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Honda’s Top-Selling CR-V to Go Exclusively Hybrid Next Year
Honda says the new two-motor system will improve standard power and efficiency by more than 10 percent.
- On Thursday, Honda announced that the 2028 CR-V will be available exclusively as a gas-electric hybrid when the seventh-generation model debuts in 2027.
- Hybrids accounted for 53% of CR-V sales last month, demonstrating strong consumer demand that prompted the automaker to shift the top-selling crossover to an exclusively hybrid powertrain.
- The new platform improves rigidity and lightness while the updated two-motor system pairs with an Atkinson-cycle engine to boost fuel economy by more than 10 percent.
- Honda is investing $3 billion in a new Ohio production facility to manufacture next-generation hybrid vehicles and meet rising consumer demand for efficient crossovers.
- The company plans to introduce 15 new hybrid models by 2030, following Toyota's hybrid-only shift with the RAV4 as automakers compete for market share in the growing electrified segment.
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Honda’s Top-Selling CR-V to Go Exclusively Hybrid Next Year
Honda Motor Co. plans to offer its top-selling model in the US, the CR-V crossover, solely as a gas-electric hybrid starting next year, expanding the company’s push into the increasingly popular category.
·New York, United States
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America's Best-Selling SUV Is Going Full and Only Hybrid From 2027
The seventh generation of America's best-selling SUV, the Honda CR-V, is on its way, and we now know for a fact that it is coming in 2027 as a 2028 model year. And we also know that the model is going full hybrid on the North American market, because it seems that's what the Japanese think local customers want. The upcoming (continue reading...)
·Bucharest, Romania
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