Honda cancels plan for cheap electric vehicles, ending collaboration with GM
arstechnica.com
The platform was to use GM's Ultium batteries.

Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM::The platform was to use GM’s Ultium batteries.

    • First@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      PHEV’s are getting reclassified/re-regulated by the EU, because:

      • The stated average emissions are based on actually plugging in to charge, which most owners don’t bother with, considering electric propulsion only accounts for like 1/15 of the cars total range

      • It has been regulated in a way that gave the manufacturer only small emissions penalty for increasing the motor size & weight of the car - because it was still considered to be electrically powered.

      • The design itself leads to a heavier car (having 2 propulsion systems)

      Meanwhile, the full EV market has been more self-regulating in the sense that they have kept the weight/energy requirements down in order be competitive on range.

    • GalacticCmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I would not say a better approach, but it is a workable one. We have one already and will be getting a second one in the next few months. Our next new car will be an all electric, but that is a few years down the road.