Japanese automaker Honda Motor will purchase a 1% stake in Chinese electric vehicle (EV) battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) and the two will together develop EV batteries, the companies stated on Friday. The move comes at a time when automakers and EV battery makers are getting along to develop electric vehicles. CATL said last […]
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Japanese automakers’ May global sales declined 38% due to coronavirus
Japanese automakers’ global sales dropped 38% in May, in the third straight month of big declines as most automotive factories and dealerships remained shut because of coronavirus lockdowns. The country’s seven major automakers sold about 1.47 million vehicles last month, dropping significantly from 2.38 million units a year ago, according to Reuters calculations based on […]
Honda restarted production at plants hit by a suspected cyber attack
Japanese automaker Honda Motor has restarted production at automobile and motorcycle plants in the United States and other nations after they were hit by a suspected cyber attack this week, a spokesman stated on Friday. The suspected attack comes less than a month following the Honda reopening of North American vehicle assembly plants, after the […]
Toyota, Nissan and Honda gear up to restart Mexico plants
Japanese automakers Toyota, Nissan and Honda stated they are gradually resuming plants in Mexico as the country’s automotive industry reboots in line with a broader economic reopening, even though numbers of new coronavirus cases continue to increase. Mexican officials in mid-May stated the automotive industry could exit the coronavirus lockdown before June 1 if the […]
Honda profits drops to four-year low due to coronavirus
Honda Motor on Tuesday published its lowest operating profit in four years and refrained from providing an earnings outlook for 2020 due to uncertainty about the longer-term impact of the coronavirus on worldwide auto demand. Honda and other automakers have started to restart operations at their vehicle plants, but face weak demand as job losses […]
Honda will resume auto production in US, Canada from May 11
Honda Motor stated on Friday it will gradually restart production at U.S. and Canadian auto plants from May 11. The Japanese automaker, which postponed production on March 23, is also recalling all salaried and support workers who have been on furlough. Honda will enforce new safety requirements at its plants including temperature checks. No one will […]
Honda deploys its minivans to transport coronavirus patients in Japan
Honda Motor stated it has remodeled 50 of its minivans to transport COVID-19 patients to hospitals and quarantine centers in Japan, sealing off the rear section of the vehicles to safeguard drivers from infection. The automaker has placed an airtight divide between the motorist and the rear passenger areas of the vans and modified their […]
Honda extends Mexico plant suspensions to April 30 due to coronavirus
The Mexican unit of Honda Motor stated on Tuesday it would extend a suspension of operations at its plants in the states of Guanajuato and Jalisco until April 30 because of the increase of coronavirus outbreak. The Honda plants are located in Celaya, Guanajuato and El Salto, Jalisco. Earlier, the automaker had stated that their […]
Honda back to work in Wuhan with temperature checks and masks
Honda has resumed pre-virus production levels in the plant located in Wuhan, China after the country removed lockdown restrictions from the location. Temperature checkpoints and posters telling employees to keep more than a meter apart at Japanese automaker Honda Motor’s reopened plant in the Chinese city of Wuhan show how the coronavirus pandemic has created […]
Honda, Fiat Chrysler aim to restart Canada and US auto production in May
Honda Motor and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV stated on Monday they hope to resume U.S. and Canadian auto production in May, which has been closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Japanese automaker stopped production on March 23 and said it will extend the stop through May 1. Fiat Chrysler stated it aims “to […]
General Motors, Honda to develop two new electric vehicles together
General Motors and Honda Motor said on Thursday they would develop two new electric vehicles for Honda and are finding more ways to expand their alliance. The new vehicles will use GM batteries and be put together in GM plants in North America, the companies stated. Honda plans to start selling the vehicles in the […]
Honda extends North American auto plant shutdowns as coronavirus spreads
Honda Motor stated Thursday it will extend halt of all U.S. and Canadian auto plant production through April 10 and at its plant located in Celaya, central Mexico, until April 13, because of the coronavirus outbreak. The automaker’s plant in El Salto in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, will also suspend production operations between […]
Hyundai, Honda plants closed in Vietnam amid nationwide lockdown
Hyundai assembler TC Motor and Honda Vietnam have closed their plants for two weeks amid a nationwide social distancing campaign to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, the companies stated on Wednesday. Honda Vietnam will close both its motorbike and auto plants located in the northern province of Vinh Phuc until April 15, while TC Motor, Vietnam’s third biggest […]
Honda to provide 2,000 high-pressure backpack sprayer to Indian government agencies
Honda India Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of Honda group companies, on Wednesday declared that it will help the Indian government with Rs 11 crore ($1.4 million) aid for relief and prevention efforts to battle the spread of coronavirus. Furthermore, the company will also provide 2,000 units of high-pressure backpack sprayers to the various government […]
GAC Honda to merge Honda Automobile in China
GAC Honda Automobile also known as GAC Honda, a joint venture company of Japanese automaker in China, on Sunday stated that it will absorb its wholly-owned subsidiary, Honda Automobile (China), effective from April 1 this year. With this merger, the Honda China plant will be renamed as the Guangzhou Development District Factory of GAC Honda, said the company. The […]
