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Honda plans to add additional electric vehicle
models as it aims to have sold a total of 500,000 electric
vehicles in the United States by 2030, and to achieve 100% zero
emission vehicles sales in North America by 2040.
It comes as President Joe Biden signed an executive order last
month setting a target to make half of all new passenger
vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles.
The Honda Prologue is being co-developed with General Motors Co
and is based on the Detroit automaker's Ultium platform, a
modular platform and battery system. Honda and GM are also
co-developing an electric Acura-brand SUV.
GM will assemble the Prologue and the Acura SUV -- both of which
will go on sale in 2024 -- but Honda has not disclosed which
plant will build the vehicles or the name or volume targets for
the Acura.
Following the GM-built models, Honda will introduce a series of
electrified vehicles through 2030 based on the Honda developed
e-Architecture, a new EV platform led by Honda, and will
assemble electric vehicles at Honda plants in North America.
Dave Gardner, executive vice president of national operations at
American Honda Motor Co, said in a statement Honda will
initially focus Prologue sales on California and other states
like Texas and Florida.
He said Honda plans to add hybrid-electric systems to more U.S.
models.
"Our strategy is focused on introducing a higher percentage of
hybrids in core models in the near term, making a committed
effort to achieve higher volume leading to the introduction of
our Honda Prologue," Gardner said.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Ana Nicolaci da
Costa)
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