----- Original Message ----- From: Peter C. Thompson via EV <[email protected]> To: [email protected]@lists.evdl.org Sent: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:09:05 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: [EVDL] Portable EVSE: Turning over a new Leaf...
On 12/14/14, 1:51 PM, Chris Tromley via EV wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Mark Abramowitz <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Dec 14, 2014, at 6:24 AM, Chris Tromley via EV <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Honda in >>> particular sees itself as an engine company. EVs are seen as a threat to >>> the status quo. >> Where can I find that information? >> > I've never seen it addressed directly as a main topic of discussion, but > throughout my decades of following the auto industry it has been referenced > countless times > from a broad variety of sources > . From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda, comes this typical remark: > > " > Honda, despite being known as an engine company, > ..." And this: > > " > Honda has been the > ... > world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine> measured by > volume, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each > year. > > > " > > From *The Causes of Structural Unemployment...* by Thomas Janoski, while > discussing Toyota he adds this casual aside: > > "... the company strategy is long-term and focused on automobiles (unlike > Honda, which sees itself as an engine company doing automobiles, lawn > mowers, jet engines and other products)." > > From > http://www.torquenews.com/1083/2014-honda-accord-plug-hybrid-and-2014-2014-fit-ev-help-us-see-where-electric-car-market-going > comes this toss-off: " > Honda always prided itself as being a motor company. > " > > From *Honda: an American Success Story...* by Robert Shook, " > Honda is neither an automobile nor a motorcycle company, but an engine > company > ." > > From an article in the *Reading Eagle* newspaper on Honda's 50th > anniverwsary, "Yet Honda has always considered itself first and foremost as > an engine company." > > These were just from a single Google search. I could go on ad nauseum, but > you get the idea. > > Chris >>Interesting. Yet they are also very involved with standards for >>electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. I see them all the time in our >>groups that deal with EV charging. I suspect they are trying to branch out. >>Cheers, Peter May be they will branch out into building electric motors for EVs? regards hg _ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
