Interesting, though not too surprising, given their start in motorcycles, and moving out from there. What I found surprising was the comment that they see EVs as a threat.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 14, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Chris Tromley <[email protected]> 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 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141214/9741ec0c/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
