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Native name | 东风本田汽车有限公司 |
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Company type | Joint venture |
Industry | Automotive |
Founded | July 2003 (Wuhan) |
Headquarters | , China |
Products | Automobiles |
Production output | 740,090 (2018) [1] |
Parent | Dongfeng Motor Group (50%) Honda Motor Company (40%) Honda Motor (China) Investment Co Ltd (10%) [2] |
Website | www |
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Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 东风本田 | ||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 東風本田 | ||||||||||||||||
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Japanese name | |||||||||||||||||
Kanji | 東風本田 [note 1] | ||||||||||||||||
Hiragana | とうふうほんだ or とんぷうほんだ | ||||||||||||||||
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Dongfeng Honda Automobile Co.,Ltd. is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Wuhan,China,and a 50:50 joint-venture between Dongfeng Motor Group and Honda Motor Company. It currently produces a variety of Honda models also available in other markets and a handful of China-only products. The company sells vehicles under the Honda and Ciimo marques.
According to Honda,the total production capacity for the two plants of Dongfeng Honda in Wuhan,were 480,000 units,yearly. [3] However,Dongfeng Motor Group reported that 713,840 units were produced by Dongfeng Honda in 2017. [1]
Dongfeng Honda was established in July 2003 [4] and began automobile production in April 2004 with the Honda CR-V sport utility vehicle. [5]
In February 2006,Dongfeng Honda completed a 2.8 billion yuan (US$340 million) expansion of its production facility quadrupling production capacity to 120,000 units. [6] In May 2008,it announced plans to double production capacity to 240,000 vehicles a year with an investment of 10 billion RMB. [7] [8]
As of 2011,product part-content included parts manufactured in Japan. [9] Honda builds a second Wuhan factory in 2012,a third in 2018,takes over an idle Shenlong factory in 2021 and announces an all-new BEV-only factory earlier this year. Almost at the same time as Dongfeng Honda,the Japanese set up a third joint venture plant called Honda Automobile (China). Honda owns a majority of 65%,GAC holds 25% and Dongfeng has 10%. This plant is only used for export to Asia and the Middle East.
In 2022,the company became more heavily involved in sourcing batteries for electric vehicles. [10]
As of 2016,Dongfeng Honda had two completed production bases and a third planned. The proposed factory will be situated near its 2004 and 2012 production bases in Wuhan,Hubei. [11]
Source: [12]
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