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.

  • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38•1 year ago

    They’ve also targeted maternal instincts. You can’t get a mother to look at a car unless the hood is taller than someone else’s child.

    • @lvl13charlatan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Also car seats are enormous and don’t fit well into compact cars unless the passenger side seat is all the way up and maybe not even then. Good luck if you have more than one kid that needs a car seat too.

        • @lvl13charlatan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          I’m just explaining why parents might opt for a larger car especially if they have multiple children. It used to be mini vans, now it’s SUVs or crossovers which are probably not much bigger than station wagons.

          • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            They’re needlessly taller. That’s why I mentioned the hood height. You lose fuel economy and you make it more dangerous for kids crossing at cross walks.