Honda posts first annual loss on $9B EV writedown, scraps EV sales goals

kristianp•about 3 hours ago

This makes me sad, I've been a fan of Honda cars, having learnt to drive in a Civic. Japanese car companies have been slow to adopt EVs, now BYD and other chinese makers will eat their breakfast. Not to mention the short-sightedness of the US stance on EVs.

cyanydeez•about 2 hours ago

I think the problem, beside the bizarre MAGA type anti-progress, is American EVs are all giant bloated vehicles (SUV brained) when the people more likely to purchase EVs are wanting the same kind of design from the 80's Japan compact cars.

If you're trying to maximize mileage, and minimize impact, why are you puting EV drives in oversized vehicles? It's just such a short sighted design goal. I get why the american automakers do it, but it just seems to clash with who would actually want to purchase EVs, the same as the japanese compacts in the 80s and 90s.

erxam•about 1 hour ago

>is American EVs are all giant bloated vehicles (SUV brained)

I don't exactly disagree with that assertion, but foreign EVs aren't really any better. Chinese EVs aren't meaningfully smaller, as a general rule. It's crossover hell all the time.

For whatever it's worth, the US has a better selection of non-SUV EVs than most other countries in the world.

dyauspitr•about 1 hour ago

I think that’s a small part of the problem.

The bigger problem is people not wanting to buy secondhand EV‘s because of perceived battery issues which really isn’t a huge problem like it used to be with first generation EVs.

The second huge issue is range anxiety. There are so many hoops you need to jump through in order to be able to charge in America. For instance, right now I’m charging at some 20 kW charger in the middle of West Virginia since I was on a road trip and I directed myself to a Tesla supercharger but this happens to be one of the few superchargers that does not support non-Tesla vehicles so now I’m stuck in a charging desert and I need 100 miles of range to get to the next one that actually supports no non-Tesla vehicles. The whole thing is a mess. There’s too much research involved in just going somewhere and charging your vehicle on the way. I don’t know why they don’t start putting EV charging signs on road signs like they have with gas stations.

Finally, I think the biggest problem is these EV‘s do not perform well in cold weather. China seems to have solved all of these problems, especially with their latest LFP technology, but it’s never gonna make its way over here because we have idiot, decrepit, corrupt MAGA in power right now and they’re too busy jacking off their billionaire oil dinosaurs.

Honda posts first annual loss on $9B EV writedown, scraps EV sales goals

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