What the hell is Honda thinking these days? After a decade of sitting on its thumbs while the EV revolution swirled around it, it decided it had better link up with some other big car company to get back in the game. That led to a partnership with General Motors which would allow Honda to use GM’s Ultium platform and batteries to build electric cars alongside the Cadillac Lyriq at the former Saturn factory in Spring Hill, Tennessee.is the first car to come from that collaboration.
An Acura badged sibling is also in the works and that’s it. So far as we know, the vaunted Honda/GM partnership is over. Last fall, Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said, “After studying this for a year, we decided that this would be difficult as a business, so at the moment we are ending development of an affordable EV. GM and Honda will search for a solution separately. This project itself has been canceled.” That’s sounds pretty final! Earlier this year, Honda made waves when it said it would invest a whopping $14 billion to manufacture EV batteries and up t