Honda USA

“American Honda Motor Co., Inc.” (AHM), the first foreign affiliate, was founded in 1959 in Los Angeles, California, by “Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Japan)”. Honda has been making economic contributions, creating jobs, and investing in its American operations for over 60 years. This has been made possible by the 30,000 associates, “developing, manufacturing, and selling” a wide range of products in the country.

Official Website: https://www.honda.com/

Honda Autos: https://automobiles.honda.com/

Honda USA Build (Build your Honda): https://automobiles.honda.com/tools/build-and-price

Honda USA News: https://hondanews.com/en-US https://automobiles.honda.com/news-and-events

Honda USA Customer Service: https://www.honda.com/contact https://automobiles.honda.com/information/customer-relations

Honda Service: https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/logon.aspx

Honda USA Offers (Autos): https://automobiles.honda.com/tools/current-offers

With co-founders Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. was founded, and its first developed product, the “Dream” D-type motorbike, was introduced in 1949.

The first car to be sold in America was the Honda N600. The Honda Civic is the first car to achieve the new “U.S. Clean Air Act’s stringent emissions regulations” without the need for a catalytic converter. In its class, the “Honda Insight” continued to be the “most fuel-efficient, non-plugin” car after 17 years of production.

“Honda USA” has provided support to students at “Historically Black Colleges and Universities” (HBCU) by way of programs like “Honda Battle of the Bands” and “Honda Campus All-Star Challenge”. “Honda USA” has contributed more than USD 14 million in funding to HBCU academic initiatives and facility upgrades.

The first large-scale full “hydrogen fuel cell” system manufacturing plant was founded by “General Motors and Honda” (50:50 joint venture) and is called “Fuel Cell System Manufacturing LLC” (FCSM). Both will make use of the cutting-edge hydrogen power options produced at FCSM.

In order to motivate smelters and refiners to take part in the “Responsible Minerals Assurance Process” (RMAP), Honda is collaborating with the “Responsible Minerals Initiative” (RMI), a global initiative that promotes responsible mineral purchase across the USA.

Honda’s accomplishments in IndyCar racing, including over 213 race wins, 10 Manufacturers’ Championships, and 15 Indianapolis 500 triumphs. In 2006, Honda secured their place as the only provider of IndyCar engines for 6 consecutive seasons, powering all 33 cars at the Indianapolis 500 without experiencing an engine failure — as stated at “hondaracing-us.honda.com”.

Modern training is offered by “Honda Professional Automotive Career Training” (PACT) to assist students in becoming certified technicians, these are in constant need at Honda and Acura car dealerships across the USA.

Over the course of its 23-year partnership with “The Ohio State University”, Honda has invested over $28 million in research efforts there.

The Central Ohio hub assists collaborations that strengthen and quicken the region’s already-existing “STEM Learning Network” initiatives. “Honda USA” is one of the many regional partners that the Central Ohio hub collaborates with.

Wild honeybees reside on vacant acreage at Honda Development & Manufacturing of the Americas‘ Ohio automobile production plant and “research and development” center. In order to safeguard the bees, Honda has constructed an apiary to facilitate study on bees and maintains a habitat of around 5 hectares.

The “U.S. Department of Transportation” awarded a Honda engineer the highest medal for “Safety Engineering Excellence” in 2023 for their revolutionary airbag design.

More than $2.7 million in funding was announced in 2023 by Honda and the “Honda USA Foundation”. Of this amount, $625,000 will be used to promote “The Nature Conservancy” (TNC) programs in 10 states, and a further $2 million will be given as grants to 67 organizations that are involved in environmental and conservation efforts in several states.

In 1982, Honda became the first Japanese carmaker to produce vehicles in the USA.

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The styling of the two fully electric SUVs that will hit the market in 2024, the “Honda Prologue” and the “Acura ZDX”, was spearheaded by Honda and Acura design offices in California.

According to Wards Intelligence figures for cumulative “U.S. light vehicle sales” among passenger cars from 1972 to September 2022, the Accord is the best-selling car in the USA over the past 50 years.

Six Honda models in all have received the IIHS “TOP SAFETY PICK” (TSP) rating or higher for 2023; with four of them — including the brand-new Honda Accord, HR-V, and CR-V — earned an enhanced rating “TOP SAFETY PICK+” (TSP+). The “Insurance Institute for Highway Safety” is known as IIHS.

More than two-thirds of the Honda and Acura cars sold in the USA in 2022 were produced at Honda’s American facilities.

Offering drivers the benefits of a fully-equipped car, the Clarity is the first vehicle in the world with three distinct electrified powertrain options — Clarity Fuel Cell, Clarity Plug-In Hybrid and Clarity Electric. The hydrogen-powered Clarity, discharges only water vapor, can go up to 366 miles on a “single fuel tank”, tank can be fully replenished in three to five minutes.

The 10th generation of USA’s best-selling automobile, the all-new 2018 Honda Accord, is the recipient of the esteemed “North American Car of the Year” title. Honda has now won the North American “of the Year” accolade third time in a row, after Civic (2016) and Ridgeline (2017).

Since April 2022, recycled aluminum sheets have been used for the car bodywork of a number of models, including the Civic, in North USA production plants.

Acura made its debut in the American Le Mans Series in 2007 and won the LMP2 class in the very first “12 Hours of Sebring race“. With the 10th generation Civic Coupe, Honda started to compete in the “Red Bull Global Rallycross” in 2016.

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“““With 12 production facilities (in 6 states) across the USA, Honda produces 5 million products a year. For the USA, Honda has 2550 R&D Associates, 33 types of cars and light trucks, 37 products for powersports, 50 products for power equipment, and Advanced Light HondaJet.

The most modern wind tunnel in the world, “Honda Automotive Laboratories of Ohio” (HALO), combines three cutting-edge testing capabilities in one location: racing, aerodynamics, and aeroacoustics.

In 2022, Honda associates in the USA received 209 patents, spanning the “mechanical, electrical, and chemical” domains. Honda oversaw the testing of linked car technologies along a “35-mile section of the Ohio highway” (known as the 33 Smart Mobility Corridor) in an effort to enhance traffic flow.

As of April 2024, Honda has shipped more than 1.4 million cars and light trucks from the USA to about 77 nations and territories. Honda bought $22.9 billion worth of goods and components from 600 USA suppliers (located in 33 states) in 2022. All 50 states have Honda product dealers, who provide jobs for 150,700 USA persons.

Over the last five years, Honda has invested $4.3 billion on its operations in the USA. Over 75% of Honda’s 30,000 American associates are employed in the manufacturing sector. 10,000 of jobs are generated in 33 states throughout the USA by Honda’s 600 OEM suppliers.

The “USA Environmental Protection Agency” awarded the “2021 ENERGY STAR Certification” for Outstanding Energy Efficiency to every Honda mass production auto facility in the USA and Canada.

In order to save customer costs and CO₂ emissions, Honda SmartCharge “calculates the optimal time” (by automatically adjusting to electric grid conditions) to charge a car. Participating drivers can get financial incentives. In 2023, a formal announcement of $3.5 billion investment from Honda and “LG Energy Solution” to construct a joint venture EV battery plant in Ohio, which will generate 2,200 employments in the state.

In the North USA, Honda oversees a water conservation fund that helps to maintain and enhance coastal regions for upcoming generations.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the USA has granted, in 2015, a Production Certificate to a new American company (Honda Aero: manufacturing jet engines) to build a jet engine, for the first time in twenty-three years.

The global headquarters of Honda Aircraft Company is located in Greensboro, where the “HondaJet Elite II” is produced. Burlington is home to “Honda Aero”, which produces the engines that propel the aircraft.

“Honda Performance Development, Inc.” is the engineering operations unit for Honda’s high-performance racing strategy. It was founded in 1993 and is based in Santa Clarita, California.

DiversityInc. has recognized “Honda USA” as one of the top 50 companies for diversity for “the second year in a row” in 2023. In the yearly rating, the company came in at number 48.

Honda is giving away more than $2 million in grants to 25 organizations in the USA that promote the safety of teen drivers.

Honda became the first significant car manufacturer in the USA in 2014 when it began sourcing a significant portion of its electricity from on-site wind turbines.

The “Honda Power Equipment Manufacturing, Inc.” (HPE) facility in Swepsonville, North Carolina, produces around 75% of the Honda power products supplied in the USA using components obtained both domestically and internationally””” — according to information found at “hondainamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/Honda-HIA-2023-INTERACTIVE-FINAL.pdf”, “honda.com/-/media/Honda-Homepage/PDF/DFB_2022_US_Sept_0912-consumer_V2.pdf” and “global.honda/en/sustainability/cq_img/report/pdf/2023/Honda-SR-2023-en-all.pdf”.

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