Trích đoạn: từ Honda's History
Soichiro Honda had always made it clear that his policy was to make emission control technologies public. As Honda’s CVCC technology became available to other automakers, Toyota Motor inquired about it. Subsequently, an engineer from that company visited Honda R&D Center, where he test drove the car and was given details of the technology. Then, following a thorough evaluation of CVCC technology, Toyota signed a licensing agreement with Honda.
“It was a very positive sign when Toyota became the first to sign an agreement,” said Koichiro Yoshizawa, who was in charge of negotiating the licensing agreements with outside companies. “In fact, it had a positive effect on both the CVCC and Honda. Once the news hit the papers that we had signed an agreement with Toyota, other makers in Japan and the U.S. immediately forwarded their proposals.”
Licensing agreements were eventually signed with Ford, Chrysler, and Isuzu, and during that period Honda R&D was in constant receipt of visitors from auto companies around the world.
The EPA held a public hearing on March 19, 1973, in Washington, D.C., to hear the testimony of automakers on whether to implement the 1970 Clean Air Act as scheduled. At the hearing, the only automakers who testified that they could meet the 1975 regulations were Honda and Toyo Industries (now Mazda).
