DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act Of 1993 -- Sony Honda Mobility Inc.
Notice is hereby given that, on August 24, 2022,
pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative
Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.
(“the Act”), Honda Motor Co., Ltd., on behalf of its joint
venture with Sony Group Corporation, to be incorporated as
Sony Honda Mobility Inc. (“Sony Honda Mobility”), has filed
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney
General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the
identities of the parties to the venture and (2) the nature
and objectives of the venture.

The notifications were

filed for the purpose of invoking the Act’s provisions
limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual
damages under specified circumstances.
Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of
the parties to the venture are: Sony Group Corp, Tokyo,
JAPAN; and Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN.

The

general area of Sony Honda Mobility’s planned activity is
the development and production of high-value-added electric
vehicles, as well as components and advanced mobility
services software and technologies for integration into
vehicles.

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics,

Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-20229 Filed: 9/16/2022 8:45 am; Publication Date: 9/19/2022]