While we entered the moment of the month of 2025, the production of Honda Techniques Bev in its former American factory in Marysville, Ohio, at the end of this year. This transition of $ 1 billion will begin with the recently shown meeting RSX EV, followed through the first two models in Diversity 0 of series 0. However, before that happens, Honda made an exclusive scale from its New EV media in OHIO, which included a new avant -garde technique for the meeting of modular vehicles, large mega press machines and a insightful preview of the positive has an effect on which Honda has established among citizens of citizens of citizens of Citizens of Citizens The state of Buckeye. You can see all my excursion in the video below.
While Honda is a global name synonymous with engines and mobility, it is still carving out its own legacy in the BEV segment. That process began with two initial all-electric models – the Honda Prologue and the Acura ZDX, both of which I’ve had the opportunity to test drive and share my impressions.
While those two models put some of Honda’s skin in the game, they are arguably only a fraction of Honda’s true design DNA, which it has since taken into its own hands looking forward. That future includes the Honda 0 Series, which was initially announced at CES 2024 as a “back to zero” mentality for the Japanese automaker.
Marysville, which spacing out Honda American’s first and longest production facility, will soon space out BEV production of the two models discussed above. First, however, Honda will begin to assemble an Acura All-Electric SUV that evolved from EV concept functionality, which we recently learned will be called the RSX.
Honda is still putting the finishing touches on a $1 billion overhaul of its new EV Hub in Ohio but invited a group of media out to tour multiple facilities and see where the first true Honda and Acura-built BEVs will be assembled, beginning later this year.
I documented my video next, but I will also break it into words for you.
As possibly or possibly did not know, the Honda EV hub is a component of an investment of one billion dollars through the Japanese car manufacturer to renew its existing installation in Ohio to produce electric vehicles. This includes the reinvention of 3 existing plants: the car Marysville Auto Planta (MAP), the Auto Liberty East (ELP) plant and the Anna engines plant (AEP).
During my EV Hub visit, we started at the Marysville Auto Plant, which originally opened in 1979 and has been building Honda cars since 1982, to see the progress the company has made in revamping a 40+ year old facility for the all-electric age while continuing to build ICE and plug-in vehicles.
What we have noticed was an exclusive technique for the meeting of fashion vehicles, in which Honda will soon be able to build ice, hybrid-electric and BEV in the same production line. In addition, the automobile manufacturer can accumulate or reduce any express configuration of the vehicle according to the demand of visitors. The main vice president, Honda Development & Manufacturing of America, LLC, Bob Schwyn spoke with the media before joining us, Marysville’s tour:
The Honda EV Hub provides Honda with the flexibility to produce ICE, hybrid-electric and EV models on the same production lines so we can quickly respond to shifting customer needs and market conditions. Beyond adding the capability to produce EVs, we completely reimagined our approach to manufacturing, transforming the Honda production environment with more human-friendly processes and sustainable manufacturing practices.
As you will see on my video cover, Honda Construcion of battery before integrating them in cars in those same mounting chains. Starting with ACURA RSX.
As you can see in the image below, Honda has cleared out a massive amount of space for dedicated BEV component assembly, which required it to remove an entire existing build line and get creative about where to re-implement other manufacturing components in different parts of the plant – all while continuing to build non-BEV models.
Per the Honda team, the EV Hub will hire 300 new employees to specifically handle battery pack assembly at Marysville. The battery cases for those packs are built at Honda’s Anna Engine Plant, which I also got to visit and have detailed below. Those manufactured cases are then transported to Marysville, where trained Honda “Associates” will work alongside electric guided vehicles (EGVs) and robots to assemble Honda’s first-ever propriety EV platform.
Honda calls the process “Parallel module manufacturing,” which consists of a network of assembly cells performing assembly tasks in a multi-lateral manner in which if one cell is slow or completely down for some reason, production can continue.
According to Honda, the first batch of battery reunion cells installed in Marysville with a time to stay in 3 months. This will put Honda at its target release volume that can evolve from there based on demand.
After our tutorial around Marysville, we took a bus trip to Anna, Ohio, which is the house of the Anna de Honda engines, a key piece of your hub. However, AEP is also the new house of important machinery in Honda’s Bev Manufacturing.
Honda has installed five of its six planned 6,000-ton megacasting machines at AEP, which will die-cast the EV battery cases mentioned above and seen in the images below. The massive die-cast machines, each capable of 300 tons of pressure during a trim press, will be operated in pairs by Honda as soon as the last machine has been installed.
To move the Megacaste devices at the Anna engine factory, Honda had to expand the door of its plant. Then installed one to 4 devices, followed by number six, which only has operations a few weeks ago. Device five, which would have been on the way if it hadn’t been installed last, will soon arrive with plenty of time before production of the Acura RSX begins.
For me personally, it is wonderful to stop at AEP and see the megacaste in action because I can see the same device in the center of Honda d in Tochigi, Japan, the past fall. There, I said that six of those Megacaste devices would be installed in the Ohio Ev Hub.
A few months later, Honda is almost done with the installation process, and all 3 pairs will start pressing the front and rear battery boxes. While watching the Megacast device in action in Japan, from a distance. However, during my layover at the EV center, Honda took us to one of the devices where we can look at an EV battery housing and cut a lot. I documented it in my video below for you!
Another meeting strategy that I learned in Tochigi still occurred to see at the user of the Anna engines factory was the welding procedure of the Honda friction medal. This avant -garde approach produced high length welds to mix the two halves of the battery housing and the water jacket (seen below) while cutting the amount of power used and the thermal has an effect on the aluminum material.
This strategy and the general renewal of Honda of the EV Center are components of a wider three -pointed strategy called “Triple Action to Zero”. Its purpose is to achieve 0 environmental to have an effect in Via 2050 through carbon neutrality, white energy and resource motion. This implies all sales of 0 emissions through 2040.
After my to Marysville and Anna, walking the meeting lines and talking to Honda Associates about all of the company’s titles, I learned that a vestige of the American dream is still provided in Ohio. Marysville and Anna are blue-collar areas, and those cities have continued to evolve thanks to Honda’s resolve to plant roots in American soil more than 40 years ago.
Many other people who met my vacation have been with the corporate for longer than on this land, a generation of the moment, which grew seeing their parents grow throughout the company and its imprint of Ohio.
Although a giant component of the history of the American production of Honda is a bit fatty and dusty due to engines and combustion, the Hub Ev supplies a new link with the general initial mentality of Honda “Back to 0”. Actually I was inspired by Honda’s ability to rotate, reconsider and reuse his existing comforts to the addition of Bev’s production.
Moreover, the resolution to enforce those assemblies in the same vein as Honda’s ice and loading cars sounds like an impossible dream on paper, but in person, the company turns out to have done it. Liberty and Anna to get there. Honda will continue to rely on affiliates as the technique on the day its first bespoke BEV on its own platform passes this Marysville rendezvous line.
With the existing political climate and schooling and understanding of electric cars still massive for Americans and many of the officials who govern them, the long run of BEV production is murky. This is terrifying, given our super progress over beyond the decade.
However, whether other people buy ice cars, hybrids, Phev or Bevs inside, Honda has agreed to adapt and the challenge (something that the corporate is proud) with its EV center.
I’ve now learned where, the timing and the how of Bev production at the Honda EV Hub, but I’m now in a position for what I’ve been told, the living room and 0-series SUV prototypes are “very close” to the final production design, but the Acura RSX remains a mystery aside from a camouflaged image.
I look forward to hearing more as soon as this SUV launches Honda production from Honda Hub at the end of 2025. Maybe I can do some other for Ohio and see it built before driving a moi-even. While we wait for this milestone, you can check out my video about hiking at the Marysville and Anna facility at the Honda EV Center below: