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Hino Motors will plead guilty to submitting false emissions data to regulators for more than 100,000 heavy-duty trucks. The company will pay an array of fines, and fix some affected vehicles for free.
The Justice Department charged Toyota truck unit Hino in U.S. District Court in Detroit, and NHTSA levied a civil penalty over emissions data cheating.
A Toyota division that manufactures trucks will pay more than $1.6 billion and plead guilty to violations related to the submission of false and fraudulent engine emission testing and fuel consumption data to regulators and the illicit smuggling of engines into the United States.
The US Federal government and California state authorities brought the charges against Hino and its US subsidiaries after the company voluntarily disclosed it had used falsified emissions test data to get approval to import and sell more than 110,000 diesel engines in the US, most of which were installed in heavy-duty trucks made by Hino.
Under terms of the criminal agreement, Hino Motors agreed to pay $521.76 million in fines and enter a guilty plea to charges. These payments, the business said, include credits linked to the civil settlement, which will completely cover its forfeiture requirements.
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Toyota subsidiary Hino Motors will pay $1.6 billion to resolve federal and state claims over falsified emissions data and excess pollution from more than 100,000 diesel engines sold in the U.S.