TOKYO, June 10, 2026 - (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) - Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (hereafter, Mitsubishi Motors) announced that Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) and Mitsubishi Motors Sales of Canada, Inc. (MMSCAN), its sales companies in the United States and Canada, respectively, will begin sales of the all-new Eclipse Sportback in the second half of 2026. The model is a battery electric vehicle (BEV) supplied by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (hereafter, Nissan) on an OEM basis.The all-new Eclipse Sportback is an electric subcompact SUV that combines sporty styling with strong environmental performance. Designed for a variety of driving needs, it offers practicality across a range of uses, from everyday driving to leisure activities. In the exterior design, Mitsubishi Motors has applied its own distinctive modifications to express its unique identity. These elements include the front and rear bumpers, front grille, headlights and rear combination lamps, rear gate, as well as the D-pillars and wheels along the sides.As Alliance partners, Mitsubishi Motors and Nissan are actively pursuing collaboration that strengthens the businesses of both companies through product initiatives that are mutually complementary. These efforts include collaborative projects involving new pickup trucks for the North American market and kei-cars for the Japanese market. OEM arrangements also support these activities, with Mitsubishi Motors supplying Nissan with the Rogue Plug-in Hybrid for North America, the Navara for Oceania, and the Livina for the Philippines, while procuring the Versa Van for the Philippine market from Nissan. As a further step, Mitsubishi Motors will receive the all-new Eclipse Sportback from Nissan on an OEM basis for the U.S. and Canadian markets.Mitsubishi Motors will continue to leverage a range of partnerships to expand its product lineup and accelerate efforts to improve profitability. Copyright 2026 JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com. All rights reserved. www.jcnnewswire.com

TOKYO, Japan, June 10, 2026 - (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) - Bosch Home Comfort Group, the HVAC *1 business unit of Robert Bosch GmbH (“Bosch”) and Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501, “Hitachi”), Hitachi Global Life Solutions, Inc. (“Hitachi GLS”) have agreed to collaborate on "HMAX for Buildings" - a suite of building management solutions that combine Bosch’s and Hitachi's domain knowledge in commercial HVAC with advanced AI. This collaboration aims to accelerate global expansion by maximizing the lifetime value of equipment in mission-critical facilities that require continuous operation, such as office buildings, commercial complexes, universities, hospitals, and factories.In recent years, the building management environment has faced complex and sophisticated challenges. These include labor shortages driven by a shrinking workforce, the need for decarbonization amid global boiling, and rising energy costs, alongside growing demands for operational efficiency due to the increasing sophistication and complexity of facility management tasks. Furthermore, the focus has shifted beyond initial equipment installation costs to maximizing the lifetime value of assets, including their operation and maintenance. To address these challenges, initiatives aimed at optimizing operations and achieving energy savings through the utilization of equipment data have become increasingly vital.Therefore, through the collaboration between the Bosch Home Comfort Group and the Hitachi Group, we aim to maximize the value delivered to our customers and expand our business globally by connecting HVAC equipment with digital services. Specifically, by integrating Bosch Home Comfort Group's HVAC equipment management and visualization solution, "air Cloud Pro," with Hitachi Group's "exiida" (an HVAC IoT solution under "BuilMirai" that is "HMAX for Buildings"), Bosch Home Comfort Group's HVAC systems will connect to "BuilMirai". This will enable advanced, integrated operation and management of building facilities, including remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and energy management. Through these capabilities, we will contribute to maximizing asset lifetime value by optimizing facility maintenance costs, minimizing downtime, and reducing energy expenses.As part of this collaboration, the companies will proceed with verifying effectiveness through trials, while deepening their partnership to sophisticated services. *1 HVAC: Abbreviation for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning. At Hitachi GLS, which belongs to the Urban Solutions & Services Business Unit Group of Hitachi’s Connective Industries (CI) Sector, we provide facility services that maximize lifetime value for customers and transform industries globally, contributing to a prosperous society. We achieve this through the combination of strong products and HMAX for Buildings, a next generation suite of solutions that combine data from an extensive installed base of digitalized assets with domain knowledge and advanced AI.Bosch Home Comfort GroupThe Bosch Home Comfort Group is a global provider of efficient heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) solutions with an innovative product portfolio adapted to regional needs. Following its landmark strategic acquisition in the residential and light commercial HVAC business in August 2025, the company unites a comprehensive portfolio of global and regional brands, including Bosch, Buderus, Hitachi, and YORK®. The Bosch Home Comfort Group employs 24,000 people worldwide and has a strong market presence in the Americas, Asia, and Europe / Middle East / Africa, with an international production development network at more than 50 locations. The Bosch Home Comfort Group generated sales of around 4.4 billion euros in 2025 (excluding the newly acquired units).Trademarks: All trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners.About Hitachi, Ltd.Through its Social Innovation Business (SIB) that brings together IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products, Hitachi aims to be a global leader in continuously transforming social infrastructure through digital, contributing to a harmonized society where the environment, wellbeing, and economic growth are in balance. Hitachi operates worldwide across four sectors – Digital Systems & Services, Energy, Mobility, and Connective Industries – as well as a Strategic SIB Business Unit focused on new growth areas. With Lumada at its core, Hitachi creates value by combining data, technology and domain knowledge to solve customer and social challenges. Revenues for FY2025 (ended March 31, 2026) totaled 10,586.7 billion yen, with 606 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 290,000 employees worldwide. Visit us at www.hitachi.com. About Hitachi Global Life Solutions, Inc.Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Hitachi Global Life Solutions, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi GLS is responsible for sale of (and provision of engineering and maintenance services for) home appliances, air conditioning equipment and other equipment and devices; and provision of products and solutions utilizing digital technologies. Based on the idea of "More smiles to life for one and all. A more comfortable tomorrow for people and society. With innovations that deliver happiness to the world, we open new doors to the future.", we seek to gain a closer understanding of customer lifestyles. By resolving individual customer lifestyle issues, through well-designed and sophisticated products and services utilizing of the Hitachi Group's value chain and digital technologies, we aspire to be a company that contributes to improving the quality of life for customers around the world. https://corp.hitachi-gls.co.jp/en Copyright 2026 JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com. All rights reserved. www.jcnnewswire.com

TOKYO, June 10, 2026 - (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) - Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, "Hitachi") today announced the expansion of its strategic alliance*1 with Google Cloud to support customers by accelerating the real-world deployment of physical AI and cybersecurity solutions to protect against AI generated threats. Garnering increasing attention, physical AI is a technology that connects AI-driven analysis and decision-making—derived from frontline data—to concrete actions such as autonomous control and operation of various devices and equipment. Continuously repeating this cycle enables optimal AI decision-making and execution tailored to each specific situation. Through the real-world deployment of physical AI, Hitachi is driving the transformation of social infrastructure.To realize this critical mission, through the strategic alliance, Hitachi will establish and globally deploy Hitachi's Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) model that leverages its strengths in IT, OT, and products cultivated through Lumada, together with Google Cloud’s advanced AI. FDEs are specialists that embed directly with customers, providing end-to-end support. Their work can include everything from identifying management challenges, to early validation of value through building proof-of-concepts (PoCs), to agile implementation to helping deploy projects into operations. Hitachi’s DNA includes a long history of practicing “on-site-oriented engineering,” working closely with customers to identify and solve challenges together, from discovery through resolution—an approach with strong similarities to the FDE model. Hitachi’s consultants and AI Transformation (AX) experts with deep expertise across a wide range of industries, together with Hitachi’s U.S. subsidiary Global Logic’s AI-native software engineers, will collaborate with Google Cloud’s leading engineers to support customers.The teams will work closely with Hitachi’s Frontier AI Deployment Center to further enhance HMAX by Hitachi, a next-generation suite of AI-powered solutions that helps drive social infrastructure innovation, by leveraging Gemini Enterprise, an advanced agentic platform that brings the best of Google AI to employees. Leveraging the enhanced HMAX as a core platform, the two companies will help frontline workers through the autonomous execution of complex operations. Furthermore, a data platform that allows domain knowledge gained from FDE activities to be reused as assets will enable Hitachi to deliver value to a wide range of customers at scale.In the field of physical AI, where AI directly connects with the real world, more robust security than ever before is essential. AI is also changing the cybersecurity landscape. Adversaries are actively leveraging AI models to accelerate vulnerability discovery and automate exploit generation at an unprecedented scale. In fact, research from Mandiant M-Trends 2026*2 by Google Cloud reveals that AI advancements have compressed cyberattack timelines significantly. To mitigate these risks, Hitachi’s Cyber Center of Excellence will partner with Google Cloud to deliver Google Cloud Security, including its Google AI Threat Defense*3 platform alongside Hitachi’s mission-critical domain knowledge to support customer security operations. This collaboration aims to securely scale physical AI value creation on a global level.BackgroundSince forming their alliance in May 2024, the two companies have advanced initiatives to create value through AI. As part of Hitachi’s “Customer Zero” approach, the company conducted a technical validation using Gemini Enterprise for maintenance and inspection work at Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd., which serves the power and industrial domains. The validation confirmed the potential to improve quality and efficiency*4, while also demonstrating Gemini Enterprise’s strong applicability to OT domains such as manufacturing and infrastructure. The trial also highlighted a shared understanding of the importance of specialists who, by taking a field-oriented, hands-on approach, can identify on-site constraints and, in an agile manner, create value and implement solutions to safely integrate advanced AI with operational equipment, business systems, and the tacit knowledge of experienced workers.Hitachi is now accelerating efforts to enhance AI literacy by introducing Gemini Enterprise within its Digital Systems & Services Sector, which leads AX, and by advancing numerous PoC projects where frontline employees actively utilize AI.Based on these proven results across the Hitachi Group, Google Cloud and Hitachi will expand their strategic alliance to safely scale the deployment of physical AI in customer production environments.New Initiatives under the Strategic Alliance1. Accelerating Physical AI Deployment through the Enhancement of FDEs CapabilitiesWorking closely with top engineers from Google Cloud, Hitachi’s consultants and AX experts, together with Global Logic’s AI-native software engineers, will further accelerate the development of Hitachi’s FDE capabilities. To leverage continuously evolving AI technologies in business and operational environments, the companies will use an agile approach that enables rapid validation and adaptation to change. Unlike conventional system integration approaches that build systems based on predefined customer requirements, this FDE model practiced by these teams will present and validate their effectiveness in actual operations. This approach enables customers to visualize return on investment in advance, minimize risks, and create business value through AI at high speed. 2. Advancing Solutions to Frontline Challenges through HMAX EnhancementBoth companies will enhance HMAX by integrating Gemini Enterprise’s agentic AI and multimodal Gemini models. Capable of simultaneously processing and understanding diverse data such as on-site camera footage and vast sensor data, Gemini Enterprise complements physical AI systems that autonomously operate by capturing real-world conditions. Leveraging these technological characteristics and incorporating use cases, such as maintenance and inspection using image comparison, Hitachi will promote autonomous operations in complex manufacturing and social infrastructure environments. To realize this, Hitachi will integrate its proprietary domain knowledge with Google Cloud’s agent-ready data technologies into Hitachi’s data platform. By doing so, Hitachi aims to create scalable business outcomes that go beyond the provision of AI services and establish new business models in the infrastructure sector.3. Next Generation Cybersecurity for AI Era ThreatsIn response to cybersecurity threats, the two companies will jointly deliver autonomous next generation security solutions. These solutions leverage Google Cloud Security technologies and services, including Wiz for automated risk reduction and comprehensive visibility into cloud and AI risks and Mandiant Consulting for cyber threat expertise, alongside Hitachi’s experience in mission-critical system integration in industries such as railways, energy, and finance, as well as its global OT knowledge. Its effectiveness has already been demonstrated through a “Customer Zero” approach, including the adoption of Google Security Operations across Hitachi Group companies globally. Both Google Cloud and Hitachi will continue efforts to expand proposals to customers going forward.Furthermore, the practical expertise and AI deployment technologies developed on the frontlines will be folded into the Frontier AI Deployment Center’s resources. By sharing these advanced insights widely among system engineers in Japan, Hitachi will strengthen FDEs across the Hitachi Group. These efforts will enable Hitachi to accelerate the FDE model rollout and advance AI on a global scale.Comment from Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud“Combining Hitachi’s deep domain knowledge, Global Logic’s engineering strength, and Google Cloud’s advanced AI and engineering resources represents an innovative approach to accelerating AI transformation in real-world environments. This partnership will better empower customers to implement AI agents and create value faster. In addition, by integrating Google Cloud Security’s advanced solutions with Hitachi’s expertise in mission-critical domains, we will help enable our customers to innovate within a secure, trusted environment for the AI era.”Comment from Jun Abe, Executive Vice President, Head of Digital Systems & Services Sector,Hitachi“Hitachi has been proactively promoting the introduction and practical use of Gemini Enterprise at scale as Customer Zero, and has experienced significant improvements in operational efficiency and productivity as a result. The expansion of this strategic alliance is intended to enable both companies to take on more complex challenges, based on the enhanced development of FDE capabilities. By combining the world’s most advanced AI implementation approaches developed by Google Cloud with Hitachi’s co-creation approach and Global Logic’s outstanding digital engineering capabilities, we aim to create value from physical AI in customers’ business environments. Furthermore, to deliver this value safely, we will integrate Hitachi’s expertise in building mission-critical systems with Google Cloud Security’s advanced technology and services, protect social infrastructure from threats in the AI era, and contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.”*1 Hitachi’s press release issued on May 28, 2024 Hitachi and Google Cloud Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Innovation and Productivity with Generative AI : Hitachi Global*2 Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/en/topics/threat-intelligence/m-trends-2026?hl=en*3 Google Cloud announcement on May 28,2026: Introducing Google AI Threat Defense to help you outpace the adversary | Google Cloud Blog*4 Hitachi’s press release issued on October 10, 2025 Hitachi Advances Strategic Alliance with Google Cloud to Empower Frontline Workers with Field-Specific AI AgentsAbout HMAX & LumadaTrademark Notice: All trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners.About Hitachi, Ltd.Through its Social Innovation Business (SIB) that brings together IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products, Hitachi aims to be a global leader in continuously transforming social infrastructure through digital, contributing to a harmonized society where the environment, well being, and economic growth are in balance. Hitachi operates worldwide across four sectors – Digital Systems & Services, Energy, Mobility, and Connective Industries – as well as a Strategic SIB Business Unit focused on new growth areas. With Lumada at its core, Hitachi creates value by combining data, technology and domain knowledge to solve customer and social challenges. Revenues for FY2025 (ended March 31, 2026) totaled 10,586.7 billion yen, with 606 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 290,000 employees worldwide. Visit us at www.hitachi.com. Copyright 2026 JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com. All rights reserved. www.jcnnewswire.com