Honda News Articles
Honda Unveils New Personal People Mover
The race toward sustainable mobility is moving car companies in odd and unexpected directions. For example, Honda today unveiled the U3-X, a compact electric personal mobility device that fits between the rider’s legs to provide movement forward, backward, side-to-side, and diagonally. The PUMA people mover developed by General Motors and Segway. The Honda U3-X is [...]May 2010 Dashboard: Hybrid Car Sales Rebound
> Subscribe to the HybridCars.com Market Dashboard Sales of gas-electric cars jumped nearly 20 percent in May, compared to last month, outpacing the overall vehicle market that increased by 12.3 percent. Sales of the 2010 Toyota Prius, which continues to make up half of all hybrid purchases, increased by 13.5 percent to 14,248 units—despite a [...]Acura NSX Hybrid Concept Revealed in Detroit
Unveiled at the ongoing Detroit Auto Show, the Acura NSX Sport Hybrid Concept has been said by Honda to be slated for Ohio production within the next three years. As you might guess, an all-wheel-drive supercar like this is not aimed at dethroning the Prius. Instead, it intends to provide balanced high performance with enough [...]July 2010 Dashboard: Sales of Popular Hybrids Hold Firm
> Subscribe to the HybridCars.com Market Dashboard In one sense, July hybrid sales look dismal—falling by 33 percent compared to one year ago while the overall vehicle market increased by 5 percent. But an annual comparison is hardly helpful, because last July we were in the heat of the Cash for Clunkers program. the Toyota [...]Honda Will Produce Acura Hybrids
Honda CEO Takanobu Ito announced earlier this week that Acura will add a hybrid drivetrain to its models. Ito made the announcement at the Detroit auto show, during the unveiling of its new sporty compact Honda CR-Z hybrid model. He provided no further details. In December 1999, Honda became the first car company to introduce [...]Generous New Federal Incentives Could Put CNG Vehicles on the Map
Last week, a bipartisan coalition of 133 House members signed on to co-sponsor the latest incarnation of the NAT GAS Act, which would provide credits for consumers, OEMs, fleet operators and filling station owners to encourage the adoption of compressed and liquified natural gas vehicles. The legislation was first introduced several years ago—thanks largely to [...]New Honda Fit Will Debut at NY Auto Show
Honda is introducing an all-new redesigned version of its highly successful subcompact car, the Fit. Already on sale in Japan, as well as other places around the world, the 2009 model will make its American debut at the New York Auto Show later this week. It is expected to show up in dealerships in April. [...]Exclusive Interview: Honda Plots Its Green Car Roadmap
Despite its investment in hybrids, electric cars, fuel cell vehicles and the compressed natural gas Civic GX, Honda has earned a reputation for a string of green car missteps. The Accord Hybrid flopped; the redesigned Honda Insight didn’t go mainstream; and the Honda CR-Z coupe’s sporty-efficient combination was panned by auto critics. Yet, the company [...]October 2009 Dashboard: Hybrid Sales Regain Momentum
> Subscribe to the HybridCars.com Market Dashboard October 2009 Hybrid Car Sales Numbers For October, we offer an abbreviated version of our Hybrid Market Dashboard. The full dashboard, with geo-based data, will return in December. As we approach the end of 2009—the worst year for overall auto sales in decades—the picture for this year’s hybrid [...]Could Honda CR-Z Be The World's First Sexy Hybrid?
Honda’s new CR-Z hybrid coupe is schedule to hit dealerships in the UK and USA at about the same time this summer. But while the Honda CR-Z has so far remained under the radar in America, the small sporty hybrid is garnering a lot of positive press on the other side of the pond. We [...]