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  • Yamaha Motor Wins Taiwan Golden Pin Design Award Grand Prize - EC-05 Electric Scooter Receives Second Design Award -

    IWATA, December 9, 2019 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that its EC-05 electric scooter has received the “Best Design” - the highest honor - in the Taiwan Golden Pin Design Award. Following on from being named “Winner” in the “German Design Award,” this recognition represents the second design accolade for the EC-05.
    The EC-05 is an electric scooter developed in colla

  • Cultivating Lifelong Fans and Customers Yamaha Motor Newsletter (December 4, 2019 No. 76)

    “Create demand through your own efforts.” This has been part of Yamaha Motor’s corporate culture since our founding and serves as the basis of our work in each of our business operations and product lines. One example of this can be found in Japan, where the low birthrate and aging population is presenting real challenges for the future. Yamaha holds Parent-Child Motorcycle Classes and Engine

  • Third time “Winner” for Yamaha Motor in “German Design Award 2020” International Design Competition - In succession from 2017, and 2018 -

    IWATA, November 25, 2019 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that its electric scooter EC-05 has been given the title “Winner” in the Excellent Product Design category of the “German Design Award 2020”, the country's prestigious design award.
    The EC-05 is an electric scooter developed in collaboration with Gogoro Inc. (head office: Taoyuan City, Taiwan; CEO: Horace Luke)

  • Announcement of Personnel Changes

    IWATA, November 14, 2019 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel changes, effective November 15, 2019.
     
    1. Change in duties of Executive Officers
    Name New Position Current Position Yasuo Tanaka Executive Officer of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd., and Chief General Manager of CS Center, and Senior General Mana

  • Yamaha Motor Net Sales Up Slightly, Earnings Down in First Three Quarters of FY Ending in December

    IWATA, November 13, 2019 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announces consolidated business results for the first nine months. Net sales for Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.'s consolidated accounting period for the first nine months of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019 were 1,267.2 billion yen, an increase of 5.3 billion yen (0.4%) compared with the same period the previous fiscal year. Opera

  • Katsuyuki Nakasuga Defends Title with 9th All Japan JSB1000 Championship Win

    November 5, 2019—The final round of the All Japan Road Race Championship was held at Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture on November 3, 2019 as the 51st Motorcycle Federation of Japan Grand Prix (MFJGP). In the premier JSB1000 class, the Yamaha Factory Racing Team’s Katsuyuki Nakasuga rode his YZF-R1 to victory in Race 1 and finished 2nd in Race 2 to seal a second consecutive title win and bring h

  • Yamaha Motor Exhibits City Commuter TRICITY300 at EICMA - “To someday create motorcycles that lean, but do not fall" - 4th model with LMW technology -

    IWATA, November 5, 2019 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that its new model, the TRICITY300 LMW*1 equipped with a water-cooled, 4-stroke, SOHC, single-cylinder, 292cm3 “BLUE CORE” engine will be on display at the EICMA (International Motorcycle Exhibition) in Milan, Italy from November 5.
    TRICITY300 is designed and positioned as a middle class LMW in line with the co

  • Yamaha Motor Releases High-Function 2-axis Robot Controller - RCX320 - Equipped with real-time output function for predictive maintenance info -

    IWATA, November 1, 2019 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that its new RCX320 will go on sale from December 1. The RCX320 is a 2-axis model of the RCX340 multi-axis robot controller, which has become a best seller due to its high performance and ease of use.
    The RCX320 inherits the advanced functionality and flexible expandability of the RCX340 realizing synchronous

  • Yamaha Motor - First “TRITOWN” Trial on Public Roads — Verifying versatility of compact electric two-front-wheeled standing mobility —

    IWATA, October 30, 2019—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) today announced its first public road trialing of the compact electric two-front-wheeled standing mobility unit, TRITOWN in association with the city of Takayama - Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Trialing is scheduled to commence in front of the Takayama train station on November 9-10 (with a secondary option of November 16-17).
    In this

  • Yamaha Motor Industrial-Use Unmanned Helicopters: Forestry Survey

    IWATA, October 28, 2019 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that the company in a consortium with woodinfo, Inc., Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, and Maruyoshi Limited, will collect data on “Increased Wood Material Production AI Construction Model Projects'' in Kumakougen Town, commissioned by Ehime Prefecture for 3 days from October 28.
    This project will util

  • Yamaha Motor - Combined Initiative to Realize MaaS using Low-speed Mobility

    The three companies, Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Yamaha Motor”), Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance”) and MS & AD InterRisk Research & Consulting, Inc. (hereinafter “MS & AD Interrisk Research”) have today, decided to conclude an agreement on low-speed mobility (hereinafter referred to as land cars) demonstrations and risk management

  • Yamaha Motor - Unnan City Demonstration by Green Slow Mobility - Supporting the creation of towns where people love walking -

    IWATA, October 28, 2019 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that in collaboration with Unnan City and Takenaka Corporation and nonprofit organization ETIC, it would embark on the Green Slow Mobility Demonstration - a compact, golf car based, slow speed vehicle project for the main facilities in Yunnan City, Shimane Prefecture.
    This initiative is based on the above-mentio

  • The Yamaha Motor Booth at the 46th Tokyo Motor Show 2019 “There Is Greater Joy Yet to Come”

    IWATA, October 23, 2019 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) will participate in the 46th Tokyo Motor Show 2019 (Organizer: Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc.) to be held at the Tokyo Big Sight from October 24 (Thu.) to November 4 (Mon.). Located in the venue’s West Hall 2, the theme of the Yamaha Motor booth will be “There Is Greater Joy Yet to Come - ART for Human Possibilitie

  • Yamaha Motor & Sony to Commence Services of jointly developed Entertainment Vehicles - Autonomous Drive Technology Integrated with Mixed Reality Imaging Delivers New Low-Speed Mobility Experience -

    IWATA, October 17, 2019 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) announced today that the company will commence services from November 1, 2019 using the SC-1 entertainment vehicle - Sociable Cart jointly developed with the Sony Corporation. The first services will start at the Kanucha Bay Resort (Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture) and at the Southeast Botanical Gardens (Okinawa City, Okinawa Prefectur

  • New Skies for Yamaha’s Unmanned Helicopters Yamaha Motor Newsletter (October 11, 2019 No. 75)

    Since around 2015, the commercial drone business has grown rapidly on a global scale and is expected to further expand going forward. Today, remotely operated or autopilot-equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) fitted with cameras or surveying devices are used for aerial photography and filming, observation and measurement of landforms and construction sites, and for transporting packages.

  • Announcement of Personnel Changes

    IWATA, October 11, 2019 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel changes, effective October 15, 2019.
     
    1. Changes in group companies
    Name New Position Current Position Shinji Takeda Vice Chairman of Yamaha Motor Taiwan Co., Ltd. Yamaha Motor Taiwan Co., Ltd. Main businesses of the group comp

  • The Yamaha Motor Booth at the 46th Tokyo Motor Show 2019 “There Is Greater Joy Yet to Come”

    IWATA, October 10, 2019 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) will participate in the 46th Tokyo Motor Show 2019 (Organizer: Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc.) to be held at the Tokyo Big Sight from October 24 (Thu.) to November 4 (Mon.). Located in the venue’s West Hall 2, the theme of the Yamaha Motor booth will be “There Is Greater Joy Yet to Come - ART for Human Possibilitie

  • "Sharing Dreams" Release of a new documentary movie

    We are pleased to announce release of a new documentary movie, “Sharing Dreams.” on our corporate website.
    >See the movie
    The scene for this movie, the 15th in the series, is Australia.
    Children’s dreams know no bounds. Their genuine aspiration becomes what drives them as they grow and mature under the watchful and caring eyes of their parents.
    Zane Burchell has his eyes fixed on o

  • Peerapong Boonlert Wins Career-First ARRC SS600 Title

    September 23, 2019—The penultimate round of the 2019 season of the Asia Road Racing Championship (ARRC) took place from September 19 to 22 at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia, where Peerapong Boonlert of the Yamaha Thailand Racing Team rode his YZF-R6 to 3rd place in Race 1 of the SuperSports600 (SS600) class, giving him his 11th podium finish of the season—including 7 race wins—to

  • Yusuke Watanabe to Enter Final Two All Japan Motocross Championship Rounds

    September 17, 2019 ― Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is proud to announce that Yusuke Watanabe, who contested his second season in the AMA 250cc Motocross Championship in the United States this year, will race in the All Japan Motocross Championship for the CycleTrader/Rock River/Yamaha team aboard a YZ250F in the IA2 class at Round 7 (October 12–13) in Kumamoto Prefecture and Round 8 (October 26–27), t

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