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Report: Acura EV to be made in Tennessee, alongside Cadillac Lyriq

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General Motors plans to make an upcoming Acura-branded electric vehicle in 2024 at the same Tennessee plant that will assemble the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq, while a more affordable Honda crossover set to be about the same size could be made by GM in Mexico beginning in 2023.

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GM to Build EV Crossovers for Honda, Acura

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A Honda will be built at a GM plant in Mexico, and an Acura alongside the Cadillac Lyriq in Tennessee. In an Automotive News report, it was noted that in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, where GM builds the Chevrolet Blazer and Equinox, the […].

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Byton reboot, Mazda rotary, Nio flagship, EVs for Honda and Acura: Today’s Car News

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A report suggests GM is making plans to build EVs in Mexico. Mazda at last confirms a rotary-engine range extender for the U.S. Nio is going long on driving range but not shying away from battery swapping. And Foxconn provides a lifeline to Byton. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Honda to build new plant in Mexico for production of subcompact vehicles, starting in 2014

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Honda de Mexico, S.A. HDM), Honda’s production and sales company in Mexico, will build an automobile plant for production of fuel-efficient subcompact vehicles for the Mexican and North American markets. The new plant in Mexico will increase Honda’s automobile production capacity in North America from the current 1.63

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Honda begins 2015 Fit production at new plant in Mexico; plant designed exclusively for subcompacts

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Honda continued the expansion of its manufacturing operations in North America with the production start of the redesigned 2015 Honda Fit at a new, automobile plant of Honda de Mexico, S.A. The start-up of the Celaya Plant increases Honda’s annual automobile production capacity in North America to approximately 1.92 million units.

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Honda’s Indiana plant to boost production capacity; add Civic Hybrid

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Indiana was the first Honda plant in North America to build a hybrid vehicle when it started Acura ILX Hybrid production in April. HMIN produces the Civic Sedan and the Civic Natural Gas on the same assembly line with the Acura ILX. million units after its new Mexico plant starts production of the Fit sub-compact in the spring of 2014.

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Honda President Ito steps down, Takahiro Hachigo to replace him

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where he became actively involved in the local development of Honda and Acura automobiles. During the six years of Ito’s leadership, Honda was able to evolve its global manufacturing structure, notably the establishment of automobile plants in Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Indonesia, India and China.

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