Toyota US Truck Subsidiary Hino to Pay $1.6 Billion in Emissions Case

Hino agreed to issue a recall to modify the engines in some of its heavy-duty trucks sold in the United States.

Japan's auto giant Toyota Motor and its subsidiary Hino Motors display the new electric trucks, a one-ton capacity and equipped with compartments to keep cool and frozen, in Tokyo on March 1, 2013. Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP via Getty Images

Toyota-owned truck manufacturer, Hino Motors, agreed to a settlement agreement with multiple U.S. agencies following fraud allegations related to emissions testing.

U.S. agencies accused the company of submitting “false and fraudulent engine emission testing and fuel consumption data to regulators” as well as engaging in the “illicit smuggling of engines into the United States,” according to a Jan. 15 statement from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).