October 7, 2008
PARIS – Honda's new Insight Concept shares styling cues with the Honda FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle and provides an early look at the highly anticipated five-passenger hybrid vehicle.
Tags: concept car, Honda, Honda Insight, Paris Auto Show
September 24, 2008
TOKYO, Japan --- Honda Motor Co. Ltd. announced it will begin using its new third-generation pedestrian dummy, POLAR III, in vehicle-to-pedestrian crash tests before the end of this year.
Tags: Honda, vehicle-to-pedestrian crash tests
June 18, 2008
TORRANCE, CA --- American Honda last week released position statements discouraging the use of salvage or recycled parts to repair Honda or Acura vehicles that have been damaged in a collision.
Tags: Honda, salvage parts
April 8, 2008
NEW YORK – Forbes.com recently ranked the greenest vehicles in the United States, focusing on the companies accounting for 95 percent of all new vehicles sold in 2007. Rankings were based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Tags: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, greenest vehicles , Honda, Hyundai, SmartWay , Toyota
April 4, 2008
NEW YORK – California regulators have realized that manufacturers won't be able to make as many hydrogen-fueled cars by 2014 as regulators had once hoped, according to Forbes.
Tags: Ford, chrysler, GM, Honda, mandate, Nissan, plug-in hybrids, Regulations, Toyota, zero emission vehicles, ZEV
February 12, 2008
TORRANCE, CA - Gunnar Lindstrom, who has spearheaded Honda’s NGV program the past several years, who retired February 1st.
Tags: NGVAmerica, Gunnar Lindstrom, Honda
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By Mike Antich Today, Oct. 7, the Federal Reserve Board announced that it is invoking emergency powers to create a special fund to support the U.S. commercial paper market. The announcement by the Federal Reserve allows corporations to bypass the current credit gridlock gripping the nation’s economy. This has an impact on the fleet market since one source of financing for large fleets is the commercial paper market.
By Mike Antich Reducing unnecessary idling is the simplest and easiest way for a fleet to reduce fuel costs. Besides wasting fuel, excess idling also causes unnecessary emissions, noise pollution, and needless engine wear-and-tear. The amount of unnecessary idling varies by fleet, but some fleets have recorded idling as much as 35 percent of the time.
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