Honda turned to GM<\/a><\/span><\/strong> to help speed up its entry into the battery-electric market. Until relatively recently, the automaker primarily was focused on alternatives, including hybrids, plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt is now ramping up its EV efforts under new CEO Toshihiro Mibe, who wants to have all-electric models account for at least 40% of its U.S. sales by the end of the decade \u2014 though Honda remains committed to other forms of electrification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More to come<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Honda and GM are accelerating their alliances. The two are moving ahead on plans to develop new entry-level models aimed to come in at under $30,000, targeting mainstream buyers. Currently, only the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Bolt compete in that price range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GM earlier this year said it would end production of the current Bolt line by the end of 2023. But CEO Mary Barra last week said a new Bolt is in development. It may be based on the new platform GM is developing with Honda, said Sam Fiorani, chief analyst, AutoForecast Solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Additional versions of that entry model are expected to be sold by both the Acura and Honda brands, said Fiorani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The long-awaited 2024 Acura ZDX will make its formal debut during Monterey Car Week Aug. 17. Get the latest news at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,8,5,1608,2648,1347,9],"tags":[11796,696,7418,1325,11797,6879],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246096,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246091\/revisions\/246096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246091"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=246091"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=246091"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=246091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}