Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Honda Motor Co., Congress participants can also experience for themselves Honda’s ITS equipped Insight hybrid and an ITS Honda motorcycle (NC700X) by participating in the joint Car2Car and Testfeld Telematic Consortium demonstration around Vienna. Honda’s safety area will cover V2X communication for cars and motorcycles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Honda R&D Americas, Inc., has opened an Advanced Design Studio in downtown Los Angeles for the creation of future Honda and Acura automobile and mobility design concepts. The studio, one of three Honda maintains in the Los Angeles area, was previously located in Pasadena, Calif.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Honda Motor Co., Takanobu Ito, the current President, Chief Operating Officer and Representative Director, will remain on the board and assume the post of Director and Advisor to Honda Motor. From April 2004 to March 2006, Hachigo was stationed in the US as Senior Vice President of Honda R&D Americas, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

2009 Honda Formula One chassis configuration, showing KERS component location. Honda engineers decided to implement an electric motor/battery pack solution, rather than a flywheel solution, mounting the motor on the engine’s left front side with its power control unit (PCU) ahead of it, inside the monocoque chassis. Rotor Design.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2014

Preparing for the 2015 introduction of the next Honda fuel cell-electric vehicle (FCEV), Honda R&D Americas has installed an advanced hydrogen refueling station on its Torrance, California campus to serve as a platform for demonstrating and validating its MC Fill hydrogen fueling protocol. Honda’s fueling station. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Honda Motor Co., This model will be on display at the Honda booth during the show. Employing original Honda technologies, the fuel cell stack for this model was downsized by 33% compared to the previous version of the fuel cell stack yet delivers output of more than 100 kW, with an output density of 3.1 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2010

Honda Soltec Co., Honda’s wholly-owned solar cell subsidiary, began sales in Japan of two new residential-use solar cell modules with maximum output of 130W and 120W respectively, as well as a power conditioner with rated output of 5.5kW, adding to its lineup of home-use modules. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 20, 2011

Honda Motor Co., The initiative is part of the Electric Vehicle Testing Program for Honda’s next-generation personal mobility products, in which Honda and Saitama Prefecture are currently collaborating. In March 2009, Honda and Saitama Prefecture concluded an agreement to collaborate on environmental issues.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The 2013 Honda Civic represents a mid-cycle refresh of a car that was introduced as all-new for the 2012 model year. While that’s more than a bit unusual, the circumstances behind the development of the 2012 Honda Civic were themselves unusual.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 21, 2012

Over the past few years, we’ve been following with interest the ongoing legal battle between Honda and owners of its 2003-2008 Civic Hybrid. That Honda sold the Civic Hybrid on the basis of a claimed 50 mpg gas mileage that no-one could achieve.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

EPA began collecting industry-wide footprint data in MY 2008. The average footprint within each of the five vehicle types has been relatively stable between MY 2008 and MY 2016. The overall new vehicle average footprint has also been stable between MY 2008 and MY 2016. The average footprint for pickup trucks increased 1.5

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MARCH 11, 2009

Moto Honda da Amazonia Ltda.(HDA), HDA), a Honda subsidiary in Brazil responsible for production and sales of motorcycles and power products, will begin sales in Brazil of the flex fuel CG150 TITAN MIX in mid-March 2009. million units in 2008, and Honda sales accounted for 1.326 million units of the total.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

We've always been big fans of the Honda Fit subcompact hatchback, with fuel economy ratings of 28 mpg city, 35 mpg highway for the five-speed manual model. In its review of the newest 2010 Honda Fit, our sister site TheCarConnection lauded the Fit for: City-friendly steering and maneuverability Tremendously versatile backseat arrangement.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

Revolutionary New Honda EV In a first-ever technology pairing for series production, Honda is mating plug-in battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric in the all-new 2025 CR-V—e:FCEV. Carbon neutrality for all Honda products and corporate activities by 2050. Two (or is it three?)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Honda is launching a Civic model equipped with a new 1.6-liter l/100 km) with CO 2 emissions of 94 g/km (down one gram from the 95 g/km level announced by Honda Motor Europe’s President, Manabu Nishimae, earlier this year at the Geneva Motor Show). Honda’s i-DTEC diesel technology first went on sale in a 2.2-liter

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2012

In the case of Honda hybrid owners, more than 52% of them stayed with the Honda brand, while just under 20% of this same owner group bought another hybrid vehicle from any brand. As an example, the Honda Civic is the second most cross-shopped vehicle among both Toyota Prius and Honda Insight shoppers. Data: Polk.

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JULY 10, 2009

times June 2008 results of 6,231 units— according to data from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association (JADA). The Prius became the country’s top-seller in May for the first time, with sales of 10,915 units, which was up more than twice year-on-year from 5,079 units in May 2008.( Earlier post.). A hat-tip to Giora!).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

October 2009 had 28 selling days, while October 2008 had 27. Reported hybrid sales include those from Toyota, Ford, Honda, GM and Nissan; Mercedes-Benz is not breaking out sales of its new S400 Hybrid. million in October 2008. Toyota’s overall sales were essentially flat: 152,165 in October 2009 vs. 152,101 in October 2008.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Partners include Air Liquide, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG, BMW, Daimler, EnBW, Ford, GM/Opel, Hamburger Hochbahn, Honda, Linde, Shell, Siemens, TOTAL, Toyota, Vattenfall Europe and Volkswagen. Germany’s National Innovation Program for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP) has sponsored the CEP since 2008.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

Toyota’s Prius was the top-seller in Japan in July, with 27,712 units sold—almost quadruple the 7,058 units sold in July 2008, according to data from the Japan Automotive Dealers Association. The Honda Fit is still the volume leader from January-July, with 82,592 units total.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2009

September 2009 had 25 sales days compared to 24 days for September 2008. from September 2008. The Prius posted September sales of 10,984 units, up 1% from September 2008, but down 42% from August 2009. The Prius posted September sales of 10,984 units, up 1% from September 2008, but down 42% from August 2009. year-on-year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2013

GM pickup sales were the highest since September 2008. American Honda sold 19 units of the Fit-EV in December, bring the total for the year to 93. Overall, American Honda posted annual vehicle sales of 1,422,785 units in 2012, up 24.0% Total GM passenger car sales in 2012 increased 14% compared with 2011. compared with 2011.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 15, 2009

If you're one of the 120,000 people who own a Honda Civic Hybrid made between 2003 and 2008, you may already know about the proposed settlement to a lawsuit against Honda contending its advertising overestimated the gas mileage of your car. EPA ratings: 49 mpg city, 51 mpg highway In brief, two Honda.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

There were 26 selling days in August 2009, vs. 27 in August 2008. Changes in OEM hybrid market share, August 2008 to August 2009. in August 2008 to 8.2% Toyota dropped from 75% in August 2008 to 62.5% Honda picked up less than a percentage point (12.8% in August 2008, while GM saw its share drop from 6.3%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2009

The Prius posted 10,915 units in May, more than twice the 5.079 units sold in May 2008 and compared to 1,952 units in April 2009, according to the JADA data. In April, the Honda Insight had been the top-seller—the first hybrid to be such—with 10,481 units. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

Reported sales of hybrids in the US reported by Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM and Nissan dropped 45.5% year-on-year in April to 21,735, despite full month sales for the new Honda Insight and the Ford Fusion and Milan hybrids. high mark in April 2008. high mark in April 2008. Honda sold 3,361 Civic Hybrids in April, down 22.3%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Overall light-duty vehicle sales were essentially flat for the month, according to figures from Autodata, with 746,928 units sold in November 2009, compared to 746,789 units in November 2008. in November 2008, but down slightly from 2.9% November 2009 has 23 selling days, compared to 25 in November 2008. from November 2008.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines have increased market share ten-fold from less than 3% in MY 2008 to more than 30% in MY 2013. Turbochargers, which are often used in conjunction with GDI, have increased market share by a factor of five since MY 2008. l/100 km) or more in MY 2013 than in MY 2008.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 29, 2006

There's really only one way to read the Kyodo News (Japan) report that Honda President Takeo Fukui said in an interview that Honda thinks it will be able to mass produce fuel-cell vehicles for the general market by 2018. At the Santa Monica AltFuel Expo in early December, I asked Steven Ellis, Honda AFV Chief, about the FCX.

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All Cars Electric

JUNE 8, 2010

Sexy electric sports car creators Tesla motors have figured it out: sell off its excess zero-emission vehicle credits for much-needed hard cash to Honda, the only mainstream automaker to not yet fully commit to making an EV. In 2008, a revised version of the Californian zero-emissions mandate came.

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JULY 3, 2009

by volume in June 2009 year-on-year to 26,205 units, representing 3% of new vehicles sold—marking the highest monthly new vehicle share since April 2008, and the fourth straight month of increasing share. from 1,330 units in June 2008. Overall, Toyota’s US sales in June dropped 32% by volume compared to June 2008.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2010

December 2009 had 28 selling days vs. 26 days in December 2008; all comparisons here are by volume, not by adjusted day sales rate. over December 2008. percent from the same period in 2008. Honda reported December hybrid sales of 2,110 units, a 103.5% Total Honda sales for December increased 24.5% Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 28, 2024

However, it wore a premium price tag – on account of a high percentage of imported components – and simply wasn’t as exciting or appealing as others like the Honda City, Mitsubishi Lancer and Opel Astra. That rivals like the Honda CR-V and Ford Endeavour were priced lower and appeared better value, sealed the XL-7’s fate.

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MAY 11, 2009

Honda’s Insight ( earlier post ) ranked as the best-selling car among all new vehicle registrations in Japan in April—excluding mini-vehicles with displacement of less than 660cc—with sales of 10,481 units, according to data from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association. Insight sales in Japan from launch. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 3, 2009

drop by volume for the month compared to March 2008, based on total sales figures from Autodata ( earlier post ). new vehicle market share for hybrids in March—down from 2.82% in March 2008, but the highest mark so far in 2009. by volume from March 2008, down to 8,924 units. increase from March 2008, representing 4.3%

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MAY 1, 2009

April 2008 and April 2008 both had 26 selling days. million SAAR in April 2008. Combined reported US hybrid sales (from Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM and Nissan) in April totalled 21,735 units, a 45.5% Reported hybrid new vehicle share in April 2008 was 3.2%—the American Honda Motor Co., to 386,601 units.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 28, 2009

Following on from yesterday’s news about losses and falls in profit for Mitsubishi, Daihatsu and Hino Motors , Honda has now announced a significant loss of more than £1billion for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2008-2009. Over the course of fiscal year 2008, its group net profit has fallen by 77.2

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