The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

One of those pragmatic and practical cars that seems to be the darling of our loyal readership is in front of you today, the 2023 Honda Accord Hybrid. Beyond simply stating the words “Honda Accord,” I’m sure I can light up many a driver with the simple phrase “It’s Not A Crossover.” There’s a good reason for that.

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Baua Electric

MAY 8, 2024

It’s now 8 or 12 kwh, enough for 60 or 90 miles of range, respectively, compared to 5.8 kwh and 50 miles. We have a feeling it’s not quite going to be of the caliber of that in upcoming Afeela EVs from Sony and Honda, though.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 20, 2024

Honda Space-Hub Concept – 2024 CES Honda may be a late-starter with mass-production EVs, but as communicated last week with the Saloon and Space-Hub concepts and by company executives, it has big plans for later in the decade—including multiple platforms underpinning a unified Series 0 architecture. sales in calendar year 2023.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Every new 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid is equipped with numerous standard features including Honda’s LaneWatch blind spot display system, a premium feature not available on competitive hybrid models, Honda says.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

Last week at CES in Las Vegas, Honda provided a first look at future EV models planned for 2026 with the Saloon and Space-Hub concepts. Honda also said they’ll be connected yet fun-to-drive, offer a not-yet-detailed Motion Management System for ride and handling, emphasize efficiency, and have lightweight, energy-dense battery packs.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Road Test: 2023 Honda HR-V EX-L AWD A Complete Makeover for the Smallest Honda Crossover The 2023 Honda HR-V begins the second generation for the smallest crossover in the Honda line-up. With a new design and built on a new platform, the 2023 Honda HR-V continues to be a good value with a roomy interior and 30+ mpg.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

As part of its effort to reduce its global CO 2 emissions and minimize the environmental impact of its operations, Honda of America Mfg. The CNG station, which will be designed, constructed and operated by Trillium CNG, will be the first public CNG station located on a Honda property in North America.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2017

The 2017 Honda Clarity Electric sedan arrived at the beginning of August in select dealerships in California and Oregon. With an introductory lease price of $269 (plus tax) a month for 36 months, the lease terms include an allowance of 20,000 miles per year and 24/7 roadside assistance. Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The 2022 Honda Civic sedan has been completely redesigned–and for many that will be a good thing. Honda’s best-selling passenger car–and their second best-selling model behind only the CR-V crossover–will not lose any sales with this newly designed sedan and hatchback. Honda bumps up mpg & power. Two Engine Choices.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Honda’s radical new Saloon concept, which serves to preview a line of revolutionary new EVs dubbed the 0 Series, is 90% ready for production in 2026. It will be the first in Honda’s new 0 Series electric car line-up. ” Zero series represents complete reinvention of Honda’s line-up, including new H-mark branding.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

At CES in Las Vegas, the Honda Saloon and Space-Hub concepts provided a head-turning first look at the automaker’s 0 Series (Zero Series) EVs set to launch starting in 2026. These models aim to go “thin, light, and wise,” with high efficiency and low battery degradation, and they include by-wire steering. Looking at 14 different U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Results of a study led by a team from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on the impact of butanol-gasoline blends on light-duty vehicle emissions suggest that widespread deployment of n-butanol or i-butanol in the gasoline pool could result in changes to the estimated emissions of alcohols and carbonyls in the emissions inventory.

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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. At Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

miles per gallon, slightly higher than MY 2016, and a record high overall. The report also assesses compliance performance for individual automakers and for the US fleet as a whole with the greenhouse gas emissions standards for light-duty vehicles. Estimated Real-World CO 2 and Fuel Economy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The Honda Clarity Fuel Cell sedan ( earlier post ) made its North American debut at the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show as Honda announced additional details for the vehicle’s entry into the US market. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are a zero emissions technology that Honda believes in, and has worked to advance for more than 20 years.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2015

Honda staged the North American debut of the Honda FCV fuel cell vehicle at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS); the company also announced US availability for the FCV in 2016. Additionally, Honda said it plans further application of its two- and three-motor hybrid systems in the years to come. Honda FCV Concept.

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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

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

AUGUST 12, 2011

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. Honda will invest approximately US$800 million to build the plant, which is scheduled to begin operation in 2014.

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Current EV

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The Honda CR-V has an incredible record of global sales. The core of the vehicle’s popularity is its combination of efficiency, functionality, simple style, safety and legendary Honda quality. The 2021 Honda CR-V Hybrid crossover retains the same basic design and features as its 2020 predecessor. By John Coulter, CURRENT EV CMO.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 26, 2012

Is there a more depressing sight when driving than seeing the brake lights of hundreds of cars ahead on the freeway suddenly illuminating? Even if there's no accident or construction work causing the mass slow-down, it takes only a few drivers miles ahead to bring traffic behind to a complete halt.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

No, not the Toyota Starlet or Corolla Tercel , not the Honda CRX HF , not the Subaru Justy. If you want to be picky, the 198 6 Sprint ER was the gas-mileage king of 1980s America, rated at 44 city and 53 highway miles per gallon. The Volkswagen Fox , base Subaru 3-door and Plymouth Horizon America undercut the Sprint's price as well.

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Current EV

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Its 42-mile EV range, its 600-mile total range and relatively low price tag have made the PHEV an instant smash hit. The most striking are its 42-mile EPA-Estimated EV Mode Range; a whopping 600-mile EPA-Estimated Total Driving Range; an EPA-Estimated Hybrid Mode MPG city/highway/combined of 40/36/38; and a 94 MPGe EPA rating.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 8, 2023

This includes a driver-configureable full windshield head-up display (visible to everyone in the car), a digital welcome that includes vocal, lighting, and the driver’s avatar projected on the front side window. This would give the ability to add about 100 miles of range in about 10 minutes, or even go 10% to 80% charge in 20 minutes.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

and industry partners Siemens, Honda, and Cohda Wireless have launched a “ Communicating Cars ” test drive along the ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) Corridor across Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Honda: supplying the cars for the tour. NXP Semiconductors N.V. Cohda Wireless: supplying the application software.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed GHG standards, which are harmonized with NHTSA’s CAFE standards, are projected to require 163 grams/mile of CO 2 ) in model year 2025. The 163 g/mile limit would be equivalent to 54.5 A Scion iQ costs $55 more than a Mazda 2, but gets 5 more miles per gallon.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

Honda opened its new $124-million wind tunnel facility in Ohio, ushering in a new era of development testing capabilities for Honda and Acura products, as well as the company’s race vehicles. The new Honda Automotive Laboratories of Ohio (HALO) facility, located at the independent Transportation Research Center Inc.

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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. It also has up to 29 miles of range coming from the 17.7

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

In its sixth sales-weighted analysis of emissions from 8 major automakers’ 2013 model year vehicles, the Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) latest Automaker Rankings report found that Hyundai-Kia unseated Honda as the “Greenest Automaker.” Honda came in second, with Toyota, Nissan, and Volkswagen in a three-way tie for third place.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

65% agreed with the decision to set new miles-per-gallon standards for 2025, with 30% saying they strongly agreed with the decision. 29% of respondents indicated that they would expect at least an additional 2% of electrified light-duty vehicles above the ZEV mandate requirements to be necessary to meet the 2025 targets.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Mitsubishi’s i-MIEV battery electric vehicle took the top spot from the Honda Civic Natural Gas on the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE) 14 th annual environmental ranking. Honda Civic Natural Gas. Honda Insight. Honda Civic Hybrid. Honda CR-Z. ACEEE 2012 “Greenest” Rankings. Green score.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 1, 2023

During our week in the Sonata Hybrid, we drove 345 miles through Southern California, averaging 49.3 Our freeway fuel economy test loop of 210 miles, with the adaptive cruise control set to 65 mph, averaged a very impressive 55.8 The strip appears to be chrome during the day, but at night, it lights up. coefficient of drag.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The only way of developing credible algorithms that will have robust performance in real-world edge cases is to rely on large amounts of data from different lighting, road and weather conditions. Amongst its sponsors are firms such as Volkswagen, Ford, Toyota, Samsung, Bosch, Honda, Hyundai, Qualcomm and NVIDIA.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

While Hyundai, Toyota and Honda seized much attention over their presentations of fuel cell rollout plans (in the case of Hyundai) and concepts (in the case of Honda and Toyota) at the Los Angeles and Tokyo auto shows, Daimler used EVS27 in Barcelona as a forum to report on its 3.3 million miles) in fleet testing. million km (5.6

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 5, 2022

That number jumps to 105 MPGe, or miles per gallon equivalent, when combining electricity and gasoline. With a plug-in option the Escape can drive all-electric (for more than 40 miles we found). 244 total miles, with 144 all-electric miles. 72 miles, with 35.3 all-electric miles. ?? 72 miles, with 35.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2015

For the second consecutive model year, the automotive industry outperformed the national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards by a wide margin, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) second annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Light Duty Vehicles: Manufacturer’s Performance Report.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

BMW-Toyota, Daimler-Ford-Nissan, and Honda-GM. Fueling of FCEVs to the SAE J2601 Hydrogen Fueling Standard requires only 3–5 minutes and gives a high state of charge (SOC) equaling a range of 300 miles or more (500 km+). Earlier post.) Source: Jesse Schneider. Click to enlarge. This is on par with gasoline internal combustion vehicles.

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