“Dive” headlong into the electric vehicle market, Honda plans to launch three new vehicle platforms in the area by 2030, one of which, according to inside information, will be developed jointly with General enginesresponsible for the consecrated Chevrolet, Cadillac, buickamong other brands.

They will introduce an electric mini-commercial vehicle in Japan in 2024, with another launch in North America in 2026, according to Shinji Aoyama, the Japanese manufacturer’s global head of electrification. The information was collected by Reuters. After that, work with GM will come, starting in 2027.

The partnership between Honda and General Motors is nothing new, as they already unveiled the idea of ​​jointly producing “affordable electric vehicles” for the global market in early April, without detailing many aspects.

“Whether they will be based on a Honda design or a GM platform has yet to be decided,” Aoyama told the British news agency. “We do not decide which factories [ou] what will be produced, but we will separate the production process to allow cars to be built in any plant, be it Honda or GM.”

The intention of the company to create models known throughout the world as civil and agreement must produce at least two million electric vehicles by 2030, including the midsize vehicles GM is working on.

According to Aoyama, the battery used by Honda for cars will be UltiumGeneral Motors, which manufacturers call “an even more advanced generation”, but their specifications have not yet been finalized.

In terms of regional markets, the executive said the brand is targeting EV production in North America and China, which will be 750,000 to 800,000 EVs in 2030 and 400,000 to 500,000 in Japan and other markets around the world.

Honda vehicles are manufactured in Brazil at the Itirapina (SP) facility, while General Motors produces vehicles more locally, in Argentina, Colombia and Ecuador. The partnership center has not yet been identified, but specialized sites such as Motor1 suggest that it could be a former Japanese plant in Sumar (St. Petersburg) or a GM plant in Rosario (Argentina).

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Source: UOL, Motor1