Honda
Honda Ditches Go-It-Alone Strategy to Make Safer Move Toward EVs
Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe. (Shoko Takayasu/Bloomberg News)
Honda Motor Co. long eschewed big strategic alliances, preferring to go it alone even as many of its carmaking peers banded to improve economies of scale. That strategy is changing now that the Japanese automaker is shifting more aggressively to electric vehicles.
July 20, 2021Honda Beefs Up Pickup, SUVs to Bolster Light-Truck Market Share
2021 Honda Ridgeline (Honda)
Honda Motor Co. plans to revamp three key midsized vehicles — two sport utilities and a pickup — by giving them beefier looks. It also will play up their off-road capabilities in marketing to appeal to more-traditional truck buyers.
October 9, 2020GM Signs Deal With Honda to Develop Future Products
GM and Honda have reached a deal to share vehicle platforms and technology. (Associated Press)
General Motors and Honda have a deal to share vehicle platforms and technology in North America starting next year.
September 3, 2020Japanese Carmaker Honda Hit by Cyberattack
A long row of unsold cars sits at a Honda dealership in Colorado June 7 (David Zalubowski/Associated Press)
Japanese carmaker Honda said June 9 that it has been hit by a cyberattack that disrupted its business in several countries, though it expects the overall impact to be contained.
June 9, 2020GM, Honda Partner to Build Honda EVs in GM Plants
The GM Flint Assembly plant in Flint, Mich., on March 23. (Anthony Lanzilote/Bloomberg News)
General Motors Co. and Honda Motor Co. announced an agreement April 2 to jointly develop two new electric vehicles for Honda that will be based on GM’s global electric-vehicle platform that’s powered by the Detroit automaker’s Ultium battery system.
April 3, 2020Toyota, Honda Extend China Shutdowns as Virus Gathers Pace
Employees work on a Honda auto plant assembly line in Wuhan in November 2019. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. were among carmakers extending shutdowns at their China plants as the country steps up measures to fight the deadly coronavirus.
February 7, 2020Honda, Others Evacuate Workers as Coronavirus Takes Its Toll on Industry
People wearing masks walk on a street in the Kwun Tong district of Hong Kong, China, on Jan. 23. (Paul Yeung/Bloomberg News)
Global companies including Honda Motor Co. and Groupe PSA are evacuating workers from areas of China hardest hit by a deadly viral outbreak.
January 27, 2020Toyota, Honda Recall 6 Million Vehicles for Faulty Air Bags
The 2016 Toyota Avalon, shown here at the Chicago Auto Show in 2015, is included in the recall. (Andrew A. Nelles/Associated Press)
The Toyota recall concerns air bags that may not inflate; the Honda recall covers air bags that may hurl shrapnel at drivers and passengers.
January 22, 2020