- Honda announced plans to sell a new electric vehicle model in North America starting in 2025.
- Unlike the 2024 Prologue, which uses GM’s EV platform, this car will use Honda’s own EV architecture.
- It’s described as a “medium to large” vehicle, but we don’t have any details on its name or specs.
Honda is currently relying on General Motors to bring its new electric SUV to market, but the Japanese automaker is also working on its own electric vehicle platforms. While the 2024 Prologue uses GM’s Ultium battery platform, Honda has just announced that a second electric model using Honda’s own platform will follow in 2025 for North America. It’s described as a “mid-to-large” electric vehicle and will use Honda’s new electric platform, called e:Architecture.
We strongly suspect this EV will be some sort of SUV, possibly even a three-row crossover to fit above the two-row, five-seat Prologue. While Honda hasn’t released any images or illustrations hinting at the styling of this model, the image above shows one of the company’s Chinese EV concepts as part of Honda’s specific e:N lineup for this market. Although Honda’s China-market electric vehicles, including this e:N SUV concept, use a separate platform called e:N Architecture W, there may be some shared components. Honda could also decide to share this EV design language globally, even if the new model based on e:Architecture will be for the US market.
We think it’s likely that the Prologue, plus its Acura sibling, the ZDX, will be sold alongside this new Honda-developed model for some time. Honda and GM’s partnership won’t just be a temporary stopgap measure, as the two automakers have already announced an additional collaboration for a “new series” of electric compact SUVs that will be sold in the U.S. starting by 2027. Honda has also promised two electric sports cars, but did not provide a timetable for their arrival.
Either way, it’s clear that Honda’s electric vehicle plans are intensifying as the company embarks on its quest to sell only electric and fuel cell vehicles by 2040. The tentative goals of the company for North America are for electric models to account for 40 percent of Honda’s sales. in 2030, 80% in 2035 and 100% in 2040.
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Despite being raised on a steady diet of base-model Hondas and Toyotas, or perhaps because of it, Joey Capparella cultivated an obsession with the automotive industry throughout his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee. He found a way to write about cars for the school newspaper during his college years at Rice University, which led him to move to Ann Arbor, Michigan for his first professional writing gig. automatic a Automotive magazine. It has been part of the Car and driver team since 2016 and now lives in New York City.
