Honda Ends Partnership with GM for Electric Vehicle Development

What the hell is Honda thinking these days? After a decade of sitting on its thumbs while the EV revolution swirled around it, it decided it had better link up with some other big car company to get back in the game. That led to a partnership with General Motors which would allow Honda to use GM’s Ultium platform and batteries to build electric cars alongside the Cadillac Lyriq at the former Saturn factory in Spring Hill , Tennessee .is the first car to come from that collaboration.

— which will allow drivers to combine the joy of driving with the thrill of playing games on a Play Station. Be still my beating heart!As if all this backing and filling wasn’t enough, Honda announced this week that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with archrival Nissan to co-develop electric cars and the electronics associated with them. According to the, the details of the agreement — which is non-binding — are still being worked out.

, “It’s two Japanese laggards playing catch up. This highlights the threat from China to western car companies, including those in Japan, and the advantages that China has in being able to produce cars at 25% to 30% lower in price. The Chinese government has backed EV exports in a big way and you see more Chinese cars on the road as a result.”

Nissan and Renault have had a messy rupture in their corporate relations, with Renault moving aggressively to chart its own course in the highly competitive European market for electric cars. It recently took the wraps off a newof the Renault 5, a combustion engine car that was one of the best selling cars in France for many years. Having Carlos Ghosn, the head of the so-called Nissan/Renault Alliance, arrested and thrown into prison in Japan soured the relationship between the two companies.

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