モーター racing-Honda waiting for 決まり文句/製法 E to get better and grow

By Alan Baldwin

SPIELBERG, Austria, July 3 (Reuters) - Honda have no 即座の 計画(する)s to enter the all-electric 決まり文句/製法 E series even if some within the company are keen to do so, によれば their 決まり文句/製法 One 長,率いる Yusuke Hasegawa.

With 決まり文句/製法 E ending its second season in London on Sunday, and 輪郭(を描く)ing a 2016-17 calendar that 含むs New York and Hong Kong for the first time, Hasegawa said the Japanese carmaker had looked into it.

But he said the racing needed to 改善する.

"We have some consideration but so far we have no 計画(する)s to join 決まり文句/製法 E. 決まり文句/製法 E is not very popular yet," Hasegawa told reporters at the Austrian Grand Prix, …に出席するd by some of Honda's 上級の 管理/経営.

"As a technical point of 見解(をとる), it is 利益/興味ing but from a racing point of 見解(をとる) it is not attractive yet.

"Of course there are some 可能性s we will join 決まり文句/製法 E. In the company some of the members want to join 決まり文句/製法 E 同様に," 追加するd the Japanese, 任命するd in February after a 管理/経営 shake-up.

Citroen's DS brand, Renault and Audi are の中で 容積/容量 carmakers 伴う/関わるd with 決まり文句/製法 E teams while Jaguar are joining in season three. BMW 供給する safety and 医療の cars.

No Japanese 製造業者 is 伴う/関わるd, にもかかわらず 憶測 that Nissan might enter after 身を引くing from the World Endurance 選手権.

Chinese-支援するd Los Angeles-based Tesla 競争相手 Faraday 未来 last week 発表するd a を取り引きする the Dragon Racing team with former Ferrari F1 主要な/長/主犯 Marco Mattiacci 監督するing the 共同.

決まり文句/製法 E 長,指導者 (n)役員/(a)執行力のある Alejandro Agag also hopes Volkswagen will get more 伴う/関わるd after the company last month 発表するd 計画(する)s for a big 押し進める into electric cars.

"We've 招待するd them to have a larger 関与 in 決まり文句/製法 E, we hope they go this 大勝する," he told Reuters.

"I think 明白に if a company decides to go more into electric, it makes the 決定/判定勝ち(する) to come into 決まり文句/製法 E easier," he 追加するd.

"But these large 会社/団体s always want to come to something, 決まり文句/製法 E or any other 選手権, when it is very stable and very solid financially. I think now we are getting to that point."

Honda said in February it was 目的(とする)ing for new-energy 乗り物s to account for two-thirds of its line-up by 2030, from around five パーセント now.

Japan's third-biggest 自動車製造業者 by sales said its 石油-殴打/砲列 hybrid, plug-in hybrid, 殴打/砲列 electric and 燃料 独房 乗り物s (FCV) would collectively より数が多い its 石油-only offerings in いっそう少なく than 15 years' time.

決まり文句/製法 E 開始する,打ち上げるd in 2014 and 持つ/拘留するs races in city centres around the world.

The cars, which make little noise, are far slower than 決まり文句/製法 One and cannot 完全にする a race distance 予定 to the 制限s of 殴打/砲列 科学(工学)技術, although that should change by season five.

Drivers 現在/一般に have to change cars 中途の through races. (Editing by Ed Osmond)

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