Hino Motors, a subsidiary of the Japanese automaker Toyota, pleaded guilty on March 19 to engaging in a multiyear emissions scheme in the United States that defrauded both the U.S. government and consumers, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
As a result of the scheme, Hino Motors imported and sold more than 105,000 heavy-duty diesel engines into the United States between 2010 and 2022 that did not meet emissions standards. The engines were primarily installed in heavy-duty trucks made by the company, the DOJ said.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Goldsmith in Detroit accepted the truck-and-engine manufacturer’s guilty plea, the DOJ said in a statement….