CEO Profiles: Honda’s Takahiro Hachigo
The prestigious Honda Motor Company has seen quite a few leaders come and go in the past 30 years. With Takahiro Hachigo as the eighth president of the company, many are hoping he can be decisive and creative enough to efficiently get the company headed in a more positive direction. Background Takahiro Hachigo was born […]
Red Bull Officially Confirms Honda Switch
Red Bull has officially confirmed it will switch to Honda power units from the 2019 Formula One season, marking the end of the team’s 12-year partnership with Renault. Though Red Bull management had said it would not announce a decision before the Austrian Grand Prix, its early decision suggests the rumors that the team had […]
Honda Wants Partners to Tackle EV Future, Not Tie-Ups
Honda CEO Takahiro Hachigo says the company will not adopt a common strategy among other car brands for tackling the rapidly approaching era of change in the auto industry. “We do have a sense of crisis, he told Automotive News. “Things are changing drastically. So we should not be late in responding. But,” he added, […]
Honda Reveals Delightfully Futuristic Retro Urban EV Concept at Frankfurt Auto Show
Honda has had an interesting history with electric vehicles, particularly earlier this year when it introduced the NeuV Concept at CES 2017, an autonomous electric city car that was mostly a glass box, would earn money for you while you weren’t driving it, and could read your emotions using an AI called HANA. Now, Honda […]
Where the Top 10 Companies are with Self-Driving Cars
With so many major car manufacturers and tech companies in the self-driving car race, it’s hard to keep up with each one’s progress. Each one has a different proposed release date for their self-driving car contribution. Some manufacturers have modified those proposed release dates based on how fast or slow the technology development and design […]
Honda Announces Plans to Introduce Self-Driving Cars by 2025
Today Honda announced its intentions to introduce vehicles with “Level 4” highly automated driving systems installed by the year 2025 (if mankind is still alive…) This comes after an earlier announcement that Honda and Acura vehicles will feature “Level 3” highly-automated freeway driving capability by 2020. Honda says both targets are crucial to the automaker’s […]
All-New Honda CR-V Hybrid Debuts at Auto Shanghai
Today at Auto Shanghai 2017, Honda exhibited the world premiere of the CR-V Hybrid, the brand’s all-new SUV model for the Chinese market. The Honda CR-V Hybrid features a Honda Sport Hybrid i-MMD two-motor hybrid system, as well as a full complement of features that includes the Honda Sensing suite of safety technologies. The new model […]
Honda Announces Plans to Manufacture New Dedicated Hybrid Model in US
During its presentation today at the 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Honda announced plans to build a new dedicated hybrid model in America and launch the vehicle nationwide in 2018. The as-yet unnamed hybrid is part of the Honda Electrification Initiative, which seeks to expand the Japanese automaker’s portfolio of electrified vehicles. […]
Honda Promotes First-Ever Female Operating Officer
In an effort to further diversify its top executives, Honda Motor Co. today named its first-ever female operating officer, Asako Suzuki. Suzuki is presently the president of Dongfeng Honda Automobile Co., one of the Japanese automaker’s joint ventures in China. When she assumes the role of operating officer this April, Suzuki will become the first […]
Honda CEO Doesn’t Own a Car, but Would Really Like a Civic Type R
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Honda’s new CEO, Takahiro Hachigo, is spearheading an ambitious effort to make English the official language of the automaker’s interregional communications. It may seem odd for a Japanese CEO to want his Japanese company to use English as its work language, but there’s something even more ironic you should know about Hachigo: he’s a car […]
New Honda President and CEO Announced
Amid a series of recalls in Japan, Honda president and CEO Takanobu Ito took the first steps toward automotive seppuku when he accepted a voluntary pay cut for his transgressions back in October 2014. Now his long, ritualistic suicide is complete, as Honda announced today that Ito will be stepping down in April to be […]
Honda Adopting English as Official Work Language
It seems that the Honda Motor Company is pulling a reverse-Vapors, with new CEO Hachigo Takahiro announcing that the Japanese company will be adopting English as the official language of its interregional communications. This marks a radical departure for the company; as just five years ago, former CEO Takanobu Ito said it would be “stupid” […]