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Honda Motor will provide its core hybrid car technologies to a number of Chinese automakers, eyeing to boost sales in the world’s largest car market, a report said Sunday.

Lawyers for American Honda Motor Co. Inc. returned to court Thursday to try to overturn a highly publicized small claims court award to a woman who sued over the fuel mileage of her hybrid Honda Civic.

Honda Motor Co. said Tuesday that it has developed a technology with Japan Metals & Chemicals Co. that enables extraction of rare earth minerals from used nickel hydride storage batteries of hybrid vehicles.

Honda’s Crosstour has been a lightning rod for controversy since the first images of the crossover appeared on social networking sites back in September of 2009.

Honda Motor Co.’s U.S. vehicle sales fell 5% in March as fewer car sales more than offset truck sale gains. The results missed estimates from car-shopping website Edmunds.com, which expected Honda to post a jump of 4.3%. Overall, Edmunds projected U.S. new-auto sales for March to rise 17% from a year earlier and 26% from More >

Honda seems to have awoken from a slumber or emerged from the bunker. Call it what you like, but the once-innovative Japanese car company looks to have found a new seriousness about the design, technology, packaging and overall engineering of its vehicles.

Honda Automobile Thailand (HATC) has resumed production at its plant in Ayutthaya after severe floods halted operations in early October. HATC, a subsidiary of Honda Motor, is the last of the Japanese automobile companies to resume production in Thailand after the floods.

Thai Industry Minister Pongsvas Svasti on Wednesday affirmed that Japanese automaker Honda will not relocate its production base in Thailand to another country despite huge losses in output during the country’s mega flood late last year.

It was reported a few days ago that Honda would invest US$340 million (Bt10.4 billion) to triple its production capacity in Indonesia to 180,000 units. The investment would serve the growing demand for vehicles in Southeast Asia’s largest market, a nation of 200 million. The plant near Jakarta will create 2,000 jobs and commence production More >