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2024 Honda Prologue: Japan’s most American brand gets serious about EVs

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After 12 to 18 months of GM delay in getting its Ultium vehicles into series production—through an inability to scale up the automated assembly of battery modules using new equipment—in October 2023 Honda canceled plans for a previously-announced second GM partnership to develop less costly, more affordable EVs using next-gen technology.

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KPMG survey finds global auto execs ranking fuel efficiency the top consumer priority

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The 2011 KPMG survey also finds the auto industry heavily investing in future technology, new products and safety improvements. The vehicle categories seeing the most significant response increases in the 2011 survey compared with 2010 were SUVs, luxury vehicles, large pick-up trucks, and cross-overs. Investments.

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2024 Honda Prologue: Japan’s most American brand gets serious about EVs – Charged EVs

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After 12 to 18 months of GM delay in getting its Ultium vehicles into series production—through an inability to scale up the automated assembly of battery modules using new equipment—in October 2023 Honda canceled plans for a previously-announced second GM partnership to develop less costly, more affordable EVs using next-gen technology.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ). Reuters ) 1/8/07 Indefatigable auto entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin, no longer planning to import Chinese-made cars to the U.S.,

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All the best EV (and PHEV) rebate deals we could find for February 2025

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Cynics will point at big rebates and claim they mean the vehicle isnt selling, but that just exposes them as auto industry noobs. A rebate is powerful finance tool that helps dealers overcome obstacles like negative equity, poor credit, down payment requirements, and interest rate objections and, ultimately, get a deal done.

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