News Releases 2017
- Honda Motor Europe announces ‘Electric Vision’
- Hybrid, plug-in hybrid, battery electrified and fuel cell cars to make up two thirds of Honda’s European sales by 2025
- Very first product featuring two-motor hybrid system to be launched in Europe in 2018
Honda Motor Europe’s President and COO, Katsushi Inoue, has exposed key details of the brand’s fresh ‘Electric Vision’. Speaking at the two thousand seventeen Geneva Motor Display, Inoue-san outlined Honda’s commitment to an electrical future in Europe, with a specific aim to have electrified powertrains in two thirds of European cars sold by 2025. The announcement confirms that Europe is at the forefront of Honda’s global electrified vehicle strategy.
Announcing the strategy in Geneva today, Inoue-san said: “We will leverage Honda’s global R&D resources to accelerate the introduction of a total portfolio of advanced, electrified powertrains for the European customer.”
Honda’s concentrate on electrification in Europe will primarily be driven by a roll-out of hybrid technology across its automobile range. The very first fresh hybrid model, which will feature Honda’s two-motor hybrid system, will go on sale in 2018.
Honda will also make plug-in hybrid, battery electrical and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles commercially available to European customers.
Honda’s Clarity Fuel Cell model will be showcased at Geneva, following the arrival of the very first cars in Europe at the end of last year. The Clarity Fuel Cell is the world’s most advanced fuel cell vehicle and produces a class-leading maximum range of seven hundred km (435miles)*
The arrival of Clarity Fuel Cell in Europe as part of the Europe-wide HyFIVE (Hydrogen For Innovative Vehicles) initiative reinforces Honda’s commitment to drive the adoption of fuel cell vehicles and the creation of a viable hydrogen refuelling infrastructure across the region.
The announcement of the electrical vehicle strategy for Europe comes just weeks after Honda was confirmed as the fastest growing mainstream car brand in the region in 2016. The full-year data from European industry figure ACEA shows that total sales for Honda in EU and EFTA countries in two thousand sixteen were 159,126 units to the end of December, an increase of 20.8% per cent compared to same period in 2015. Honda’s growth significantly outpaced the results for the EU passenger car market as a entire, which witnessed a year-on-year increase of 6.8% per cent.
* Honda in-house test result based on NEDC driving cycle