in March last year Honda and Sony from the cooperation between we promised. According to the official statement made today, Honda and Sony will establish a company for electric vehicle sales and mobility services within the scope of the partnership.
Planned to be established in Japan with a 50 percent partnership structure Sony Honda Mobility Inc. The company is expected to provide users with suitable products and solutions. Honda and Sony plan to complete the founding of the new company this year. In 2025, the companies announced that they started to work on the sale of electric vehicles and the implementation of mobility services. Senior executives of Honda and Sony made a statement on the subject.
Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe“As Honda, we will continue to challenge all social changes in the field of mobility and support entrepreneurs all over the world with our environmental, safe and advanced technologies. We are delighted to have signed a joint venture agreement with Sony, which has strengths in digital technology and shares our desire to meet new challenges. After the announcement in March, many people shared their expectations for this joint venture; In the new company, we will try to create new value through the combination of our activities in different industries.”
Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida “We are delighted to sign this joint venture agreement, which represents our great challenge to revolutionize mobility and create new value. We plan to make the most of the capabilities of the two companies, using Sony’s sensing technology and mobility technologies developed by Honda engineers for our customers. We aim to lead a new era by bringing together the expertise of both companies.”
Sony Vision-S 02 was introduced recently
Vision-S 02 at CES 2022 concept had come too. Taking its design line from the Vision-S, the Vision-S 02 appeared as an all-electric SUV model. We will share with you when new details about the car come.