Articles tagged "Honda"

Honda, just like Toyota, have been quite late to the EV race, very late in fact. While other legacy automakers got the memo early and shifted into higher gears, Honda was still dreaming about gasoline engines and entertaining the possibility of the...

Sony and Honda just took a major step forward in their joint EV journey by unveiling the name of the brand and its first electric vehicle. Afeela is the name for the first production model of the joint venture and we saw the first concept on stage...

Sony Honda Mobility has not revealed much about its forthcoming vehicle, but what little it has shared has generated excitement. The joint venture plans to start manufacturing its first electric vehicle in 2026, with a focus on North American...

Sony Honda Mobility (SHM), a joint venture by Sony and Honda will make a major announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on January 4, the two companies confirmed today. As Sony confirmed the date and time for its CES 2023...

If you are in the EV or smartphone news cycle, you can't possibly have missed the Sony-Honda joint venture that aims to deliver a smart EV in the very near future. Now Sony posted a short YouTube teaser, that the two companies will give us a...

Japanese companies and especially Honda have been rather slow to get on the EV train so far, but things seem to be finally ramping up in recent times. Today Honda announced that it entered an agreement with CATL, the China-based world's biggest...

Honda's N-Van was introduced back in 2018 with a gasoline-powered engine with just 0.7-liter displacement, but in 2024, the cute van is getting a fully-electric version. The Japanese automaker says it's versatile enough for commercial and personal...

While the next incarnation of NSX is still years away, the company needs to keep its Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio busy developing cars of the future. The boffins at Honda decided that the factory with its highly skilled teams of...

Sony and Honda are pressing ahead with their joint venture to build electric cars after Sony introduced its Vision-S 02 prototype at the CES 2022 and received a very warm reception from the public. Both companies realize very well that the electric...

Sony and Honda have announced the formation of a joint venture earlier this year, tasked with jointly developing EVs, where Sony will be responsible for the mobility platform and Honda for the manufacturing. This will result in a new company that...

Sharp edges amplified by thin LED lights and small windows are the future Honda seems to be interested in. The latest concept e:N2 borrows its design cues from the e:N GT concept and takes them a few steps further. The e:N2 has been designed...

During a recent interview in Tokyo, the CEO of Honda was asked a series of questions about Civic Type-R and the possibility of it going electric. The answers given by Toshiro Mibe were more than encouraging. Is the electric Type-R coming soon? Not...

Sony and Honda announced that their first EVs will be ready for consumers in early 2026. The US market will be the first one to get the premium EVs while Japan will get them in late 2026. They see the US market as an opportunity to sell its...

Honda partially introduced the Prologue today - a large SUV that should hit the roads in 2024. We say partially because we only have a couple of images and some basic specs to work with. It is designed in the Honda Design Studio in Los Angeles and...

First generation Honda NSX broke the status quo, it took on seasoned supercars and it won at their game. It was a timeless piece of engineering that commands 6 figure prices for a decent example nowadays, if you can find one. The second...

Honda China, GAC Group and Dongfeng Motor signed an agreement to set up HDG Beijing Trading Service Co Ltd. This new joint-venture will handle battery procurement on behalf of the three companies. Honda, who already has a JV with both of the...

Today in South Korea, Honda and LG Energy announced a joint venture they're creating for the US market. This joint venture will be tasked with establishing a plant for EV batteries in the US. The batteries made there will be used to power Honda...

It’s Friday and there is no better day for some bright news - brightest news this week in fact. Acura is planning to unveil the Precision concept on August 18 at the Monterey Car Week and the company has released the first teaser of the upcoming...

GAC (Guangzhou Automobile Group) and Honda's joint venture has premiered its first car, the GAC Honda e:NP1 in China. It's based on the e:N Architecture F, built for front-wheel-drive EVs with two power options - 134kW (180hp) and 150kW (201hp)....

Sony and Honda have settled on a name for their evenly split joint venture - meet Sony Honda Mobility Inc. We guess Honda drew the short stick. The newly-minted CEO of the partnership will be Honda exec Yasuhide Mizuno, while Sony's EVP, Izumi...