Takeo Fukui

Reduction in component size and manufacturing costs to improve hybrid affordability

05/20/2008, TORRANCE, Calif. -- Honda today announced additional details regarding its new small hybrid scheduled for introduction in early 2009, as part of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. CEO Takeo Fukui's mid-year address. An official name and full product details will be announced later this year.

TOKYO, Japan, May 21, 2008 – A new 3-year mid-term plan began in April of this year. The basic idea for this 3-year plan is to establish a corporate structure necessary to sustain our strengths and that will enable us to grow globally in the future, and begin such efforts initially under the leadership of our operations in Japan.

Two concrete directions are set as followings;

1) To create world-leading environmental technologies, bring them to life as products, and offer them to more customers.
2) To achieve a significant advancement toward the next generation of manufacturing systems which will enable Honda to create such advanced products.

01/13/2008, Detroit, Mich -- Good afternoon everyone. And thank you for joining us. This is the 5th straight year I have attended the North American International Auto Show. But whenever I come to Detroit I think back to my first visit in 1974.

I was a young engineer participating in an important emissions certification test for the Civic at the EPA lab in Ann Arbor. We believed that clean air was important for the future of life on this earth. And we made it a central focus of our product development efforts.

It was November 1974 and Civic became the first vehicle to pass the new standards of the U.S. Clean Air Act based solely on engine performance. But what I remember most ...was, that the EPA inspector congratulated me for achieving the industry's top rating for fuel economy.