Honda starts production of new CR-V in Ohio


November 24, 2016 at 12:00a.m.

Honda starts production of new CR-V in Ohio

EAST LIBERTY, Ohio

Honda says global mass production of the new version of its CR-V has begun in Ohio.

The redesigned and re-engineered 2017 CR-V goes on sale in the winter. Production at Honda’s East Liberty Auto Plant began Tuesday.

The five-passenger CR-V is a compact SUV with the underpinnings of Honda’s popular Civic small car. It’s been the best-selling SUV in America for the past 20 years.

Honda says the Ohio plant has developed the processes and technologies that will form the manufacturing base for CR-V production at 10 other Honda plants around the world.

Lower-priced models of the new CR-V get the outgoing model’s 184-horsepower 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine. More expensive models get a new 1.5-liter turbocharged engine that puts out 190 horsepower.

Duke agrees to plead guilty in Ohio River oil spill

CINCINNATI

Federal authorities say a Duke Energy subsidiary has agreed to plead guilty to negligent discharge of fuel oil and pay a $1 million fine plus restitution for a 2014 spill into the Ohio River near Cincinnati.

Authorities say Duke Energy Beckjord representatives agreed Tuesday to plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act when about 9,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled from the Duke subsidiary’s power plant in New Richmond into the Ohio River. The August 2014 spill affected a 15-mile stretch of the river.

A company statement says a worker performing a fuel transfer failed to stop in time, spilling fuel into a containment structure where a valve was left open, allowing fuel to spill into the river.

Associated Press

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