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2024 Honda Prologue: Japan’s most American brand gets serious about EVs

Charged EVs

As it did in previous decades, Honda has used another maker’s car to enter a new US segment. Honda is often known as the world’s largest maker of internal combustion engines—more than 14 million of them a year. None of those were battery-electric vehicles, however. Is it really a Honda? Both were purely compliance cars.

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2024 Honda Prologue: Japan’s most American brand gets serious about EVs – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

As it did in previous decades, Honda has used another maker’s car to enter a new US segment. Honda is often known as the world’s largest maker of internal combustion engines—more than 14 million of them a year. None of those were battery-electric vehicles, however. Is it really a Honda? Both were purely compliance cars.

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Nissan and Honda confirm new EV partnership as they look to play catch up with Tesla, BYD

Baua Electric

Nissan and Honda are forming a new EV partnership after falling behind leaders like Tesla and China’s BYD. Nissan and Honda form EV partnership to keep pace Yesterday, Electrek reported that Nissan and Honda were considering partnering up to introduce more affordable EVs. It’s official.

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Dealer Groups are Up In Arms About Potential for Scout and Sony Afeela to Sell Cars Directly to Buyers

The Truth About Cars

Dealers are often the first group to sound concerns when something changes in the auto industry, whether they’re justified in their complaints or not. If they want to sell the vehicles direct, it’s going to be an incredibly difficult battle.” At the same time, VW is moving to bring the Cupra brand to the U.S.,

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China’s BYD Says Prospective Mexican Plant Won’t Export to U.S.

The Truth About Cars

But that plan is for the site to boast a production capacity of 150,000 vehicles annually, with none being slated for export to the United States. But it’s also difficult to assume the vehicle it’s leading with would have been a sales success in the United States. However, the Chinese government has placed U.S.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle.

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BYD offers discounts for Song and Seal as China's auto price war intensifies

CN EV Post

Image from BYD's Weibo) As the price war intensifies in China's auto industry, BYD has also started offering discounts for its two models, even though the official prices remain unchanged. Consumers who order BYD 's Song Plus lineup this month will receive a discount of RMB 6,800, or RMB 8,800 for the Seal.

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