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

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (37 children)

Crazy to see how far behind Japanese car manufacturers are getting these days. Japan disrupted the auto market and made small, fuel efficient, cars popular. Now Honda and Toyota are starting to feel like 70’s Detroit.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Meanwhile Hyundai and Kia are absolutely smashing it (in Europe and Asia) with their cheap, reliable cars

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hyundai knowingly left an easy exploit to hotwire their cars in for several years. The redesigned a few cars to try to rebrand after fixing it, but they cut corners there too, and now they're in the middle of recalling the Tuscan for exploding batteries.

Sorry, Hyundai isn't a role model here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He is referring to the EV cars as in the topic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

He's also shifted from NA to Europe. So...

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