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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese transport officials raided a Toyota-affiliated plant Tuesday after the company admitted to cheating on engine testing, as Toyota Motor Corp. reported it sold over 11 million vehicles in 2023 to retain its status as the world’s top car manufacturer. In April, a whistleblower exposed that Daihatsu Motor Corp., which makes small cars and is 100% owned by Toyota, had been cheating on its testing for decades. In 2022, Hino Motors, a truck maker that’s also part of the Toyota group, said it had systematically falsified emissions data dating back as far as 2003. But production has been halted on some of the models, including the 10 models affected by the latest cheating. Sato has acknowledged Toyota group companies need better communication and education about the importance of complying with rules.

Persons: Akio Toyoda, ” Toyoda, Toyoda, Sakichi Toyoda, Kiichiro Toyoda, Akio’s, Koji Sato, that’s, Sato, Daisuke Uchida, ” Uchida, “, ” ___ Yuri Kageyama Organizations: TOKYO, Toyota, Toyota Motor Corp, Toyota Industries Corp, Lexus, Volkswagen AG, Reporters, Daihatsu Motor Corp, Hino Motors, Nikkei, Toyota Industries, Cruiser, General Motors Co, Pontiac, Keio University Locations: Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, Nagoya, Tokyo, Europe, East, Africa, Asia, North America, United States, California

☆ Toyota halts shipment of 10 models over diesel engine testing issues
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

A special investigative committee found irregularities during horsepower output testing for the certification of three diesel engine models. Ten models use the affected engines globally, Toyota (TM) said, including the Hiace van, Fortuner SUV, Innova multi-purpose vehicle and Lexus-branded LX500D SUV. The company said it would take measures such as running new engine certification tests in the presence of regulators as needed. The company holds a near 25% stake in Toyota Industries, which is a key Toyota group company. Shares in Toyota Industries sank into negative territory shortly after the news and ended down 4%.

Persons: Koichi Ito Organizations: Toyota, Cruiser, Toyota Industries, Lexus, world’s, Daihatsu, Toyota Motor, Mar Locations: Tokyo, Aichi prefecture

The world’s advanced economies have committed to phasing out coal over the next seven years. But not Japan, which stands alone in insisting it can make coal less damaging to the planet. Nowhere is that more evident than at the nation’s largest coal-fired power plant in Hekinan, a small city in central Japan where 400,000 tons of jet-black piles are spread across a plot the size of 40 soccer fields. Starting next spring, Jera, the company that owns the site, wants to demonstrate that it can blend ammonia — which does not emit carbon dioxide when burned — with coal in its boilers. The use of this new technology is prompting a debate over whether it is better to find cleaner ways of using coal, or to scrap it as soon as possible in favor of renewable energy.

Locations: Japan, Hekinan

☆ Japan's JERA signs ammonia supply MOUs with Yara, CF Industries
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

FILE PHOTO: The logo of JERA Co., Inc., the world's biggest LNG buyer, is displayed at the company office in Tokyo, Japan July 14, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato(Reuters) - Japan’s biggest power generator JERA signed ammonia supply memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with CF Industries of the United States and Norway’s Yara Clean Ammonia Norge AS, as it aims to co-fire ammonia to reduce emissions, it said on Tuesday. Under the MOUs, JERA agreed with Yara and separately with CF Industries to look at the possibility of buying up to 500,000 tonnes of clean ammonia per year for the 20% co-firing operations at the Hekinan Thermal Power Plant Unit 4 in Japan. As part of the agreement, JERA and CF Industries, the world’s top ammonia producer, would study ‘potential supply options, including an equity investment alongside CF Industries to develop a greenfield clean ammonia facility in Louisiana, as well as a supplementary long-term offtake agreement from CF Industries’ Donaldsonville Complex in Louisiana, the U.S. company said separately. Yara and JERA also plan to collaborate on blue ammonia production in the U.S. Gulf and to produce more than 1 million tons per annum, according to a separate statement issued by Yara on Tuesday.

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