A common theme across Honda's newest priority-planning session is: "ambitious".
Why?
Because, just a few days, CEO Takahiro Hachigo laid out the automaker's intentions to boast hybrid and electric technology in two-thirds of its global sales by around the 2030--that's only 15 years. In auto industry time, that's nothing. And with just a few hybrid/green vehicles currently offered in Greenville, NC, it surely is a bold plan.
But Mr. Hachigo, once a lead engineer for models like the Odyssey minivan and the CR-V crossover, is confident that they can deliver.
Among his plans to truly break into the hybrid segment, he's expressed a desire to better align research & development teams. For too long, he says, they had been stretched too thin and in too many directions. Appointing new leadership is "intended to position R&D at the center of all product development, and make it responsible for the design and performance of each and every vehicle"--which means that Honda's engineers will have greater freedom to concentrate on the quality of technology, rather than the quantity.
The team at Barbour-Hendrick Honda Greenville is sure excited for these great new developments to come about. But if you can't wait 15 years for a new car, you may be interested in one of our available and fuel-efficient new Honda models currently in stock.
