Japanese companies and especially Honda until now electric vehicle he was pretty slow getting on his train, but things have been working lately finally accelerating looks like. Today Honda is headquartered in China world’s largest battery manufacturer CATL announced that it has signed an agreement for future battery purchases with
This new deal is Honda’s starting from 2024 For pure electric vehicles from CATL by 2030 123 GWh battery says he will buy it. The batteries in question will be manufactured at CATL’s production base in Yichun, East Jiangxi Province, China. They’ll be used in Honda vehicles to be sold in China, where we’ve seen a few under the company’s e:N sub-brand.
for example e:NP1, produced through a joint venture with Chinese GAC. That’s not surprising given that Honda’s Prologue, its first electric vehicle for western markets, is also a sort of joint venture, as it also uses GM’s Ultium platform. The idea behind this strategy is that Honda’s vehicles 100% in-house to ensure that it gains a solid footing in the electric vehicle game faster than it otherwise would be.