The company Honda has a history of producing quality cars, motorcycles, scooters, trucks, robots, jets and jet engines, ATV, watercraft and many other important technologies. An interesting historical feature of the Honda company is the creation of a Honda engine. Honda is the largest engine manufacturer in the world, built with more than 14 million engines per year.
After the Second World War, Soichiro Honda, the Honda Research Institute Company Ltd., based in Japan. In 1947, the A-Honda-built engine, a 1-PS 50 cc two-stroke, fixed the bike. Honda employees called the “chimney” because of their high cylinder. In September 1948, Honda Motor Co. was formally established.
The first production car was the Honda mini-T360 pickup was powered by a small 356 cc gasoline engine -4. The first production vehicle was the Honda S500 sports car. In 1961, when the engines larger Volvo model 122-S-Series B-18 were built engine. In 1965, a race car Honda with a 12 cylinder engine built facilities.
In 1973, founded the Ford Motor Company in an agreement with Honda Motor Company in technical data to a new engine that would reduce air pollution to obtain. They created the first machine with the guidelines of 1970 U. S. Clean Air Act to comply.
Reported in 1991 7000 Honda CRX HF-sold cars where Honda engine computers and sensors used in the action of valve and the air fuel control. The objective was to increase the amount of air into the mixture to 20 parts to 1 part gasoline.
In May 1999 Honda announced that it would be their new Formula 1 engines to supply British American Racing. The highlight was the announcement that Honda engineers developed an engine oil separators that had developed integrated into the engine. Also in 1999, launched the first commercial electric car hybrid electric Honda hybrid, which was sold in the United States as the Honda Insight. The first generation Insight was produced in 2000 and 2006. This was the most fuel efficient vehicles to standard time. In 2000, Honda began mass production of clean high-performance engines.
The Honda Civic GX is the only natural gas vehicle (NGV) in some places in the United States. In 2001, the Civic GX is rated the cleanest internal combustion engine in the world by the Environmental Protection Agency, U. S.?.
In 2006, Honda announced that it would be a $ 154 million engine plant near Alliston, Ontario, Canada to build. This is the first machine in Canada. End of 2006, Honda launched its Brazilian subsidiary, Flex Fuel versions of the Honda Civic and Honda Fit. These models work with a mixture of hydrated ethanol (E100) and E20-E25 gasoline.
Introduction of the second generation of the Honda Insight in Japan in February 2009. It is the cheapest hybrid vehicle available in the United States.
Since 2002, Honda sold the Honda Civic Hybrid (2003 model) in the United States. It was developed by the Honda Accord Hybrid, which has followed from 2005 to 2007 models proposed. Honda also plans a hybrid version of the Honda Fit putting in place, and another small hybrid vehicle based on the unique sports car CR-Z, which was unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show 2007.
Honda has a proud history of building solid motors. It will be interesting to see what the future will bring the Honda engine.