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Retro Styling Kit Appears for the Toyota Tacoma

The Truth About Cars

If you’ve always wanted your last-gen Toyota Tacoma to look like a Land Cruiser from the 1980s, a company based in Japan has just the solution for you. The new kit is made solely for the American market, which makes sense since the Tacoma can be in short supply in Japan compared to Jacksonville.

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2017 Nissan Leaf 'EVness,' Tesla In Japan, Triple-Turbo Volvo Engine: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Designers consider whether less "EVness" will make the 2017 Nissan Leaf more appealing, Tesla Motors sets up shop in Japan, and Chinese-Swedish carmaker Volvo unveils a prototype engine that makes 450 horsepower from just 2.0 A new aftermarket body kit.' All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Nissan unveils its first NISMO EV, coming this spring

Baua Electric

It’s a more powerful, sporty, and body kit-clad version of the company’s only modern BEV offering and, for now, it will be limited to sale in the Japanese market. There’s no word if the Ariya NISMO will be sold in the US or other markets globally, or how much more it will cost when it goes on sale in Japan this spring.

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Renesas and Cohda collaborating on V2V and V2I communications; V2X reference solution available in 2017

Green Car Congress

Cohda Wireless will demonstrate the jointly-developed V2X reference solution consisting of Renesas’ R-Car W2R and R-Car W2H SoCs combined as a starter kit and Cohda Wireless’ software at the ITS World Congress 2016 taking place 10-14 October in Melbourne, Australia.

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Renesas Electronics introduces V2V and V2I communications solutions

Green Car Congress

Renesas also delivers development starter kits that will enable system developers to immediately start application software development, leading to significant reductions in the development period for V2X systems. To ease these burdens, Renesas delivers V2X kit solutions that combine either the R-Car W1R or R-Car W2R with the R-Car W2H.

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Honda Jazz Hybrid wins Japan Car of the Year

Green Cars News

The new 2014 Honda Fit Hybrid (known as the Jazz Hybrid over here) has been crowned Japan Car of the Year. Benefitting from better kit as standard and increased interior space, the third-generation model also features a new one motor Sport Hybrid i-DCD system which achieves fuel economy of around [.]. Hybrid cars Mitsubishi Honda'

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Suzuki Swift Dzire Electric Car Conversion with Gears

Plug In India

By Atul Gopal We had an opportunity to visit Nothway Motorsports to check out their new electric car conversion kit. For a kitted car to handle well, you also need to understand suspensions. Unlike CNG kits, EV kits dont eat up the boot space. Which means that you can get the kitting done by a good local mechanic.

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