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.

  • partial_accumenEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    4 times longer refueling is crazy that’s only 80 percent versus 100 % refueling.

    Imagine instead every week having to make a special trip with your vehicle to a designated location where you have to interact with a point-of-sale that is trying to upsell you car washing services or loyalty program enrollment with a good chance of skimmers installed on credit card readers.

    You then have to dispense gallons of fluid of highly flammable liquid which you, in the week ahead, will turn into carbon dioxide that will slowly alter the climate of your planet to the point that hundreds of species of plants and wildlife die off.

    On the financial side, the price of the liquid is so variable that it can change multiple times a day based on market demands and world events. Your country may go to war to ensure you getting that liquid. There will be deaths of your countryman to make sure you get that liquid.

    Instead, I pull the car into the garage and plug a cable in. When I get in the car the next day, its full. So yes, one of these sounds crazy, but not the one you say it is.

    • @DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Your privilege is showing. I live in an apartment so I would have to make a separate trip and sit around for 40 minutes to fill the car up 80%…

      • @PersnickityPenguin@lemm.eeEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        So talking about privilege, let’s go back to the part where multiple countries have killed millions of people over that magic flammable liquid. Trillions of dollars have been spent in extracting, transporting, refining, and transporting again to byproducts of these flammable, toxic liquids.

        Hell, I personally have three classmates from elementary school who died in another country trying to extract that flammable liquid from the ground from another country.

        • @DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Completely agree. Not a fan of that or capitalism but I’m living in the real world which requires me to use the system. Electric cars aren’t there for me yet.

      • @AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I know someone who does that and it’s manageable even if inconvenient. He only needs to go once a week and can find something to do for an hour