarge. direct-injection 1.3-liter The SKYACTIV-G 1.3

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Environment Canada released draft regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new vehicles beginning with the 2011 model year. Canada and the US are working towards a common North American approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by introducing aligned and progressively tighter regulatory requirements over the 2011-2016 model years.

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