Electric car

HONDA is to launch an electric car in 2012 in the US and Japan, joining the green motoring race in the wake of its rivals.

Electric car

“Honda has no future unless we achieve significant reduction in CO2 emissions,” President Takanobu Ito said today. “The next 10 years will be a true test for Honda’s survival.”

Ito declined to give details of the car and a plug-in hybrid also planned, including the batteries — the key component — they would use, but said green technology was becoming increasingly important.

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