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Honda’s global electrification plans include sports cars, solid-state batteries and a new EV platform.

Honda has committed to launching 30 new pure-electric vehicles globally as part of an ambitious electrification strategy announced today.

Honda has outlined its shift to electrification, pledging to achieve annual EV production volumes of more than two million units by 2030, ushering in solid-state battery technology and launching a pair of all-electric sports car flagships.

Honda aims to achieve net carbon neutrality by 2050 but says “a multi-faceted and multi-dimensional approach” to electrification is needed, “not a mere replacing of engines with batteries”.

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To this end, it will allocate a portion of a committed eight trillion yen (AUD$85.5bn) R&D budget to developing hydrogen powertrains and battery-swapping hardware as a means of facilitating the phase-out of combustion powertrains over the next 10 years. Some five trillion yen (AUD$54bn) is reserved exclusively for “electrification and software technologies”.

Honda has also given initial details of its rapid-fire global EV roll-out in the run-up to 2030, which most shockingly looks to include an all-electric successor to the Honda NSX supercar and a new grand tourer flagship.

“Honda always has a passion to offer fun for its customers,” the firm said, giving no details of the new sports cars but promising they will continue to offer a “sports mindset and distinctive characteristics”.

The Honda NSX is currently in its third generation as a 421kW hybrid with a mid-mounted V6 and will bow out of production at the end of this year. This latest announcement is the first official indication that Honda plans to remain in the supercar segment as it transforms its business.

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Honda is the latest Japanese brand to commit to offering dedicated sports cars in the electric era. Toyota has previewed a lightweight two-seater in the vein of the MR2, Lexus is working on an EV follow-up to the LFA, Nissan recently showed the drop-top Max Out concept and Subaru revealed a 1073bhp 4WD EV racer called the STI E-RA.

Meanwhile, in North America Honda will launch two ‘mid-to-large’ electric SUVs in partnership with General Motors (one called the Honda Prologue and the other from its Acura premium brand) in 2024, and three years later will launch a range of ‘affordable’ EVs with “a cost and range that will be as competitive” as petrol-fuelled cars. Honda also plans to open a new EV factory in North America.

In China it will launch a total of 10 new EVs by 2027 and in its home market, Japan, it will start with a small commercial EV, before introducing larger passenger cars, including a new electric SUV.

The first details of the brand’s European EV roll-out were given last month, when the firm confirmed it will launch a Honda HR-V-sized EV SUV in 2023 and is targeting a 40 per cent share of sales for EVs and fuel cell EVs by 2030 in Europe.

Honda will end combustion car sales globally by 2040.

Currently, Honda sources lithium ion batteries from an array of suppliers worldwide: EV development partner General Motors supplies its Ultium batteries for use in future US-market Honda EVs, CATL supplies the manufacturer’s Chinese operations and Envision AESC will power Honda’s small Japanese-market EVs.

But the marque has now detailed a plan to bring its own solid-state battery technology to market, investing the equivalent of $459 into the construction of a demonstration production line, which is planned to be in operation in spring 2024.

Honda plans to have EVs powered by solid-state batteries on sale in the second half of this decade.

At around the same time, in 2026, Honda will start rolling out a new software-integrated ‘e:Architecture’ EV platform, which will come with the latest generation of the firm’s Sensing autonomous driving functionality.

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