Honda Accord Hybrid: Supply Now Sufficient To Meet Demand

The Honda Accord Hybrid was launched as a 2014 model, and the first few were sold back in October 2013.

But over the next year, despite favorable reviews and a handful of awards, the Accord Hybrid remained a rare beast indeed on dealership lots.

Now, more than a year later, it appears that supply has finally caught up to demand for Honda's 47-mpg hybrid mid-size sedan.

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Green Car Reports wrote last August that reader complaints about lack of availability were continuing to come in, 10 months after the hybrid Accord's launch.

At that time, Angie Nucci, senior environment & safety specialist for Honda North America, said Honda was suffering from "component supply constraints" on the hybrid version of the Accord.

Unlike the very low-volume plug-in hybrid Accord, the standard Accord Hybrid is built on the same line as conventional U.S. Accords in Honda's plant in Marysville, Ohio.

The components were likely batteries, electric motors, and/or power electronics, all of the imported from Japan specifically for U.S. production of hybrid Accords.

But those constraints appear to have eased.

Yesterday, Nucci told Green Car Reports in response to a query that Honda's U.S. sales unit said, "The supply of Accord Hybrids in general is in line with the supply of the regular Accord sedan."

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