{"id":568986,"date":"2010-05-18T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=57104"},"modified":"2010-05-18T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T21:22:44","slug":"honda-%e2%80%9clacks-confidence%e2%80%9d-in-electric-car-demand-still-plans-to-offer-evs-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568986","title":{"rendered":"Honda \u201clacks confidence\u201d in electric-car demand, still plans to offer EVs in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The head of research at Honda said that the company remains skeptical about electric-cars 10 years after it has stopped selling the EV-Plus battery-powered model. Nonetheless, the second-largest Japanese automaker plans to offer electric-vehicles in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lack confidence\u201d in the electric-vehicle business, Tomohiko Kawanabe, president of Honda’s research and development said. \u201cIt’s questionable whether consumers will accept the annoyances of limited driving range and having to spend time charging them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kawanabe said that Honda still plans to sell electric-cars in the United States to meet California emission rules, but its top priority is to improve fuel-efficiency of its current models.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are definitely conducting research on electric cars, but I can’t say I can wholeheartedly recommend them,\u201d said Kawanabe.<\/p>\n

On the other hand Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn says that he expects 10 percent of the global car market to be electric-vehicles by 2020.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: Pictured above is the Honda EV-N Concept<\/a> that made its debut at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show.<\/p>\n

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– By: Kap Shah<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: Automotive News <\/a>(Subscription Required)<\/p>\n

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Honda EV-N Concept The head of research at Honda said that the company remains skeptical about electric-cars 10 years after it has stopped selling the EV-Plus battery-powered model. Nonetheless, the second-largest Japanese automaker plans to offer electric-vehicles in the United States. \u201cWe lack confidence\u201d in the electric-vehicle business, Tomohiko Kawanabe, president of Honda’s research and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568986","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=568986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}