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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] 131 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (53 children)

As trade with North America and China degraded that was one of the worst casualties.

China has a booming market for small EVs. It is not an understatement to say they are years ahead of us in that regard.

What is it North America? Because you said I'm not allowed to have public transit and now I'm not even allowed to have the type of car I want.

Oh boy do I love freedom.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Oil companies invented a psyop in North America centered around male insecurity with their masculinity. That's why the best selling vehicle in North America is a massive gas guzzling pickup truck that the average person can't come close to affording but drives anyway.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who said anything about compacts? A modern station wagon would work great inplace of an SUV.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

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