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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has signed a memorandum of understanding relating to the promotion of electric vehicles with MMC's business partner in Taiwan China Motors Corp (CMC), Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) and the Hsinchu County government in northwestern Taiwan.
In a major transportation project, the Hsinchu County government will employ Mitsubishi Motors i-MiEV new-generation EVs to provide taxi services at the Taiwan High Speed Rail line's Hsinchu Station. Working with MMC, the local government will analyze the demand for and marketability of EVs as it pushes ahead with a detailed examination of the requirements for EV popularization, including such areas as tax incentives and the installation of charging infrastructure. The i-MiEVs will be supplied to CMC by MC. |
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| In a move designed to strengthen overseas sales in the water purification equipment business, Mitsubishi Rayon Cleansui, a Mitsubishi Rayon Group company, has teamed up with Mitsubishi Kagaku Media and launched a range of Cleansui household water purifiers in Australia and New Zealand in May this year. Water purifiers in the two countries, where the quality of tap water is similar to that in Japan, are mainly of the activated carbon filtration type. While this method does improve taste and smell it fails to remove rust particles or bacteria. Using hollow fiber membranes that filter out microparticles and bacteria, Cleansui water purifiers meet consumer requirements by delivering tasty drinking water that is also cleaner and safer. |
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electricity utility, have started a carbon capture technology demonstration project at the coal-fired plant operated by a subsidiary of the American company. This demonstration is the largest of its kind, capable of capturing approximately 150,000 tons of CO2 annually (500 tons/day) from flue gas of which volume is equivalent to 25MW size coal fired boiler. MHI intends to use the knowhow gained to commercialize its KM CDR Process® technology – which uses a special solvent (KS-1™) and was jointly developed with Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. – for capturing CO2. Collaborating with the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) and Electric Power Development Co., Ltd. (J-POWER), MHI conducted a pilot demonstration project that recovers CO2 from coal-fired flue gas at 10 tons/day at Matsushima power station in Japan from 2006 up to 2008. Compared with other CO2 capture technologies, the KM CDR Process uses significantly less energy.
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Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) unveiled its new-generation Canter light-duty truck for the first time in Australia at the 2011 Brisbane Truck Show held in May. MFTBC displayed a total of seven vehicles, including four new Canter models and the redesigned Fighter medium-duty truck. Launched in Japan in November 2010, the new Canter is powered by the lightweight, low-consumption 4P10 3-liter diesel engine and is the first commercial truck in the world to use the DUONIC ® dual-clutch transmission. Another first for the company in the Australian market is the use, on high engine output models, of the BlueTec ®
emissions reduction system, which combines a urea selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system and regeneration-control diesel particulate filter (DPF), on high engine output models. The new Canter achieves EEV, the voluntary European emissions standard that is more stringent than Euro 5. |
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