The transportation ministry revoked the truck maker’s certification of those engines in March.
Hino has recalled close to 47,000 vehicles made between April 2017 and March this year, but the recall is likely to widen, the Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday.Hino has joined a string of Japanese automakers involved in improper emissions tests. In 2018, the government said Mazda Motor Corp, Suzuki Motor Corp and Yamaha Motor Co Ltd had improperly tested vehicles for fuel economy and emissions.The accuracy of automakers’ emissions data was thrown into doubt in 2015 when Germany’s Volkswagen AG admitted that it had installed secret software in hundreds of thousands of U.S. diesel cars to cheat exhaust emissions tests and that as many as 11 million vehicles could have similar software installed worldwide.