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Posted on 11/09/2006 12:09:53 PM PST by Red Badger
Toyota Motor Corp. has formed an alliance with Isuzu Motors Ltd., positioning diesel engines as a pillar of next-generation environmental technologies.
Under the alliance announced on Tuesday, Toyota will purchase 100 million common shares of Isuzu for 44 billion yen from Mitsubishi Corp. and Itochu Corp.
It will become Isuzu's third-largest shareholder after the two trading houses. Toyota said its equity stake will be at least 5.9 percent even if other investors convert Isuzu's preferred shares into common stock, which carry voting rights.
Toyota and Isuzu aim to commercialize new small diesel engines in three years.
Isuzu, a major diesel engine producer, will lead the joint project.
The two companies will set up a study team for the project as early as this month.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe said he proposed the tie-up at the end of July.
Toyota has placed gas-electric hybrid vehicles at the center of its environmental strategies.
The company is now targeting diesel engines as another pillar to meet increasingly stricter emissions standards around the world.
"Hybrid is one effective technology, but we have to put more effort into diesels if we consider differences in energy policies of various countries," Watanabe said.
While they are unpopular in Japan and the United States, diesel engines are widely used in European passenger cars.
Under the agreement, Toyota will provide Isuzu with hybrid technologies.
The alliance between Toyota and Isuzu could trigger consolidation among domestic truckmakers.
Isuzu and Hino Motors Ltd., a Toyota subsidiary, are jointly producing buses and cooperating on the supply of parts for commercial vehicles.
Isuzu President Yoshinori Ida said the company will consider strengthening relations with Hino if there are specific proposals.
European truckmakers are leading global realignment, partly to share development costs for next-generation environmental technologies.
Isuzu plans to phase out cooperation with General Motors Corp. in diesel engine development following the alliance with Toyota.
Still, Isuzu will continue to work with GM, long Isuzu's key shareholder, on diesel engine production.
Ida and GM Chairman Richard Wagoner met in Tokyo on Wednesday and agreed to maintain two diesel engine production joint ventures in the United States and Poland.
GM sold its 7.9-percent holding in Isuzu in spring as part of its restructuring.
Mitsubishi, Itochu and Mizuho Corporate Bank purchased the Isuzu shares.(IHT/Asahi: November 9,2006)
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I don't know if I'm ready yet for a diesel Toyota/Isuzu.
will the small diesel engines make the gas/electric hybrid obsolete?
Obsolete? Unnecessary..........
A friend of mine had Isuzu diesels back in the 80s - mostly small pickups. They ran like tops - one of his trucks had over 300,000 miles on it.
This is why the German automakers have no hybrids at the moment. Turbo-diesel engines are much more efficeint fuel burners than gas-hybrids. If it would be possible to combine diesel and hybrid we are talking about the potential for around 50% increase in efficiency which is great.
For those of you worried about particulate pollution there is already a solution which costs only $600 to install that reduces 99.99% of all particulates emitted from a diesel engine.
Why the US hasn't gone full steam ahead on this, I really do not know. I guess the powers that be like to fund the terroists?
I agree with you! I drove a diesel Yaris from toyota and it was peppy, very pollutant free and easy on the gas mileage.
Toyota wants to profit from the Prius first before they sell one of those in the US. Too bad, it's better than Ethanol.
Yes but you can burn biodiesel in a diesel engine and that means growing canola (Rape seed) which is certaily a possibility on a very large scale in the US. It also burns more efficiently.
Actually you can also turn Jatropha into biodiesel and not only is the yield up to 3 times higher than canola, it also grows in semi-arid regions of which there will be more in the mid-West as climate change kicks even to a greater extent.
........I see a diesel fleet of Toyotas / Isuzus on the horizon headed this way.............
Think Diesel Hybrid. Roll that around on the palate. It is much smoother than gasoline hybrid.
Diesel hybrid positively reeks with goodness.
.....Think Diesel Hybrid......
Let's ammend that to Turbo Biodiesel hybrid.
That's the gist of the thread.
sold by GM since 2002
take a whiff
http://www.shadetreemechanic.com/allison_hybrid_drive.htm
I'd love to drive a diesel Avalon that got 40-45 mpg's.
I bought one of those Dodge sprinter vans for my business. It is made by mercedes and rebadged in the US. I live in So. Cal. and drove from Yosemite valley to Thousand oaks on 3/4 tank and didnt refuel till I got home. 388 miles on about 20 gallons. Turbo deisel.
If you meant why the US hasn't required clean exhaust, they did along with the ULSD requirements. Which is why we have so few diesel vehicles available for the new year.
HYBRID AUTO'S SOON OBSOLETE?
"rev the engine up to 300 RPM and take off"
Las Vegas, NV September 28th ...... In two days, the local manufacture of the OmniValve automobile intake valve, brings to the floor of the SEMA show, what they say "will make hybrid's obsolete" their latest version of the OmniValve. The new design has higher lift and is designed to go the distance 100,000 miles or more.
Hybrid technology uses electricity generated by the engine to do the low speed driving in the city with lots of starts and stops. Electric motors can generate very large amounts of torque efficiently to get your car moving. This is where Internal Combustion engines are the most inefficient. Using this arrangement, hybrid cars today get city mileage greater then they do highway mileage. However with the cost of gasoline in decline so are sales of these hybrid autos. Saving money owning a hybrid, even with $3.00 a gallon gasoline, which was with us just a few months ago, is not a guarantee. The auto itself is much more expensive and the batteries are quite expensive to replace. The life span of the batteries varies but if your not careful you could be buying 3000 dollars worth of batteries after just 3 years of using the car. That is 1000 gallons of gasoline, more then offsetting any fuel savings. So, the hybrids future is unclear at this point, so says OmniValves of Las Vegas.
OmniValves say there is a better solution, if you use there patented intake valve, you can create the low end torque similar to that of an electric motor for your autos city driving needs. This would do away with the need for an electric motor and more importantly the batteries.
An OmniValve V-8 engine can idle at 200 RPM, creating enough torque to run the A/C the Alternator, water pump and the power steering, then just rev the engine up to 300 RPM and take off. This is a significant improvement in low end torque. It is basically unheard of for a cars engine to idle at 200 RPM. For example a hybrid car would normally idle at 700 RPM. OmniValves also say that an auto with their technology generates far less pollution than a hybrid. The amount of, heavy metals like Lead and Zinc that is used in making and running Hybrid's makes it not very environmentally friendly, says OmniValves.
OmniValves say they will save the most precious resource there is ..................... Money! Saving money is the same as saving the environment, according to OmniValves. "While the Hybrid cost is up to $15,000.00 more then a conventional car of the same size and style, the auto that uses the OmniValve is about $150.00 more, which will be saved in about 3 months of driving" says OmniValves.
"Then you have the savings in R&D and tooling to make these new hybrid models, your talking 100s of millions saved and passed on to the consumer, it is a win, win scenario" says OmniValves.
OmniValve is so satisfied from their testing and that there is no doubt what so ever this technology works and works extremely well and they are so comfortable with their broad patents and patents pending, that they are offering to engineers, manufactures and even some individuals, free sets of the OmniValve. To qualify for a free set, you must be either a potential customer or someone who can advance the technology or someone willing to do advanced testing. Further details can be seen at www.omnivalves.com or Booth 51008 at 2006 SEMA in Las Vegas The Valves can be seen in person also in the Grand Ballroom New Products Showroom.
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