Honda is looking to make the Civic Hybrid and Insight more green by lowering emissions and waste.  The Japanese auto maker is looking towards green technology in all aspects of their vehicle design and production.

Being the second largest auto maker in Japan, Honda is realizing the difficulty in leaving a small carbon footprint.  But they are about to break ground on a new 980,000 sq. foot plant that will be as green as they come.

Mr. Ito said that innovative technologies introduced at the new Yorii plant "would create a benchmark for other Honda manufacturing plants, aiming to reduce the energy use in vehicle production by more than 30 percent."

"The Yorii plant will start with small-volume production of environmentally-responsible vehicles which requires highly sophisticated manufacturing technologies to mature its advanced technologies," Mr. Ito said.

"Yorii will evolve such manufacturing technologies that are keys to the next-generation of Honda, to other Honda operations around the world to achieve the global growth of Honda."

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