Honda to launch CR-Z and Fit Hybrids in 2010
Honda has officially confirmed that they will release the Honda CR-Z hybrid and Honda Fit Hybrid by the end of 2010. The automaker’s new CEO, Takanobu Ito, announced the plan earlier today in Japan.
Ito’s decision accelerates the direction shift Honda made at the beginning of 2009 when then-CEO Takeo Fukui cancelled the NSX and the S2000 in favor of increasing hybrid vehicle production. In a January ‘09 speech, Fukui told of Honda plans to increase hybrid production to 500,000 units per year by 2012. Honda will bring the CR-Z to market in Japan beginning in February 2010, with sales of the Fit starting towards the end of that year.