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Toyota Produces Vehicle with Headlights Made of Light-Emitting Diodes.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2003

Kyodo News International, Tokyo Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 11--NAGOYA, Japan--Toyota Motor Corp. has test-manufactured an automobile that has powerful white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for headlights and is set to unveil it at the Tokyo Motor Show later this month, Toyota sources said Saturday.

The vehicle marks the first time for Toyota to use a white LED, a type of semiconductor chip, in headlights. The show will get under way Oct. 22 for journalists and Oct. 25 for the public.

The automaker earlier put on the market some vehicles that use white LEDs for blinkers and inside illumination.

The innovative white LED consumes less electricity than conventional automobile lights, they said.

It also allows...

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