{"id":48229,"date":"2023-04-26T00:03:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T04:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=48229"},"modified":"2023-04-26T00:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T04:03:29","slug":"1139476_us-bound-honda-developed-ev-due-in-2025-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=48229","title":{"rendered":"US-bound Honda-developed EV due in 2025, ahead of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

The timeline has been pulled earlier for Honda\u2019s first dedicated electric vehicle engineered in-house for high-volume production.<\/p>\n

That yet-unnamed mid- to large-sized EV built on \u201cHonda\u2019s original dedicated EV platform\u201d will go on sale in 2025 for North America\u2014stepped up from a targeted 2026\u2014top Honda executives revealed as part of a company update held Wednesday morning in Japan.<\/p>\n

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That will follow the introduction of the GM-based Honda Prologue<\/a> and Acura ZDX<\/a>, which will both arrive in 2024. The ZDX will be made in Tennessee alongside the Cadillac Lyriq<\/a>, and the Prologue has been confirmed for North American production (perhaps in Mexico, according to some sources).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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2024 Honda Prologue<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2024 Honda Prologue<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2024 Honda Prologue<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As for the dedicated EV, it\u2019s likely to come from Honda\u2019s Ohio EV hub<\/a> and affiliated joining-venture battery firm with LG Energy Solution. Those facilities are also likely to build and supply vehicles from Afeela<\/a>, the joint-venture Sony-Honda EV brand.<\/p>\n

The new in-house \u201ce:Architecture\u201d platform is due to underpin multiple future EVs, Honda says, and it adopts a new electric and electronic (E&E) architecture that employs Honda\u2019s own vehicle operating system and in-vehicle software, including a new generation of user interface and digital services, due to be updatable through over-the-air updates through the product lifespan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Honda manufacturing around EVs and sustainability<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Honda’s last EV for the U.S., the Clarity Electric<\/a>, was only offered in a few West Coast states and was discontinued in 2020. But this time it’s showing signs that it’s all-in beyond a limited number to appease regulators. The company revealed that in North America, it\u2019s planning to roll out a SmartCharge energy business that \u201cutilizes the power supply capability of EVs\u201d\u2014perhaps indicating it plans home backup power functionality<\/a> or future bidirectional charging<\/a>. And it’s working to establish a value chain including procurement, recycling, resources, and raw materials that will help make its manufacturing operations more efficient and lower carbon impact.<\/p>\n

On the mobility front, Honda confirmed that it plans to launch its electric scooter called \u201cEM1 e:\u201d, with a swappable battery system, in Japan, Europe, and Indonesia before the end of 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Honda battery tech<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Honda also discussed three different battery possibilities that it plans to develop and perhaps introduce later in the decade. With GS Yuasa, it\u2019s developing high-capacity, high-output liquid lithium-ion batteries for EVs. It\u2019s developing semi-solid-state batteries with the battery-tech company SES. And it\u2019s planning to establish a demonstration line for its own all-solid-state batteries<\/a> in 2024, to be introduced in the second half of the 2020s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The timeline has been pulled earlier for Honda\u2019s first dedicated electric vehicle engineered in-house for high-volume production. That yet-unnamed mid- to large-sized EV built on \u201cHonda\u2019s original dedicated EV platform\u201d will go on sale in 2025 for North America\u2014stepped up from a targeted 2026\u2014top Honda executives revealed as part of a company update held Wednesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}