EV expansion
Honda has shed light on its electrification plans. The European market remains remarkably underexposed.
Honda wants to sell only fully electric cars and cars with a fuel cell on board from 2040 worldwide. Until 2030, Honda will launch no less than 30 new electric models worldwide. Honda is already highlighting part of this, but the European market is not included in Honda’s outlook.
Next year, Honda will start selling the Prologue in the United States, an electric SUV that was developed in collaboration with General Motors. Together with General Motors, Honda also wants to introduce many more electric models. But there’s more. Honda is also launching an electric SUV in the United States that makes full use of its own technology. That will be a medium to large SUV that will be on Honda’s E&E base. It is scheduled for 2025.
Then the Chinese market. In China, the e:NS2 and e:NP2 will go on sale early next year, electric models that the brand was already looking forward to during Auto Shanghai earlier this month. Before the end of this year, Honda will launch several production models in China inspired by the e:N SUV Concept, which the brand presented simultaneously with the e:NS2 and e:NP2 in China. Until around 2027, Honda will bring no less than ten new electric models to the Chinese market in China, including the newcomers mentioned. By 2035, Honda will only sell electric cars in China. Honda has not yet set such a deadline for other markets.
In Japan, Honda will also release a series of new electric models in the coming years. It will arrive there in the first half of 2024 with an electric version of the kei company car N-Van and in 2025 even with an electric car based on the retro little one N-One. A year later – in 2026 – Honda will launch two more small EVs for the Japanese market, including a compact SUV.
In Europe, Honda currently only sells one electric model: the electric Honda e. The brand previously announced that it will launch an electric alternative to the HR-V this year, but what else is in the EV pipeline for the European market is not yet known. Honda is also working with Sony on electric cars. The first of these will come in 2026 and may also appear on European territory.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl