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CARB and truck and engine manufacturers announce partnership to meet climate and emission reduction goals

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Daimler Truck North America; Ford Motor Company; General Motors Company; Hino Motors Limited, Inc.; In turn, CARB has agreed to work collaboratively with manufacturers to provide reasonable lead time to meet CARB’s requirements and before imposing new regulations and to support the development of necessary ZEV infrastructure.

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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey to become Toyota’s first European plant to produce plug-in-hybrid vehicles and batteries

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The second-generation Toyota C-HR will be produced at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey (TMMT) in Sakarya—about 150 km east of Istanbul. Toyota is committed to achieving full carbon neutrality in Europe by 2040, and is targeting carbon neutrality in all its manufacturing facilties by 2030.

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Nissan’s Yokohama Plant engine production passes 40 million milestone; motors, solid-state batteries

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Nissan’s Yokohama Plant produced its 40 millionth engine in June. It built its 10 millionth engine in 1976, its 20 millionth in 1986 and its 30 millionth in 1997. A number of engines made by the Yokohama Plant have left their mark in automotive history. Earlier post.)

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SEAT manufacturing automated ventilators with adapted windshield wiper motors

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A team of engineers diligently set about designing several prototypes—13 in all—until the definitive model was produced. The project is taking shape with gears printed at SEAT, gearbox shafts and the adapted motor of a windshield wiper. —Sergio Arreciado from the Process Engineering area of SEAT.

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Electrified Automation awarded £6M to further development of new manufacturing process for electric motors; PIMMS

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million) in government funding to further develop its innovative process for manufacturing electric motors that are more cost-competitive, powerful and efficient than many of the products currently available in the marketplace. As global motor production increases so does the need to find end of life solutions for electric motors.

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Yamaha Motor and ShinMaywa conduct early-stage test flight of small aircraft with 499cc engine

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In continuation of their joint research for a next-generation small aircraft, as announced June last year, Yamaha Motor and ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd. The aircraft tested was an R&D aircraft owned by ShinMaywa, the XU-L (Experimental Utility aircraft - Large type), which was equipped with an existing 499cc engine manufactured by Yamaha Motor.

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Aisin developing ultrahigh-efficiency EV motor with Tohoku Magnet Institute

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Aisin Corporation is developing an ultrahigh-efficiency motor using NANOMET jointly with Tohoku Magnet Institute (TMI), in which Aisin invested in June last year. A prototype was exhibited at the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2023, in Yokohama in May.

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