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Toyota officials have unveiled a planned partnership with a Kentucky landfill that will generate plant electricity from the landfill's gas.  The plan is expected to begin later this month.  Electricity generated by the project will be enough to produce about 10,000 vehicles per year at the Georgetown, Kentucky manufacturing plant. 

Having a Landfill operator working directly with a manufacturer on this type of project has never before been accomplished in the United States…

TOKYO (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.'s second-biggest supplier said the carmaker's goal to almost eliminate conventional combustion engines by 2050 is a wake-up call for parts makers to transform their businesses.

Yasumori Ihara, who ran Toyota's emerging markets operations before becoming Aisin Seiki Co.'s president in June, said the automaker's objective means components makers need to prepare to supply for cars that will be predominantly hybrids or fuel-cell vehicles.

"We need…

The automaker has announced that it has nearly 1,900 orders for the Mirai in the US, more than the expected initial production run of the hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle...