Japan’s Honda Motor said on Tuesday it is introducing a new electric vehicle brand in China, and will use components from local companies including CATL,
My insight to why is limited to what seemed like a tradeeoff where GM got info on how Hondas hydrogen powered research and development and in return GM shared theirs for batteries. A large percentage or engineers in Detroit are not sold on EVs, especially for things bigger than cars, or applications requiring more power density. If it wasn’t for government essentially forcing them to start transitioning to EVs, most of them wouldn’t be.
My insight to why is limited to what seemed like a tradeeoff where GM got info on how Hondas hydrogen powered research and development and in return GM shared theirs for batteries. A large percentage or engineers in Detroit are not sold on EVs, especially for things bigger than cars, or applications requiring more power density. If it wasn’t for government essentially forcing them to start transitioning to EVs, most of them wouldn’t be.