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Honda will invest $65 billion on its electrification strategy this decade as it expects demand for battery-powered vehicles will rebound from short-term headwinds.

TOKYO — Nissan and Honda announced March 15 that they will work together in developing EVs and auto intelligence technology, sectors where Japanese automakers have fallen behind.

A joint venture between General Motors and Honda began commercial production Jan. 25 of hydrogen fuel cells in Brownstown, Mich., aimed at the commercial vehicle market.

Honda Motor Co. will hike the pay of some U.S. employees by 11% following the United Auto Workers’ contract victories at its unionized Detroit competitors, according to a company memo.

Honda Motor Co. is shelving plans to jointly develop affordable electric vehicles with General Motors Co. due to a changing business environment, CEO Toshihiro Mibe said.

DETROIT — Honda is recalling a half-million vehicles, including some Accord, Odyssey and Insight models, in the U.S. and Canada because the front seat belts may not latch properly.

Toyota Motor Corp. reported a slight drop in global sales in January due to lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and a chronic shortage of semiconductors for automobiles, the Japanese automaker said.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s privatized economic development office has finalized an agreement with Honda to infuse $237 million into development of a massive battery plant project that the Japanese automaker plans to use to transform the state into its North American electric vehicle hub.

TOKYO — A new electric car company that brings together two big names in Japanese business, Honda and Sony, officially kicked off Oct. 13.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Honda says it will build a $3.5 billion joint-venture battery factory in rural southern Ohio and hire 2,200 people to staff it as the company starts to turn the state into its North American electric vehicle hub.