Power List 2020 – Honda Cars

Established in 1995, HCIL set up its first manufacturing unit in India in Greater Noida, UP, in 1997. This unit spread across a sprawling area of more than 150 acres, manufactures around 100,000 units annually. Honda Brio, Honda City and Honda CR-V are the primary models produced at this unit.

HCIL has another manufacturing unit in Tapukara, Alwar District, in Rajasthan. This plant is a bigger one as compared to the plant in Greater Noida. Also, this is the first car plant set up by any automobile manufacturer in Rajasthan. The Rajasthan plant of HCIL comes equipped with some of the latest facilities, like the state-of-theart press shop and powertrain. This plant, spread over an area of over 400 acres, has an annual production capacity of 180,000 vehicles. People who know about internal combustion engines choose Honda cars over the others because of the better quality of their engines.

The Honda car models lists various enthusiastic and practical cars like the City, WR-V, Jazz, BR-V and Amaze which are manufactured locally in India. The Honda Accord Hybrid is a CBU (Completely Built- Up) vehicle imported from Thailand. HCIL exports cars as well, now to 15 countries. In addition to the automobiles, HCIL manufactures auto components for local use as well as global export. The carmaker is currently in a transition phase, as it is shifting to BS-VI emission norms that is set to be implemented across the country from 1st April 2020. The company has shifted to production of BS-6 models in both its plants of Greater Noida and Tapukara. Domestic dispatches of BS-6 compliant models stood at 5,299 units in Jan’20.