GM and Honda have just established a “strategic alliance” here in North America, which can come with selling cars together.If that means we’re going to get a Chevy-branded Honda E, count on me!All this and more at The Morning Shift on September 3, 2020.
I don’t know if you’re the Honda Passport of the 1990s and early 2000s, based on Isuzu Trooper, however, it’s the last serious partnership between Honda and GM that I can think of.I can’t say, but I hope we may not get another Passport scenario from this agreement, announced today with few details.
The two corporations said earlier this year that they would jointly manufacture two new electric cars after that, before that, saying they would paint in combination with batteries.
According to Honda’s press today:
General Motors and Honda announced today that they signed a non-binding MEMORANDUM of Understanding following initial in-depth discussions to identify an American automotive alliance.The scope of the proposed partnership includes a diversity of cars for sale under the company’s various brands, as well as cooperation in purchases, studies and progression and connection services.
As a component of the proposed alliance, Honda and GM will collaborate in segments in North America, with the goal of sharing non-unusual vehicle platforms, adding electrified propulsion and internal combustion systems that align with vehicle platforms.immediately, with engineering paints from early 2021.
The announcement builds on the agreement signed between corporations in April to jointly expand two new electric cars with the Honda logo, founded on GM’s global highly flexible electric vehicle platform powered by Ultium batteries.The GM-Honda relationship, which began more than two decades ago, includes a recent collaboration between corporations on fuel cells, batteries and the Cruise Origin shared autonomous vehicle.
As satisfied as I’d be, it means we’d have a Honda E hurriedly reworked like, I don’t know, a new Chevy Vega, I think it’s going to end up with an all-electric Honda crossover.
The Financial Times has put a framework for this story that is approaching the point in a report entitled, “The appetite for cars in the UK is shrinking as the pandemic tightens finances.”
The story is about an Auto Trader survey in the UK that found that buyers were less interested in electric vehicles, as the global pandemic wiped out our tasks and our sense of safety in tasks:
A survey of 2,300 consumers conducted through Auto Trader in January revealed that 16% planned to buy only one battery-held car, but in an August survey of 2,700 people, only 4% of a purely electric car.
The meat can be summed up in a few lines:
“In an era of economic uncertainty, car buyers are returning to the type of cars they know as the maximum productive and what is the maximum affordable option, i.e. gasoline and diesel cars,” said Ian Plummer, advertising director of Auto Trader.
“Since the charge is the biggest focus for maximum car buyers, the initial retail value of electric cars [electric cars] is unpleasant.”
It’s a very long way of saying that electric cars are too expensive.Automakers like to communicate how new technologies and progression are lowering the prices of the electric cars they design, but they say they can simply move all their tails to simpler, less sumptuous electric vehicle designs right now.
Speaking of! Nissan announced that it believes it has uncovered tactics to lower carbon fiber by allowing more mass-produced carbon, as reported through Jiji Press in Nippon.com:
Its new generation will shorten the time it takes to shape portions of some 80 traditional PCT strategies for making CFRP pills.The prices in question will also be lower.The use of CFRP portions will make a vehicle 80 kilograms lighter, according to the company.
Auto brands are currently competing to expand electric vehicles, but face the challenge of reducing the weight of those vehicles equipped with engines and batteries.
Nissan can also lighten your cars through 80 pounds by making them all a little smaller, but that doesn’t make it a fun press release.
The march towards replacing truck drivers with robots continues and Daimler announced that it is expanding its tests in the United States for autonomous semi-trailers.Excerpt from your press release:
September 2020 marks a year of partnership between Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics as a team after the US-based automated driving generation company.But it’s not the first time He joined Daimler Trucks’ independent generation organization.A year together, pursuing the unusual purpose of bringing highly automated trucks mass-produced.(SAE level four) to roads during the decade; adding the deployment on the road of a Level Four verification fleet, launching the truck chassis review, adopting a center-to-center model, formalized rigorous verification protocols, a formal truck protection driving force certification procedure, and extensive software capabilities.In the future, the autonomous generation organization will expand its control in New Mexico by building a new control center in Albuquerque.The expansion to a new location will enable verification and knowledge for greater use of next-generation vehicles on public roads starting this fall.
This is not strictly automotive news, but about automobile considerations and also post-colonialism, a heady subject for the auto industry. The story is that French oil giant Total is going through a rough patch with its oil fields in Mozambique and is stepping up seemingly bad security measures, as reported via the Financial Times:
After IS-linked insurgents regained a key port in northern Mozambique last month, Total said it would provide logistical assistance to a joint government “working group” for the safety of liquefied herbal fuel facilities.would be led through Mozambique’s defense and home ministries, which oversee the army and police.
“This is a turning point” in the “iraqification” of the conflict, said Piers Pigou, representative for South Africa at International Crisis Group.Total’s security agreement, which will allow the defense of its amenities on the Afungi Peninsula in Cape Delgado province, underscored “the risks of security covering the green [LNG development] zone and very recently for the rest of the country,” he said.
It is a sensitive, sensitive factor to the extent that no one is smart on either side, which is just some of the damage it suffers when massive foreign corporations extract resources from the poorest.
Throughout history:
On September 3, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson embarked on a U.S. tour to announce the American club in the League of Nations, a foreign organization he hoped would help foreign conflicts and save him from another bloody world war as the country had just left World War I.The tour had a massive effect on Wilson’s health.
I don’t know how we can get the S660 here, but I’ll never help but dream.
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