Hino Motors, the truck manufacturing subsidiary of Toyota, has reached a significant settlement with U.S. authorities over falsified diesel emissions data.

Toyota Motor unit Hino Motors has agreed a $1.6 billion settlement with U.S. agencies and will plead guilty over excess diesel engine emissions in more than 105,000 U.S. vehicles, the company and U.S.

Hino’s illegal activities were discovered by the EPA when the agency conducted confirmatory testing of Hino’s engines.

U.S. officials announced a $1.6 billion deal with Toyota's Hino Motors unit to settle charges it deceived regulators about the amount of emissions spewed by its diesel engines.

Hino Motors has reached a $1.6 billion settlement and agreed to plead guilty to charges of excess diesel engine emissions.

The U.S. Justice Department, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), FBI, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector

$30.3 million to resolve California False Claims Act claims. Hino Motors is majority owned by Toyota Motor Corp. and is headquartered in Hino, Tokyo. Article continues below this ad

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.

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.

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.

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.

The U.S. government said that Hino Motors fraudulently altered its emission and fuel consumption data to sell over 105,000 diesel engines from 2010 to 2022. As part of a