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...As well the best-selling hybrid Toyota Prius and the all-electric Nissan Leaf, the list included the Honda Accord, the Honda Civic and the BMW 3-series....
...Honda wants two-thirds of its vehicles to be partly electric-powered by 2030, a goal that includes petrol/electric hybrids such as the Accord....
...The company also said it planned to produce about 1,000 units of its Accord sedan per year in Nigeria, which would be the first time for Honda to assemble automobiles in Africa....
...The accords, agreed this month, currently only cover individual taxpayers....
...The recall covers the 2005-2010 model year of Honda’s Accord compact, its 2007-2010 CR-V small SUV, 2005-2008 Element small SUV, 2005-2009 Odyssey people-carrier, and 2010 Spirior, the Chinese version of...
...The Camry has been the US’s top-selling saloon car for 13 of the past 14 years, with only Honda’s Accord coming close. The smaller Corolla is Toyota’s global bestseller....
...Yet, as 2010 draws to a close, Honda is looking back on a difficult year when it lost market share on both sides of the Atlantic, in spite of an overall recovery in automobile sales....
...Honda sold only 17,000 Insights worldwide, and discontinued the model in 2003. Honda also sold in the US a hybrid version of its Accord model, which it discontinued in 2007....
...According to Mr Fukui, to power a mid-size Accord sedan to its current refuelling range of about 600km, “two thirds of the car would have to be a battery”....
...“Honda engineers have decided that the break-even point for hybrid cars is somewhere between the Civic and the Accord,” Mr Endo says....
...The Ur-Saab, built in 1946, was one of the first cars to be tested in a wind tunnel, for example, and was as aerodynamic as a modern-day Honda Accord....
...Honda, after discontinuing its slow-selling hybrid Accord, is developing an all-new model due to launch in 2009, which many analysts expect to sell well....
...Honda last week said it was discontinuing production of a hybrid version of its mid-size Accord, US sales of which have trailed behind Toyota’s top-selling Prius....
...Honda’s Civic and Accord and the Toyota Corolla were all more popular last year than the Chevrolet Impala, GM’s top-seller....
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