Daily News Briefs: June 18, 2012

By Kelsey Mays

March 5, 2015

In other news:

Ford says it has cut the energy needed to make cars by 20% since 2006, and it wants to reduce energy consumption at its factories another 25% by 2016, The Detroit News reports.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has expanded its probe last February of fires from power window switches in the 2007 Toyota Camry and RAV4, The Detroit Free Press reports. NHTSA added certain 2008 and 2009 Camrys, plus the 2007-09 Yaris and 2008 Highlander Hybrid to the investigation.
NHTSA also expanded two other probes: one of GM’s mid-2000s midsize SUVs — the Chevrolet TrailBlazer and its ilk — from door fires, The Detroit News reports, and another to Chrysler’s 1990s and 2000s Jeep Grand Cherokee, Cherokee and Liberty SUVs for possible fuel-tank ruptures.
Toyota introduced the Camatte concept, a low-speed, not-street-legal EV for kids. Automotive News says Toyota “envisions the Camatte as a recruiting and training tool for the next-generation of Japanese drivers,” though the automaker has no plans to build it.

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