I just saw the following headline from the Wall Street Journal: “Honda’s Never Faced a Crisis Like This—and a Comeback Won’t Be Easy.” The subheading is as follows: “The Japanese automaker reported a $2.7 billion loss amid EV whiplash in the U.S., its biggest market.” My first thought was basically … [continued]
Last May, Honda decided to “suspend” a massive EV factory it had planned to build in Canada, a blow to the North American EV market and overall EV transition. But why? “There are challenges with the US tariffs, unjustified tariffs in the auto sector,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said in … [continued]
Several trends emerged at Auto China, also known as the Beijing Auto Show. The number of new models and the speed that new technology was progressing was a bit overwhelming. However, one of the strongest and most interesting trends came from more established brands. The trend came into focus for … [continued]
EVs continues to push across the hurdles of a recalcitrant US market, with the Honda venture Fastport providing an example of perseverance in the pedal-powered micromobility sector (courtesy of Fastport Honda).
EVs continues to push across the hurdles of a recalcitrant US market, with the Honda venture Fastport providing an example of perseverance in the pedal-powered micromobility sector.
Uber has expanded its $4,000 “Go Electric” EV incentive plan across the US under a supplies-limited offer, helping to offset the loss of the federal tax credit.
Electric car sales are down significantly this year as the market remains “hung over” from the end of the $7,500 US EV tax credit. Several electric car models are seeing huge drops in consumer demand, and automakers have been pulling models off the market. The Honda Prologue is no exception … [continued]
Honda and Sony have canceled Afeela, the joint venture that was supposed to start selling new electric cars this year.
It feels like everyone in the EV space already wrote their hot takes on Honda’s massive $15.8 billion EV retreat when the news first broke, and then promptly moved on to the next news cycle. But after sitting with the announcement for the last week and a half, I realized … [continued]
We’ve seen it from a handful of automakers now. With Donald Trump and Republicans killing EV-friendly policies, they’ve decided to write off billions of dollars of EV investment (perhaps with a bunch of other things stuffed in there) and kill EV plans — whether that be new EV production lines … [continued]
Electric cars already have no tailpipe emissions, but even cleaner EVs — built with low-carbon steel, aluminium and batteries, and in a way that minimises harm to people, communities and the environment — are now within reach, according to a new ranking of the world’s largest carmakers. Crucially, this progress … [continued]
