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Honda in America 2021

Over 60 Years of Investing in America

Our Reason to Exist

$22.6 BILLION “The purpose Cumulative capital investment of technology is to

$2.3 BILLION 28.3 MILLION help people.” — Soichiro Direct payroll Cars and light trucks produced in the U.S. since 1982 Those words from our founder haveshaped the history of the products 30,000 we create for our customers and our contributions to society. This has been U.S. associates our commitment in America for more than 60 years, and for over 40 years we’ve been developing and building those products in America.

DEALER $5.3 BILLION 156,000 JOBS This has not only created new value for our customers, it has changed lives New investment in the at 13,300 dealerships in communities across the U.S. past five years and distributors It’s worth considering, what if Honda didn’t exist? 70 U.S. FACILITIES Including 12 manufacturing plants, 19 R&D facilities, and 12 parts centers, as well as marketing, sales, service and financing operations

INVESTING IN AMERICA

... we hadn’t led a wave of new ... we hadn’t pioneered technology manufacturers who followed Honda that has led to advances in both Our associates are our greatest experts for the use of Personal in building products here, creating tens environmental and safety performance, asset. Since the outbreak Protective Equipment, social of the COVID-19 pandemic, distancing, contact tracing and of thousands of jobs across America? for our customers and society? the health and safety of our other appropriate measures. associates has been our top During this challenging priority, with Honda facilities time, we continue working All photos in this brochure of Through the efforts of our30,000 associates who develop, build, and sell taking steps to carefully manage to support our associates, Honda associates not wearing a diverse array of products in the U.S., we will continue to fulfill our purpose our operations following the customers and communities masks were taken prior to the recommendations of health across the U.S. start of the COVID-19 pandemic. as a company, helping people and making their lives better.

PAGE 1 Building Products Investing in the Workforce of Tomorrow in America Technology can be innovative, but only people can innovate. The rapid advancement of vehicle technologies and the modern production technologies used to build them are placing the auto industry at a crossroads. Honda is investing in programs and educational initiatives to engage and prepare the kinds of skilled associates who will represent the manufacturing workforce of the future. Based on Honda’s longstanding commitment to build products close to our customers, more than two-thirds of the Honda and vehicles sold in We partner with local schools Honda Professional Automotive Career America in 2020 were built here — making Honda second among all full-line and two-year and four-year colleges Training (PACT) provides state-of-the-art automakers for the share of vehicles that were built and sold in America.* to stimulate interest in STEM, training to help students become certified including equipment purchases. technicians in high-demand at Honda and Acura dealerships across America.

Honda had not made the Honda operates To create enthusiasm We’ve established automobile pioneering commitment to build for manufacturing a work-study manufacturing products in America in 1979? among young students, program for students facilities in Honda worked with at two-year America – Honda was the first Japanese an education game colleges to gain 5more than any automaker to build cars in the developer to create experience other international a first-of-its-kind working at U.S. . Since then, 13 other automaker. manufacturing Honda while international automakers have video game. attending school. followed Honda, establishing their own auto plants in America, supporting nearly 2.5 million jobs and $92 billion in investment.

Honda created two technical development Honda has developed Mobile centers in Ohio to provide our current Manufacturing Laboratories with robotics associates training opportunities with new and other technologies that provide students with We now manufacturing technologies. hands-on learning about manufacturing. have 12 manufacturing 966,000 585,000 1,061,000 97,000 plants Cars and Light Power Equipment Automobile Powersports “As the first member of my family to mobile labs, work-study initiatives, and Engines in America Trucks Products Products earn a college degree, providing students other efforts, we’re helping students get with opportunities is a passion for me. the skills they need to obtain good-paying that produce At Honda, through technical education manufacturing jobs that will support 5 million programs, manufacturing video games, families, communities and our economy.” products Scot McLemore 942,000 31 1,307,000 56 Manager, Talent Acquisition annually. Transmissions Aircraft General Purpose Aircraft Engines Board Member, Ohio Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation Engines

PAGE 2 *Honda and Acura products are built using domestic and globally sourced parts. Designing and Creating “I always challenge my team to create our own new value and to actively share that new value with our industry partners. Products in America We join committees and share information at conferences to help power new thinking by our open-minded partners. This draws everyone closer and fuels collaboration and even more new thinking, which in turn leads to innovation.”

Honda engineers in the U.S. play a lead role in the research, Sue Bai design and development of the innovative products we build in Chief Engineer, Division Director Honda Research Institute USA, Inc. America for our customers here and around the world. Bai is a two-time winner of the SAE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Award for her achievements in improving safety in mobility environments through connected-vehicle technology. Honda associates 2,400 33 in the U.S. have led Honda R&D Associates Car and Light-Truck in America Models the research, design Honda had not begun developing new products and development of aren’t just responsible for and technologies in America in 1975? Honda products at $1.2 Billion 35 what the vehicle looks like. R&D facilities Investment in U.S. Powersports OUR U.S. R&D TEAMS R&D Operations Since starting , 19 in America. Products Honda has developed 33 vehicles in the U.S., including the advancement of safety HondaJet 50 innovations that benefit not only our Advanced Power Equipment Light Jet Products customers but everyone sharing the road.

Our U.S. engineers handle complete product

development, Honda associates in the U.S. were issued The is a 35-mile stretch of highway including 278 patents in 2020, including in the in Ohio where Honda tests connected-vehicle systems to body, platform mechanical, electrical and chemical fields. improve traffic flow toward realizing a collision-free society. and chassis design, product styling design, safety and environmental technology development, prototype fabrication and testing. Honda’s technology, now being tested in With major R&D facilities in California, Ohio, and North Carolina, Ohio, enables cars to virtually see through and around buildings Honda also creates side-by-side and all-terrain vehicles and to help identify and alert drivers to otherwise hidden hazards. power equipment products in America.

PAGE 4 Honda and Acura products are built using domestic and globally sourced parts. PAGE 5 Locally Sourced for Quality for the World Global Sales Honda began planning to export the products we make in America even before the first U.S. Honda plant began operation in 1979. Under the rallying cry “Quality for the world, made in the USA” Honda began motorcycle exports the following year. Since Honda began building products in America in 1979, we’ve steadily grown our purchases Honda exported U.S.-built Honda has now exported over 1.37 million cars and products to 78 countries and of parts and materials from U.S. suppliers. light trucks from the U.S. to overseas markets. territories in 2020.

Today, Honda works with that supply parts that allow Honda to produce a diverse range of products for our customers in America and around the world.

$23.5 Billion $5.8 Billion $1.1 Billion $30.4 Billion 627 / 33 Parts & Materials Goods & Services Service Parts Purchased from 627 U.S. suppliers of parts and U.S. suppliers in 2020 materials across 33 states 13 Models American-made car and light-truck models Investing in exported from the U.S. Diverse Businesses 1.37 Million in 2020 As part of our efforts to American-made Honda increase diversity and inclusion and Acura cars and in our business operations, light trucks exported Honda has hosted an outside of North aimed at connecting America since 1987 our Tier 1 suppliers with minority-owned suppliers, In 2020, Honda purchased $23.5 billion in parts and materials setting specific spending from 627 U.S. suppliers that provide parts to the company’s targets for minority-owned manufacturing operations in the region, which produce cars and businesses. This has resulted $1 Billion light trucks and the engines and transmissions that power them. in annual purchases of over Value of 2020 U.S. $2.9 billion from women- and exports: vehicles, power minority-owned businesses. equipment, powersports Honda also works Honda purchased more Honda purchased products, service parts, with over 7,200 North than $1.1 billion in parts nearly $184 million in and aircraft American indirect from 1,041 service parts parts and materials procurement suppliers suppliers in the U.S. from 154 U.S. suppliers that provide a wide in 2020. Service parts supporting production variety of equipment, are supplied to Honda of Honda power products and services. and Acura dealers that equipment products in serve the needs of North Carolina. The first U.S.-built exported to ­— our customers. a Coupe — is loaded onto a ship in Portland, Oregon in 1987.

PAGE 6 Honda and Acura products are built using domestic and globally sourced parts. PAGE 7 MAJOR Honda OPERATIONS • $1.8 billion in capital investment • $1.3 billion in • $14 billion in • $3 billion in • $562 million in • $846 million in • $454 million in Investment • 2,800 associates capital investment capital investment capital investment capital investment capital investment capital investment • 5 R&D facilities • 2,700 associates • 14,100 associates • 4,500 associates • 1,000 associates • 2,000 associates • 1,000 associates Across • American Honda Motor Co., Inc. • Manufacturing plant • 5 manufacturing plants • Manufacturing plant • Manufacturing plant • 3 manufacturing plants • Manufacturing plant headquarters • 3 R&D facilities • Parts center • 3 R&D facilities • R&D facility the U.S. • 3 parts centers • 2 parts centers

LEGEND

Manufacturing Facilities 12 U.S. manufacturing plants are located in six states.

Sales, Service, & Parts Zone Offices 4x Zone offices support Honda and Acura dealers from six locations.

Suppliers 3x Honda has more than 627 U.S. suppliers of parts and 5x materials across 33 states. 14,100 ASSOCIATES 3x R&D Facilities 2,700 2x ASSOCIATES Honda has 19 U.S. R&D facilities 5x that perform all aspects of new 2x

product development. 2x 3x 3x 2,000 Finance Centers ASSOCIATES 2,800 American Honda Finance ASSOCIATES Corporation employs 1,400 associates 3x 1,000 ASSOCIATES at its eight offices nationwide. 4,500

ASSOCIATES Auto, Powersports & Power Equipment Dealers 2x 2x Dealers selling Honda products 1,000 are located in all 50 states and employ ASSOCIATES 156,000 people in the U.S.

Parts Centers Honda has 12 parts centers 3x across the nation.

Ports of Export Honda exports vehicles, products, and service parts from 16 U.S. ports.

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 % better than the % lower industry average.* CO emissions The Road to 1 6.1 13.7 2 Honda and Acura than the industry Zero Emissions 28.9 mpg fuel economy. average.*

Fuel Economy by OEM (mpg) CO2 Emissions by OEM (g/mile) Honda 28.9 Honda 307 Honda hadn’t led the industry toward significant Hyundai 28.5 HondaHyundai 311 reductions in pollution and Subaru 28.4 HondaSubaru 312 greenhouse gas emissions? Kia 28.1 HondaKia 315 Honda has established a challenging Since Honda became the first automaker to meet Mazda 27.8 HondaMazda 320 goal to cut our company’s global the strict emissions standards of the Nissan 27.0 HondaNissan 329 , we led the industry in reducing tailpipe CO footprint toward achieving BMW 26.2 HondaBMW 337 2 emissions to the point where cars today emit by 2050. VW 26.1 HondaVW 338 less than 1/1000th of the pollution from cars 25.8 HondaToyota 345 in the 1970s. This includes being first to meet This is the focus of our environmental All OEMs 24.9 HondaAll OEMs 356 California’s Low, Ultra-Low and Super Ultra-Low Emission Vehicle standards in the 1990s. And efforts and we’ve set aggressive goals Mercedes 23.7 HondaMercedes 374 last year, Honda – like four other automakers – toward it, including our intention to Ford 22.5 HondaFord 395

GM 22.5 HondaGM 395 make two-thirds of our global new auto to meet aggressive vehicle greenhouse gas sales by 2030. FCA (Stellantis) 21.2 HondaFCA (Stellantis) 418 emission reductions. Source: U.S. EPA Automotive Trends Report based on rankings of full-line automakers. Source: U.S. EPA Automotive Trends Report based on rankings of full-line automakers.

To reduce

Leading: CO2 emissions, Then we’re rapidly & Now deploying hybrid-electric The ranked #1 in the very vehicles in first U.S. Environmental Protection the near-term Agency (EPA) ranking of America’s as we work most fuel-efficient vehicles in 1976. toward our goal Continuing a more than 40-year history of 100% electrified of leadership in fuel efficiency and vehicles in the

lowering CO2 emissions, Honda ranks U.S. by 2040, as the full-line automaker with the including the introduction of , according a new series to the latest U.S. EPA report.** of electric vehicles starting with the 2024 model year. PATH TO ELECTRIFICATION TO PATH

PAGE 10 *Based on FY2020 data. **For the 2019 model year, the latest year for which full data is available. PAGE 11 The Road to Zero Emissions Driving Sustainability

In addition to building three electrified vehicles in the U.S. – the Honda Accord Hybrid, CR-V Hybrid BUILDING and Insight – we have begun the assembly of key components for electrified vehicles, including ELECTRIFIED the hybrid battery in our Ohio and Indiana auto plants and the two-motor hybrid system in VEHICLES our Ohio transmission plant. Honda “Green Factory” IN AMERICA Initiative Honda is working comprehensively Powered to address the Honda set an all-time record for sales of its electrified vehicles in America in 2020. by Renewable of product manufacturing by reducing water use, energy Energy use, waste and emissions. Honda is a leader in the global auto industry in adopting renewable energy Honda Accord Honda CR-V to slash CO emissions and Hybrid Hybrid Hybrid Plug-in Hybrid % % 2 93 27.5 power our operations. The Honda has cut waste Honda has reduced long-term

A Smarter Way to Charge to landfills from the CO2 emissions manufacturing by intensity of automobile that went into effect in 2020 is an innovative effort by Honda to shift electric vehicle 93% since 2001 production in North help offset the carbon- charging in real-time to when electricity demand is low and the availability America by 27.5% intensive, grid-supplied of renewable energy is high, reducing demand on the grid during peak load since 2010 electricity being used in times, and helping Honda fulfill our goal of reducing CO emissions. 2 our Ohio, Indiana, and Alabama auto plants.

“The biggest challenge By building smart charging, Over 60% of the electricity that we have as a society Honda has created a GREEN DEALER that Honda uses in North is to greatly reduce CO valuable tool where we can 2 PROGRAM encourages Honda America will be covered by emissions. We’ve set a use electric vehicles as a and Acura automobile, over 1 million megawatt- goal by 2050 to achieve resource to help society power equipment, hours of renewable electricity carbon neutrality and adopt a maximum amount from wind and solar power and powersports that’s going to take not of renewable energy. generated in Oklahoma dealers to reduce the only the wide adoption This is one of the things and Texas. of electrified vehicles, that we can do to improve environmental impact but the expansive use of the value of our vehicles of their operations. renewable energy. to our customers.”

Ryan Harty Senior Manager, CASE & Energy Business Development

PAGE 12 PAGE 13 Safety Realizing a for Everyone Collision-Free Future Honda is a leader in introducing that are on the technological and perceptual bridge to the Our approach to advancing safety for Honda had not established a world-class safety automated vehicles of the future. Over 5 million research facility in America in 2003? everyone sharing the road is not limited vehicles on U.S. roads are equipped with Honda to automobile drivers and motorcycle riders, Since Honda began research and testing of safety Sensing® or AcuraWatch™ advanced safety and technologies in Ohio in 2003, our U.S. engineers but extends to passengers, pedestrians driver-assistive technologies. have created a number of advanced safety systems More than 95% and occupants of all vehicles. in America, including body structures. of new Honda cars sold in the U.S. are equipped with Honda Sensing.®

Honda’s safety research facility in Ohio is one of the most sophisticated crash safety research and testing facilities in the world, featuring the world’s first pitching test sled and world’s highest resolution impact barrier.

“I grew up in a very remote area in the northwest is not only about protecting our customers but also Award-Winning corner of Nebraska. My graduating class had only extends to those friends and family members who Next-Generation 14 students. must deal with the loss Airbag of a loved one. To me, When I was in high school, friends of mine were out Collision Our world’s-first passenger there’s nothing that could driving on a gravel road outside of town. The vehicle Compatibility front airbag design conceived be more important.” by Honda engineers in they were in rolled over, and just like that, three of Engineering Ohio is a major leap forward, my friends were gone. Bryan Hourt Honda’s exclusive designed to cradle and Unfortunately, in the United States there are more Chief Engineer, body structure enhances protect the head to reduce than 42,000 roadway fatalities each year. We take North American Safety occupant protection through frontal crash-energy the chance of severe brain Strategy and Planning that very personally at Honda, and that’s something absorption and crash compatibility. Every Honda and trauma associated with we’re committed to improving. ‘Safety for Everyone’ Acura vehicle sold in America features the ACE™ body. angled frontal collisions.

PAGE 14 PAGE 15 Did you know? Investing in America for Over 60 Years • Honda marks 50 years of More than two-thirds of the automobile sales in America Honda and Acura vehicles sold 2020 in America are built here, too. • Honda marks 40 years of Every new Acura vehicle sold manufacturing in America and 2019 in America is built at one of our 60 years of U.S. operations Honda builds 25-millionth 2018 three auto plants in Ohio. automobile in America New Performance • 2016 Manufacturing Center begins Our U.S. R&D engineers begins production in Ohio production of HF120 turbofan 2014 have created more than 30 cars and light trucks in America. jet engines in North Carolina Honda Aircraft begins HondaJet 2012 production in North Carolina • Fourth U.S. automobile plant 2008 A world’s first airbag design begins production in Indiana New plant in Georgia conceived by Honda’s U.S. 2006 begins production of engineers has been made Honda’s third U.S. automatic transmissions available to other automakers. automobile plant begins 2001 • production in Alabama New plant in South Carolina 1998 Honda associates build three opens to build ATVs Auto transmission different hybrid-electric vehicles 1996 production begins in Ohio New R&D facility opens in Ohio at our plants in America. 1993 to advance product development • and purchasing in America Production begins Less than 1% of the waste from 1989 at second U.S. auto plant Honda’s U.S. manufacturing Honda begins exporting 1987 plants goes to landfills. U.S.-built automobiles First U.S. engine plant 1985 begins production in Ohio Honda starts R&D operations in 1984 Ohio, supporting suppliers and doing U.S. production of power early product development work equipment begins with lawn 1984 mowers in North Carolina U.S. auto production 1982 begins with the Honda Accord in Marysville, Ohio U.S. production begins with 1979 motorcycles in Marysville, Ohio U.S.-based R&D begins 1975 in California with product styling and research Auto sales 1970 begin in America Power equipment sales 1962 begin in America Honda establishes U.S. operations in California 1959 for motorcycle sales

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