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Honda is killing its EVs — and any chance of competing in the future | TechCrunch
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Honda is killing its EVs — and any chance of competing in the future | TechCrunch

TechCrunch·Tim De Chant·6 months ago
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I get it; it’s not an easy time for a legacy automaker to be selling electric vehicles, what with incentives being gutted and Chinese automakers knocking at the door. But Honda is taking it to another level. This week, Honda killed its paltry — and frankly unpromising — EV programs. What little motivation Honda had to compete in the EV arena is apparently gone, and along with it, any chance of surviving the current wave of disruption that’s sweeping the industry. The company casts blame on U.S. tariffs and Chinese competition, two easy targets. But it never really had a viable EV strategy to begin with. Honda kicked things off on Thursday by halting development of the electric Acura RDX and the Honda 0 sedan and SUV, three models that were the company’s first ground-up EVs — but very little was shared with outsiders about them.…

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