ILEA000352816: Nissan tests vehicle battery to store solar power

Daihatsu unveils new management policy after testing scandal

TOKYO, Japan, April 8 Kyodo - Daihatsu Motor Co. President Masahiro Inoue attends a press conference in Tokyo on April 8, 2024, as the company releases a new management policy following a scandal over improper safety testing. Daihatsu said its parent company Toyota Motor Corp. will be in charge of development and safety approval for some of the models Daihatsu had handled while it will focus on its mainstay minivehicle business. (Kyodo)

Nissan, Honda eye EV tie-up

TOKYO, Japan, March 15 Kyodo - Nissan Motor Co. President Makoto Uchida (L) and Honda Motor Co. President Toshihiro Mibe attend a press conference on a feasibility study by the automakers for a strategic partnership in electric vehicle production and other advanced technologies in Tokyo on March 15, 2024. (Kyodo)

Daihatsu to stop all vehicle shipments over improper safety testing

TOKYO, Dec. 20 Kyodo - Daihatsu Motor Co. said Wednesday it will stop all shipments at home and abroad after the Toyota Motor Corp. subsidiary found most of its car models were affected by improper vehicle safety tests. The move comes after the minivehicle maker acknowledged earlier this year data-rigging in collision tests for six of its models, including those sold in Thailand and Malaysia. A third-party panel it has set up identified 174 new counts of misconduct across 25 vehicle test items in addition to those already discovered, with the oldest one dating back to 1989, Daihatsu said, adding that it reported the findings to the transport ministry. (Kyodo)

Japan Mobility Show

An all-solid-state battery powered minivan is displayed at Nissan Motor Co.'s booth during a Japan Mobility Show press preview at Tokyo Big Sight event hall in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2023.

Mobile power supply system by Toyota, Honda

Photo taken in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2020, shows Toyota Motor Corp.'s fuel cell bus and Honda R&D Co.'s portable batteries to be mounted on the bus to together constitute a movable power supply system. Electricity supply under this system, whose test operation will begin in September, is meant to target evacuation centers and other facilities that may experience a power shortage due to disasters and other emergencies.

Nissan's new logo

Photo taken July 14, 2020, in Yokohama near Tokyo shows the new Nissan Motor Co. logo on its new electric vehicle Ariya, scheduled to be launched in mid-2021.

Nissan EV Ariya

Photo taken July 14, 2020, in Yokohama near Tokyo shows Nissan Motor Co.'s new electric vehicle Ariya, scheduled to be launched in mid-2021.

The new linear test vehicle unveiled by JR Tokai

The current test vehicle, the L0 Series, is the first commercial version and recorded the world's fastest speed of 603 km/h in 2003. The improved test car shown to the public has a new top shape. In the L0, the front lighting and forward vision camera on the top of the car were moved to the top. Another feature of the L0 is that the gas turbine power generator required for the test line has been eliminated, and only the induction current collection system, which is the target for the commercial specification, is used to supply electricity. We will improve the comfort and energy saving through the demonstration. (March 25, 2020, Kudamatsu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

Resignation by Ghosn lawyer Hironaka

Junichiro Hironaka, seen in this file photo, turned in his resignation as one of the defense lawyers for former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn on Jan. 16, 2020. Facing trial, Ghosn fled to Lebanon from Japan by jumping bail in December 2019 and said he did so to escape the country's "rigged" justice system. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Akira Yoshino, Honorary Fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation, at a press conference at the Japan Press Club.

Akira Yoshino, Honorary Fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, held a press conference at the Japan Press Club in Uchisaiwai-cho, Tokyo. Referring to the content of the lecture he gave before the award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, he expressed his confidence, saying, "I was able to send a reasonable message to the world on environmental issues. He predicted that innovations that combine many technologies will occur in 25 years, saying, "For example, lithium-ion batteries will be installed in automobiles, and by combining artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), we will have a society of cars that is completely unimaginable today. It will be good for the global environment and the burden on individuals will be about one-seventh of what it is now," he said, describing his vision of the future society. (December 20, 2019, Japan Press Club, Uchisaiwai-cho, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

Nissan tests vehicle battery to store solar power

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. demonstrates testing of a new system to store solar power in the same type of lithium-ion batteries used in its Leaf electric vehicle in a bid to use solar energy to recharge its EVs in Yokoyama on July 11, 2011. (Kyodo)

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