Honda to sell EV and plug-in hybrid
Honda will start selling an electric vehicle as well as a plug-in hybrid in 2012 in the U.S. and Japan, joining a race to manufacture green cars in which its rivals have already taken slight leads.
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| Tokyo-based Honda, Japan's No. 2 automaker, makes the Insight and CR-Z hybrids but had not previously given concrete plans for a plug-in or electric vehicle. Under its new strategy, Honda will resume preparations for its Yorii plant in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, to begin production in 2013 and focus on green models. It dropped a plan to build a plant in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, it said. Ito denied Honda was ever uninterested in electric vehicles, or EVs, as was the impression among some. Toshiyuki Fukuda, a freelance auto writer, remained skeptical about whether Honda's EV and plug-in would be successful because the automaker did not offer enough information. "The plan is for a product that is just two years away," he said. "Maybe it just wants to ride on the EV boom." |
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