Honda News
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A Honda Odyssey Hybrid minivan goes on sale in Japan this week.
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2017 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell Priced 'Around $60,000,' CA Launch Before End Of Year
Honda says it will begin leasing the Clarity Fuel Cell in California later this year.
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Honda, GM To Build Factory For Fuel-Cell Production By 2025
The cost of developing advanced zero-emission powertrains for future vehicles is substantial, even for the world's largest carmakers. Especially in hydrogen fuel-cell research, the biggest auto companies are doubling and tripling up to share the costs. Honda and GM said in July 2013 that they would...
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Honda To Cooperate With GM On Plug-In Hybrid Technology?
Honda and General Motors will reportedly cooperate on plug-in hybrid powertrains.
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Is Honda Accord Hybrid Gone? Yes, For A Year--But It'll Be Back
The Honda Accord Hybrid has the highest fuel-economy rating of any mid-size hybrid sedan: 47 mpg combined. That's better than any other competitor now on sale, including hybrid models of the Ford Fusion, Hyundai Sonata, Kia Optima, and Toyota Camry. But the hybrid Accord has quietly vanished from...
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China Emission Standards: So Tough Honda Will Have All Hybrids By 2025
Honda believes it won't be able to sell conventional internal-combustion engines in China by 2025.
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It's important to understand how important a car the Honda Civic compact sedan is in the U.S. market. Between the Civic sedan and its coupe sibling, Honda sells more than 300,000 of them a year--or roughly 20 times this year's sales of the Chevy Volt. The Civic nameplate is more than 40 years old, and it's stood for smart, relatively fuel-efficient entry-level transportation the whole time. DON'T MISS: Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2016 Chevrolet Volt But for 2016, Honda started with a clean sheet of paper to reinvent the Civic, following a reception best described as tepid...
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2017 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell At LA Auto Show: Video
The 2017 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell made its North American debut at the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show.
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Honda Clarity On Sale Late In 2016; Plug-In Hybrid To Get 40 Miles Of Range
The 2017 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell will go on sale in the U.S. in late 2016.
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2016 Honda CR-Z Soldiers On: Styling Updates, More Tech Features
The 2016 Honda CR-Z hybrid gets revised styling and more standard and available features.
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2017 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell Sedan: Live Photos, More Details From Tokyo
The 2017 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell as unveiled at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show.
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Honda's Electric Four-Motor CR-Z Prototype: We Drive It
The idea of the four-motor electric car has been around since the start of the 20th century. One of Ferdinand Porsche's first ideas, in fact, was the Lohner-Porsche that debuted at the 1900 Paris World Fair, with a hub motor in each front wheel. Toss four electric motors in a car and you could have...
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The 2017 Acura NSX will have a total system output of 573 horsepower.
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2018 Honda Plug-In Hybrid To Offer 40-Mile Range, Use Fuel-Cell Vehicle's Platform
The upcoming Honda dedicated plug-in hybrid will share a platform with the company's fuel-cell vehicle.
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Honda Clarity Fuel Cell May Be Its Electric Car And Plug-In Hybrid Too
Honda officially revealed the production version of its hydrogen fuel-cell sedan at the Tokyo Motor Show. The company released two photos late last month that show the car and its interior--which it said at the show will be called the Honda Clarity Fuel Cell--after released FCEV and FCV Concepts...
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Wringing Out Car-Making Efficiencies: Honda's 'Green Path' Detailed
It's well established by now that the energy required to extract raw materials and turn them into a finished car is considerably less than the energy that car will consume over its lifetime to move itself around. But that isn't stopping manufacturers from chipping away at the huge amounts of energy...
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Honda Tests Solar-Powered Electric-Car Charging In Remote Marshall Islands
Honda is testing solar-powered electric-car charging stations in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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2016 Honda Civic: First Drive Of New 35-MPG Compact Sedan
The 2016 Honda Civic may be the most radical redesign of the Civic in its 40-plus-year history. The tenth generation of the car that made Honda's reputation, both in North America and around the world, is longer, lower, and wider, with a racy fastback shape and its first mainstream turbocharged...
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Honda will install 120 electric-car charging stations at its U.S. headquarters.
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Honda Accord Hybrids Recalled For Software Fix
Honda Accord Hybrid sedans are recalled to address a software issue.
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Honda FCV Sedan Teased Ahead Of 2015 Tokyo Motor Show
The Honda FCV will be unveiled at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show.
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I Can't Buy A Honda Fit Hybrid In The U.S.; Can I Import One?
We occasionally run articles about "forbidden fruit," or cool and desirable cars sold overseas that aren't available in the U.S. With Honda down to a single hybrid vehicle for the 2016 model year--the aging and low-volume CR-Z two-seater--it turns out one reader is looking covetously at the...
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2016 Honda Civic Sedan: Sleek Lines, Turbo Engine, CVT For Efficiency
The redesigned 2016 Honda Civic sedan broke cover ahead of its arrival in U.S. showrooms later this year.
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2016 Honda HR-V Small Crossover Utility Gets Highest Safety Scores
The 2016 Honda HR-V received a "5-Star Overall Vehicle Score" from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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