{"id":180368,"date":"2010-01-14T13:35:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T18:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=48934"},"modified":"2010-01-14T13:35:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T18:35:39","slug":"honda-ceo-we-will-be-adding-hybrids-to-the-acura-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/180368","title":{"rendered":"Honda CEO: We will be adding hybrids to the Acura brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48935 aligncenter\" title=\"Acura ZDX\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/acura_zdx_main_a.jpg\" alt=\"Acura ZDX\" width=\"563\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During Honda&#8217;s press conference at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, CEO Takanobu Ito confirmed that the Japanese automaker will be adding hybrids to its Acura brand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, due to the business conditions and to focus on reducing CO2 emissions, we re-focused some of our product development resources,&#8221; Ito said. &#8220;Now, I&#8217;m pleased to say that we will be adding hybrids to the Acura brand. And based on my history in developing several Acura products, I have strong confidence in our ability to advance the Acura brand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Ito admitted that fuel-cell electric vehicles are the best way to reduce CO2 emissions, he feels that in the near term, the most important approach is to use gasoline hybrid vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To increase the opportunity for more customers to choose a hybrid we must be able to meet different needs with family, luxury and sporty hybrid vehicles,&#8221; said Ito. &#8220;We will apply hybrid systems which are compact, lightweight and affordable to a wider range of products in the near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZVAx79ZwZeHu4LoVuoGlMPCvqq4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZVAx79ZwZeHu4LoVuoGlMPCvqq4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZVAx79ZwZeHu4LoVuoGlMPCvqq4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZVAx79ZwZeHu4LoVuoGlMPCvqq4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=WuaeR9tlNQs:dNjKuJZGPOk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=WuaeR9tlNQs:dNjKuJZGPOk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=WuaeR9tlNQs:dNjKuJZGPOk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=WuaeR9tlNQs:dNjKuJZGPOk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=WuaeR9tlNQs:dNjKuJZGPOk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=WuaeR9tlNQs:dNjKuJZGPOk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=WuaeR9tlNQs:dNjKuJZGPOk:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Honda&#8217;s press conference at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, CEO Takanobu Ito confirmed that the Japanese automaker will be adding hybrids to its Acura brand. &#8220;Last year, due to the business conditions and to focus on reducing CO2 emissions, we re-focused some of our product development resources,&#8221; Ito said. &#8220;Now, I&#8217;m pleased to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}