This month, Honda introduced it might team up with GM to promote thousands and thousands of co-developed “reasonably priced” EVs. And final month, Honda mentioned it can associate with Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp. to market co-developed EVs from 2025.
The two million EVs that Honda expects to supply in 2030 characterize about 40 p.c of that 12 months’s 5 million-vehicle international output plan. However the Japanese carmaker, which now sells about 4.5 million automobiles a 12 months worldwide, has an extended approach to go earlier than going pure BEV.
To this point, it has offered solely 32,678 battery-electrics, cumulatively, since advertising its first, the Honda EV Plus, in 1997. Nearly half of these gross sales, 14,324, got here in 2021 alone.
The automaker has made a a lot greater dent with hybrids, a section it helped pioneer with the Perception. It has offered 3.91 million hybrids cumulatively through the years, together with 561,165 gasoline-electrics in 2021.
The limited-run EV Plus, a squat three-door microcar, was Honda’s first EV, however the battery-powered model of the low-selling Readability sedan was the primary to be marketed within the U.S.
At the moment, its solely all-electric providing for worldwide gross sales is the Honda e city runabout. It has offered 8,729 of these subcompact hatchbacks in Europe and Japan via the tip of 2021, together with 4,171 final 12 months. Honda additionally sells three domestically centered EV fashions within the China market.
