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Toyota launches Biodiversity & Sustainability Learning Center to complement Biotope project in Thailand

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Toyota has launched the Toyota Biodiversity and Sustainability Learning Center “Cheewa Panavet” at the Toyota Ban Pho Plant in Thailand. The following year, Toyota embarked on the Toyota Biotope Project—the first of its kind in Thailand—to create a habitat of living organisms, born out of manmade efforts, around the plant.

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Mazda to increase production capacity of SKYACTIV transmissions at Hofu Plant

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The initiative involves adding machining and assembly lines to an affiliated company’s building located next to the Nakanoseki district. million vehicles annually by the fiscal year ending March 2016. Operations at the new plant are expected to begin in the first half of the fiscal year ending March 2016.

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UPS to invest more than additional $90M in natural gas vehicles and infrastructure; 6 new CNG stations, 440 vehicles

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UPS plans to build an additional six compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add 390 new CNG tractors and terminal trucks and 50 liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles to its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. In 2016, UPS used more than 61 million gallons of natural gas in its ground fleet, which included 4.6

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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2016 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Recipients. Protection of the spoon-billed sandpiper, an endangered species throughout the Talay Park coastal area in Thailand, as well as the promotion of bird tourism. Hachioji Forest and Village Building Project: Turning a dark forest (evergreen forest) into a bright forest.

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GM to double models with 40 mpg highway or better by 2017; ongoing manufacturing efficiency improvements

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Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. Earlier post.). —2012 Sustainability Report. MWh per vehicle.

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Daimler & Renault-Nissan Alliance expand cooperation to 1-ton pickup trucks

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Nissan is the world’s second-biggest 1-ton pickup truck maker and has been building and selling 1-ton pickups for more than 80 years. The NP300, sold under the name NP300 Navara and NP300 Frontier (depending on the market), was launched in June 2014 and is currently produced in Thailand and Mexico.

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15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024

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Companies release foundation models both to push the state-of-the-art forward and to give developers a foundation on which to build products and services. Since training these models typically requires vast resources, Industry now makes most of them, with academia only putting out a few. Google released the most in 2023.