Honda Partners with General Motors to Develop Two New Electric Vehicles, Launch Expected in 2023

Despite the COVID-19 outbreak placing the automotive business’s manufacturing operations on maintain as workers are ordered to remain at dwelling, Honda remains to be drawing up plans for its electrical car lineup. The firm introduced that it’s working with General Motors to create two of its model new EVs.

Honda will likely be behind the “unique interior and exterior designs” which will likely be constructed and powered by GM’s international EV platform and batteries. Both will likely be manufactured at GM crops in North America.

Though each EVs are within the very early levels of creation and specs haven’t but been decided, as a result of they’re being developed collectively, every may have tech from each corporations built-in inside like GM’s OnStar providers and HondaHyperlink.

As this partnership “will unlock economies of scale to accelerate our electrification roadmap and advance our industry-leading efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” based on Honda govt VP Rick Schostek, the corporate is presently in discussions with GM to proceed such a partnership past this pair of EVs.

When the fashions launch within the subsequent few years, they are going to have 2024 mannequin yr designations and be bought within the US and in Canada.