Nikkei Announces Honda’s Intentions for Huge Cars To Run with Diesel Motors
Second to the largest Japanese auto maker, Honda has announced its plans for the year, one of which includes intentions to make large vehicles that employ a low- emission V-6 diesel engine available in North America. The company foresees the arrival of such cars by the year 2010.
The company seems to be refining its design for the 3.5-liter diesel engine that will allow vehicles be as much as 30 percent more fuel efficient than was previously observed in cars that ran on gasoline power. This was reported by several news services in a number of global channels. The reports also included a little information on the nature of diesel engines, informing the public that diesel engines also emit about 20 percent less carbon dioxide, even though they happen to release harmful nitrogen oxides and particulates into the atmosphere.
Honda wants to hold an initial launch of the engine in the Odyssey minivan. In a similar vein of thought, the company may also do the same for the Pilot sport utility vehicle, the Ridgeline pickup truck, as well as with the luxury Acura line. This was reported by Nikkei of the English News. The engine, judging from early reports, will help Honda to further compete against diesel models produced from rival companies the likes of DaimlerChrysler AG, BMW AG and Volkswagen AG. This was added by the news service centers.
Infering from the news, one can certainly expect that Honda’s line of Acura cars will be showing more and more improvements in the future geared towards greener technology measures.