Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Today, we drive the 2016 Honda Civic, explain why electric-car drivers tend to prefer leasing, and look at Toyota's plan to virtually stop selling internal-combustion cars by 2050. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Recent data from car leasing firm Hippo Leasing UK has indicated that the Tesla Model 3 is the most searched car model in the United States. Over the past six months, the all-electric sedan saw 3,819,000 Google searches from US users.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

SolarCity and American Honda Motor Co., are partnering to make solar power more affordable and available to Honda and Acura customers in the US, providing a cleaner source of electricity at a lower cost than utility-supplied power. A 20-year lease or power purchase agreement term applies. < The offer is time-limited.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 11, 2018

Tesla has shown off a cloaked car, and we suppose it may be the Model Y crossover. Honda has released attractive lease rates for the Clarity Electric in California and Oregon. We round out the best deals on hybrid, electric, and fuel-efficient cars for May 2018. All of this and more on Green Car.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Honda will introduce the new 5-passenger, hydrogen-powered Clarity Fuel Cell sedan by the end of 2016, beginning with retail leasing to customers through its expanded network of 12 approved fuel cell vehicle dealerships located in select California markets.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 3, 2024

Which major automaker might be partnering with Fisker for an electric pickup? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending March 2, 2024. Honda revealed the upcoming fuel-cell version of its Honda CR-V and, once again, it will only be available by lease in California.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 11, 2018

The 2018 Honda Clarity Electric car rolled into California and Oregon dealerships this week, but nobody can buy it. It's only available for lease for $199 a month for 36 months with $1,499 due at signing.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 12, 2017

What would you pay to lease a smooth, quiet, comfortable, relatively luxurious mid-size electric sedan with only about 90 miles of range? Honda hopes the answer is $269 a month with $1,730 down, on a three-year lease that takes advantage of the federal income-tax credit for electric-car purchase.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

Auto Show, Honda said that it will begin retail leasing of the new 5-passenger, hydrogen-powered Clarity Fuel Cell sedan ( earlier post ) to customers in select California markets before the end of 2016. Honda expects to price the Clarity Fuel Cell at around $60,000 with a targeted monthly lease under $500.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2011

The Nikkei reports that Honda Motor Co. Honda first released the Civic GX in the state of California in 1998 and currently offers the car in four states. At first, Honda marketed the car to government agencies and commercial users, but starting in 2005 it also began offering to lease the Civic GX to individual consumers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2012

Honda has begun deliveries of the 2013 Fit EV ( earlier post ), with the first going to the city of Torrance today as one of the first major steps in the Honda Electric Vehicle Demonstration Program. The city of Torrance will also receive a Honda plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) for additional testing at a later date.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Honda unveiled HondaLink, a new in-vehicle connectivity system that will debut this fall on the ninth-generation 2013 Honda Accord. Once in the car, consumers can enjoy personalized content accessible via voice recognition, steering-wheel mounted controls and in-dash audio system controls. HondaLink EV.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

2011 Honda FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle. In New York, General Motors and Honda announced a long-term, definitive master agreement to co-develop next-generation fuel cell system and hydrogen storage technologies, aiming for the 2020 time frame. —Takanobu Ito, president & CEO of Honda Motor Co. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 30, 2013

With lease prices for various electric cars creeping ever downwards, it was only a matter of time until Honda followed suit with its Fit EV. Originally priced at $389 per month, a letter given to us by an electric car owner revealed the lease price would drop to $259/month--now confirmed by Honda in a press release.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2016

Honda announced that the upcoming Clarity Fuel Cell ( earlier post ) will be joined by two additional electrified variants, the Clarity Electric and Clarity Plug-in Hybrid, launching in the US in 2017. On a global basis, Honda is aiming to have electrified vehicles account for two-thirds of its vehicles sales around 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

In his remarks prior to the unveiling of the new CR-Z hybrid ( earlier post ), Honda Motor President and CEO Takanobu Ito said that the company has taken up the challenge to reduce CO 2 emissions through advancing various electromotive technologies. “ But we’re studying the US market with a view to introducing this commuter car in the future.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 12, 2017

Today, rumors about an all-new electric car, why trucks can be cars even if their owners don't know what they are, a frustrating Ford experience (but not because of the car), and lease pricing on the all-electric Honda Clarity. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 23, 2015

With the first three-year leases of Honda Fit EVs now set to end in June, drivers of Honda''s only electric car have been wondering what will happen to their cars now. Many of them would like to hang onto the cars.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Honda has shown off the exterior and interior of the Prologue electric SUV, the first EV that will spring from its joint venture with General Motors. That comfortably puts Australia’s best-selling electric SUV, the Tesla Model Y , in the shade. 2024 Honda Prologue has a long wheelbase. Given the key measures it should be.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 24, 2012

Yesterday, Honda delivered its first Fit EV electric car to private buyers--or, more accurately, private lease customers, since the car isn't available for outright sale.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

West Coast have already been enjoying Honda's token contribution to the electric car market, the Fit EV. Now their counterparts in some East Coast markets will be able to lease the small EV too. A select few drivers on the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

One year ago, Honda unveiled a prototype Fit EV electric car at the Los Angeles Auto Show. This year, it showed a refined version that it says it will offer for lease next summer in California and Oregon, expanding into six East Coast markets early the following year.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Today, we've got a couple of Volkswagen electric-car stories, California's plans to eliminate fossil fuels, a very long-range electric bus, and a look at the whys and whethers of China's recent bombshell announcement. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2020

The company has demonstrated (in close collaboration with Linde) a world-class station availability of 98% which is encouraging further fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEV) roll out in the UK. ITM Power announced the lease of the world’s largest electrolyzer factory in Sheffield with a capacity of 1GW (1,000MW) per annum in July 2019.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

When marketing executive Chris Baccus leased a 2015 Fiat 500e three years ago, he intended to keep his 2007 BMW 335i as a "fun car," and use the electric Fiat just for commuting. Part of his interest in the Fiat, he admitted, came from an article about a group of race-car enthusiasts who.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Hyundai IONIQ 5 (left) and IONIQ 6 (right) at Tesla Supercharger (Source: Hyundai) There’s a loophole in the stricter IRA federal tax credit that only applies $3750 rebates on North American-built cars and separately $3750 on domestic batteries. For whatever reason, all EVs get the full $7500 applied to leases, however.

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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?) kg of hydrogen).

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 15, 2017

Today, we have another Bolt EV road trip, scratch our heads at Michigan, look at electric-car lease pricing, and consider a type of hybrid we may never see in North America. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

He heaps praise and digs the grave of Honda's fuel cell marvel. It is the most expensive car he's ever driven; he figures about $2 million. It is limo-spacious and drives electric-smooth. The 200 Angelenos who get to lease Honda's limited-production show dog will be impressed. Honda will be ready to go electric.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The Honda 3R-C, a new one-person battery electric vehicle concept, will make its world debut in Geneva alongside the EV-N concept, previously shown at the Tokyo Motor Show ( earlier post ), which will be displayed for the first time in Europe. The EV-N shows the potential application of battery technology in a small, stylish city car.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 12, 2018

Which electric car can California and Oregon buyers take home for less than $200 a month and get $1,000 for doing so? What electric car war recalled this week? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending May 11, 2018.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 24, 2021

Honda Drops Clarity FCEV; BMW & Land Rover Test Prototypes. Just during the past week Honda, one of the pioneers and stalwarts of the fuel cell market, announced it is discontinuing the low-volume Clarity, which is only sold in California. In the first five months of the year, Honda had only leased less than a thousand cars.

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Green Cars News

JULY 1, 2012

Honda’s new electric vehicle – the Honda Fit EV (pictured) – is heading to the USA: and it will be available for lease from July 20, 2012. This remarkable electric car has received the highest fuel efficiency rating in history from the Environmental Protection Agency at an incredible 118mpge – and now it will be [.].

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Today, the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq Electric is officially the most energy-efficient car sold in the U.S., a new video shows how a Tesla self-driving car "sees" the world around it, and we have details on the 2018 Toyota C-HR subcompact crossover. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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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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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Honda has announced that it is to start lease sales of a new electric scooter from Christmas Eve (December 24, 2010) in its home country of Japan. Initially the car maker [.]. The new EV neo is designed to offer businesses a clean, low cost and flexible transport solution, ideal for operation in urban areas.

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