Honda cancels plan for cheap electric vehicles, ending collaboration with GM
arstechnica.com
The platform was to use GM's Ultium batteries.

Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM::The platform was to use GM’s Ultium batteries.

    • @bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
      13•1 year ago

      I mean, that’s my point. The used market isn’t all beater cars. There are almost new EVs available on the used market. 3 years ago they didn’t exist at all. The used market back then only had EVs with poor batteries, but these days you can find new cars in the used market with new batteries, but still at a massive price discount only for being used slightly.

      Many people still have the common idea that used EVs are risky, so the prices drop a lot from very little use. Also because the technology in new cars evolves very quickly, so you can get last years models considerably cheaper.

    • KushanEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      I picked up a used EV with about 20,000 miles on it and it still felt like new.

      • @PersnickityPenguin@lemm.eeEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        My EV has almost 70,000 miles on it, and it drives like it’s new. The seats and the suspension aren’t quite there though.

      • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        My current (ice) vehicle I got with about that and it also was practically new. Only problem was a chip in the windshield that I had to get replaced when it grew into a large crack, and we honestly aren’t certain if that even predated our purchasing the vehicle