Honda electric scooter

Japan based auto manufacturer, Honda Motor has launched its new Electric scooter, Honda EV-Neo, for overseas market. The company's plans to aim domestic business customers like Pizza delivery services. The EV-Neo is equipped with lithium-ion battery. Its performance is as similar as of a 50cc petrol engine performance, without noise. The battery can be quickly charged up to 80 percent of capacity within the 20 minutes, although regular power socket charge would take about 4 hours, said the Japanese auto maker. Honda Motors intends to start leasing the EV scooter to Japanese business companies from end of this year, said a spokeswoman, without disclosing the price tag or production targets.

EV-Neo may not be acceptable for personal uses, but the company eventually wants to make it for individual customers. Japan Honda Motor projected the scooter as "noise and clean and contributing to making a low-carbon society" as it introduced a prototype of the two-wheeler at a research facility on the section of Tokyo. Honda Motor released 200 units of an earlier EV model to Japanese business customers in 1994. Although the company wasn't announced international sales for the electric scooter.

Apart from that launches, Toyota's Prius hybrid model has been the top-selling car in the domestic market for early a year, while Nissan is introducing its Leaf electric car in the next year, it will make a competition with Mitsubishi Motors I-MiEV. On the other hand, In India will see more bike launches like Yamaha SZ, Yamaha YZF R125 andTVS Wego.

Honda Scooters

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India is planning to increase its share of bikes sale up to 50 per cent in the next one year. At present, Honda's scooter sales accounts for more than 60 per cent in the total sale. The company is to achieve this target by launching new bikes in India in the aforesaid time period. Scooters sales of Honda has been phenomenal and the company is still getting excellent response from the auto market. Honda's leading gearless scooters include Honda Activa, Honda Aviator and Honda Diowhich are presently capture at 50 per cent market share. Last fiscal year, the company registered total two-wheeler sales of around 13 lakh and the scooters contributed over 60 percent of sales.

" We would target motorcycles sales more than scooter sales in the next one-year," said, Shinji Aoyama, president and CEO of HMSI. The company has also set a target of selling 15 lakh units of two-wheelers and expected that motorcycles would contribute at least 50 percent or more in the current financial year 2010-11, he added. Honda Motor has launched long-awaited CB Unicorn Dazzler in India. It is a new upgraded version of flagship model of the company, Honda Unicorn. Honda CB Dazzler was first showcased at the 10th Delhi Auto Expo,2010. It is available at the price tag of Rs. 62,900 (ex-showroom-Delhi).