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  • Yamaha Motor Releases New E-VINO Electric Commuter ~Bringing more practicality while priced in line with gasoline-run models

    IWATA, November 19, 2014 – Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) will release its new electric commuter model E-VINO from December 2014, which offers the great combination of practicality and affordability. Manufacturing and sales of the new model will be carried out by Yamaha Motor Taiwan Co., Ltd.
    The E-VINO is powered by a newly-developed motor and a new 50V lithium-ion battery. Thanks to thes

  • Summary of Consolidated Business Results for the First Nine Months of the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2014

    IWATA, November 6, 2014 – Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announces Consolidated business results for the first nine months of the fiscal year. Net sales in the consolidated accounting period for the first nine months of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014 were 1,124.6 billion yen – an increase of 76.7 billion yen (+7.3%) compared with the same period the previous fiscal year – showing a

  • Yamaha Motor to showcase 02GEN at the International Conference for Universal Design 2014 ~Next-generation wheelchair design concept expressing activeness and elegance

    IWATA, November 5, 2014 – Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) will exhibit its design concept for the electrically power assisted wheelchair 02GEN at the International Conference for Universal Design 2014 to be held at the Tokyo International Exchange Center.
    Yamaha Motor, which has positioned design as a central pillar of product creation from its founding, established Refined Dynamism as its

  • Yamaha Motor to Release Two New YZF-R1 Supersport Models in Europe and U.S. ~YZF-R1 & YZF-R1M share lineage with MotoGP machines

    IWATA, November 4, 2014 – Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today the planned release of two new supersport flagship models, the YZF-R1 and its high-end counterpart YZF-R1M, first in Europe in early March 2015 and then in North America. Both models feature an entirely new 998cm3 liquid-cooled, in-line four-cylinder engine with crossplane crankshaft.
    The all-new 2015 YZF-R1 and YZF-

  • Yamaha Motor to Start Publishing News from Mynewsdesk

    Dear Journalists, Yamaha Motor will be delivering its releases and newest updates using 'Mynewsdesk'
    to communicate more effectively and efficiently with you.  http://www.mynewsdesk.com/yamaha-motor From now on, all our releases will be available on this website, together with a bunch
    of high-resolution photos pertaining to the release.
    Hopefully more high quality imagery (stills an

  • Promoting Safety Awareness (YRA)

    Yamaha has long worked in a variety of ways to instruct customers in the proper use of our products. These activities are now a part of the Yamaha Riding Academy (YRA) program run all over the world today for a wide range of product categories. In this issue, we focus on the motorcycle category as we introduce Yamaha’s efforts past and present to promote safety awareness.