Honda plans a $20 billion pivot to hybrids
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Honda revises EV strategy, prioritizes hybrids, ADAS, cost efficiency, and sustainability, aiming for carbon neutrality and safer mobility by 2050.
Honda said it will focus on its next-generation Hybrid EVs to be introduced into market from 2027 onward, after dropping proposed investment in EVs to 7 trillion yen, or $48.3 billion.
The company is walking back some of its long-term electrification plans, cutting 3 trillion yen (about $20.8 billion) from its investment in electric cars over the next six years. Instead, it’s shifting focus to hybrids,
The Japanese automotive giant says it now expects around 20 per cent of its car sales to be electric by 2030, rather than 30 percent, amid dwindling demand.