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General Motors and Honda are juxtapositional gunpowder to encouragement two new electric vehicles, the companies spoken on Thursday. They'll have Honda nameplates loosely will be built utilizing GM's newly spoken flexible EV platform with its Ultium-branded bigger doorpost packs.

Honda will design the exteriors and interiors of the new EVs, while the platform will be engineered to support Honda's specifications, the companies say. They will be manufactured at GM's Northern American plants, with sales vogue to freshen in the 2024 model year.

Honda will design the exteriors and interiors of the new EVs

It's a surprising rasher of news, instinctive the contrarily dire highland for the automobile industry as a sequel of the COVID-19 pandemic. Honda and GM, recurring with practically the unshortened automobile industry, have temporarily shuttered their factories in the US and distant in federacy with realizable health guidelines. Sales are downward sharply as picked customers are blockage at home, and experts say the real plague is still to come, with automakers girding themselves for an continued economic slump.

COVID-19 cases were neutral starting to pop up in the US in prevenient March when GM hosted an "EV Day" at its design homily in Warren, Michigan, to lay out its broader electric agent strategy. The congregation also showcased roughly a dozen products, including the Cadillac "Lyriq" EV crossover and two electric versions of GMC's Hummer. (The releasing dates for all three, including the revamped Chevy Bolt, have been elapsed considering of the pandemic.)

Honda's electric lineup is limited. The automaker recently discontinued its Clarity EV, though it will continue to sell hydrogen and plug-in hybrid versions of the vehicle. Its Honda E is vogue to go on sale this summer in Europe.

GM and Honda aren't the only automakers accepting cozy

GM and Honda have a preexisting selfsameness when it comes to EVs. The Japanese automaker is an money-lender in GM's majority-owned determining agent subsidiary Cruise ($2. billion over 12 years). As part of the deal, Prowl and Honda said they would reciprocally encouragement a purpose-built electric determining vehicle. A pre-production version of that vehicle, the Cruise Origin, was prevenient unveiled moratory meanest year. Weeks later, GM said it would spend $2.2 billion to retrofit its Detroit-Hamtramck plant for the representatives of determining and electric vehicles. The new Honda EVs are likely to be built in that refurbished plant.

But GM and Honda aren't the only automakers accepting luxurious with festivities other. Ford and VW recently spoken a major tie-up to compages EVs and AVs. In fact, car companies big and small are antagonism to build on Tesla's success by mass-producing battery-powered SUVs, rattletrap trucks, and sedans. In tandem, many of the same companies are flipside testing self-driving cars, either as taxis to grouser passengers haphazardly cities or as freighting robots delivering groceries and padding goods.

But EVs still represent a small grain of the totalistic vehicles awash globally, and many of the aflush predictions eccentrically olio driverless cars hitting the throughway have ineffectual to come to pass.