The Civic hybrid will join CR-V and Accord in Honda’s expanding hybrid-electric line-up as a 2025 model. Civic hybrid production will start with the sedan in Canada, followed by the hatchback in Indiana; the two-motor hybrid electric system is made in Ohio.* (AutoInformed: Honda Shows Prototype Electric Autonomous Work Mower; Honda Prologue EV Losing Vapor Ware Status)
“Our associates are proud to play an important role in the Honda electrification strategy by adding production of the new Civic hybrid to the CR-V hybrid we now build,” said Roxanna Metz, plant co-lead of the Indiana Auto Plant. “Sales of Honda hybrid models already represent more than one-quarter of our sales in the U.S. and we are proud to help our customers transition to the electrified future with our ‘made in Indiana’ products.”
Honda estimates that ~56% of US sales of the Honda CR-V and Accord are hybrid-electric versions. More than one-quarter of Honda’s total U.S. sales are electrified models, marking the most hybrids ever sold by the brand. Honda forecasts that Civic hybrid sales will represent more than 40% of Civic sales.
Honda’s stated global goal is to achieve carbon neutrality for all products and corporate activities by 2050. Honda wants to make battery-electric and fuel cell electric vehicles represent 100% of its new vehicle sales by 2040. Sales of EVs will begin in 2024, with the 2024 Honda Prologue, Honda’s first all-electric SUV. In 2025, a mid- to large-size EV model based on Honda’s dedicated e:Architecture will go on sale.
Honda has announced steps in the establishment of its EV Hub in Ohio that will lead to production of EVs in North America. In October 2022, Honda said it would invest $700 million to retool several of its existing auto and powertrain plants to establish the new EV Hub in Ohio to prepare for the production of battery electric vehicles in 2025. The Marysville Auto Plant (MAP), where Honda began auto production in America in 1982, will be the first Honda auto plant in the U.S. to transition to EV manufacturing.
The new EV Hub includes a new joint venture EV battery plant being established by Honda and LG Energy Solution in Fayette County, near Jeffersonville, Ohio. The new JV facility is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024 with an annual production capacity of approximately 40 GWh. (AutoInformed: Honda, LG Energy Solution Break Ground for New Battery Plant)
Honda Manufacturing in North America
Honda has produced automobiles in North America for over 40 years, beginning in November 1982 at the Marysville Auto Plant. Honda began manufacturing operations in North America in 1979 with motorcycle production in Marysville, Ohio.
During the past four decades, Honda has steadily increased local, non-UAW represented production capabilities and now employs more than 33,000 associates in North America who support manufacturing operations at Honda’s 18 plants with the annual capacity to produce 1.86 million automobiles, ~4 million engines, 500,000 power equipment products and 300,000 powersports products, as well as the HondaJet advanced light jet and GE Honda HF120 turbofan engines. During 2022, more than 99% of all US-sold Honda and Acura automobiles were made in North America, using domestic and globally sourced parts.
Cumulatively, Honda said it has invested more than $24 billion in its North American manufacturing capabilities, including more than $4.7 billion over the past five years alone. The company works with more than 700 original equipment suppliers in North America with cumulative parts purchases of more than $562 billion.
*Production of the new Civic hybrid sedan will begin in spring 2024 at Honda of Canada Mfg. (HCM) in Alliston, Ontario. This will be followed shortly by the hatchback, which will be manufactured at the Indiana Auto Plant (IAP) in Greensburg, Indiana, with the two-motor hybrid-electric power unit to be built by the Honda Transmission Plant in Ohio and the 2.0-liter Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder engine made at the Anna Engine Plant in Ohio. Both HCM and IAP already support production of the Honda CR-V hybrid.
About Ken Zino
Ken Zino, editor and publisher of AutoInformed, is a versatile auto industry participant with global experience spanning decades in print and broadcast journalism, as well as social media. He has automobile testing, marketing, public relations and communications experience. He is past president of The International Motor Press Assn, the Detroit Press Club, founding member and first President of the Automotive Press Assn. He is a member of APA, IMPA and the Midwest Automotive Press Assn.
He also brings an historical perspective while citing their contemporary relevance of the work of legendary auto writers such as Ken Purdy, Jim Dunne or Jerry Flint, or writers such as Red Smith, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson – all to bring perspective to a chaotic automotive universe.
Above all, decades after he first drove a car, Zino still revels in the sound of the exhaust as the throttle is blipped during a downshift and the driver’s rush that occurs when the entry, apex and exit points of a turn are smoothly and swiftly crossed. It’s the beginning of a perfect lap.
AutoInformed has an editorial philosophy that loves transportation machines of all kinds while promoting critical thinking about the future use of cars and trucks.
Zino builds AutoInformed from his background in automotive journalism starting at Hearst Publishing in New York City on Motor and MotorTech Magazines and car testing where he reviewed hundreds of vehicles in his decade-long stint as the Detroit Bureau Chief of Road & Track magazine. Zino has also worked in Europe, and Asia – now the largest automotive market in the world with China at its center.
Made In CA and US – Honda Civic Hybrid Back Next Year
“Our associates are proud to play an important role in the Honda electrification strategy by adding production of the new Civic hybrid to the CR-V hybrid we now build,” said Roxanna Metz, plant co-lead of the Indiana Auto Plant. “Sales of Honda hybrid models already represent more than one-quarter of our sales in the U.S. and we are proud to help our customers transition to the electrified future with our ‘made in Indiana’ products.”
Honda estimates that ~56% of US sales of the Honda CR-V and Accord are hybrid-electric versions. More than one-quarter of Honda’s total U.S. sales are electrified models, marking the most hybrids ever sold by the brand. Honda forecasts that Civic hybrid sales will represent more than 40% of Civic sales.
Honda’s stated global goal is to achieve carbon neutrality for all products and corporate activities by 2050. Honda wants to make battery-electric and fuel cell electric vehicles represent 100% of its new vehicle sales by 2040. Sales of EVs will begin in 2024, with the 2024 Honda Prologue, Honda’s first all-electric SUV. In 2025, a mid- to large-size EV model based on Honda’s dedicated e:Architecture will go on sale.
Honda has announced steps in the establishment of its EV Hub in Ohio that will lead to production of EVs in North America. In October 2022, Honda said it would invest $700 million to retool several of its existing auto and powertrain plants to establish the new EV Hub in Ohio to prepare for the production of battery electric vehicles in 2025. The Marysville Auto Plant (MAP), where Honda began auto production in America in 1982, will be the first Honda auto plant in the U.S. to transition to EV manufacturing.
The new EV Hub includes a new joint venture EV battery plant being established by Honda and LG Energy Solution in Fayette County, near Jeffersonville, Ohio. The new JV facility is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024 with an annual production capacity of approximately 40 GWh. (AutoInformed: Honda, LG Energy Solution Break Ground for New Battery Plant)
Honda Manufacturing in North America
Honda has produced automobiles in North America for over 40 years, beginning in November 1982 at the Marysville Auto Plant. Honda began manufacturing operations in North America in 1979 with motorcycle production in Marysville, Ohio.
During the past four decades, Honda has steadily increased local, non-UAW represented production capabilities and now employs more than 33,000 associates in North America who support manufacturing operations at Honda’s 18 plants with the annual capacity to produce 1.86 million automobiles, ~4 million engines, 500,000 power equipment products and 300,000 powersports products, as well as the HondaJet advanced light jet and GE Honda HF120 turbofan engines. During 2022, more than 99% of all US-sold Honda and Acura automobiles were made in North America, using domestic and globally sourced parts.
Cumulatively, Honda said it has invested more than $24 billion in its North American manufacturing capabilities, including more than $4.7 billion over the past five years alone. The company works with more than 700 original equipment suppliers in North America with cumulative parts purchases of more than $562 billion.
*Production of the new Civic hybrid sedan will begin in spring 2024 at Honda of Canada Mfg. (HCM) in Alliston, Ontario. This will be followed shortly by the hatchback, which will be manufactured at the Indiana Auto Plant (IAP) in Greensburg, Indiana, with the two-motor hybrid-electric power unit to be built by the Honda Transmission Plant in Ohio and the 2.0-liter Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder engine made at the Anna Engine Plant in Ohio. Both HCM and IAP already support production of the Honda CR-V hybrid.
About Ken Zino
Ken Zino, editor and publisher of AutoInformed, is a versatile auto industry participant with global experience spanning decades in print and broadcast journalism, as well as social media. He has automobile testing, marketing, public relations and communications experience. He is past president of The International Motor Press Assn, the Detroit Press Club, founding member and first President of the Automotive Press Assn. He is a member of APA, IMPA and the Midwest Automotive Press Assn. He also brings an historical perspective while citing their contemporary relevance of the work of legendary auto writers such as Ken Purdy, Jim Dunne or Jerry Flint, or writers such as Red Smith, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson – all to bring perspective to a chaotic automotive universe. Above all, decades after he first drove a car, Zino still revels in the sound of the exhaust as the throttle is blipped during a downshift and the driver’s rush that occurs when the entry, apex and exit points of a turn are smoothly and swiftly crossed. It’s the beginning of a perfect lap. AutoInformed has an editorial philosophy that loves transportation machines of all kinds while promoting critical thinking about the future use of cars and trucks. Zino builds AutoInformed from his background in automotive journalism starting at Hearst Publishing in New York City on Motor and MotorTech Magazines and car testing where he reviewed hundreds of vehicles in his decade-long stint as the Detroit Bureau Chief of Road & Track magazine. Zino has also worked in Europe, and Asia – now the largest automotive market in the world with China at its center.