Future Honda, Acura EVs To Utilize GM Ultium Batteries, Ultium Motors
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Honda has provided more information on the battery electric vehicles that General Motors will build on behalf of the Japanese automaker, confirming the EVs will utilize GM Ultium batteries and Ultium Drive electric motors.
GM Ultium battery pack
Dave Gardner, executive vice president of national operations at American Honda, told Automotive News this week that GM will build it two EVs for the 2024 model year, with one to be sold under the mass-market Honda brand and the other falling under the premium Acura umbrella. Both vehicles will use GM Ultium lithium-ion batteries and GM Ultium Drive electric motors, “but everything above the platform will be uniquely Honda and uniquely Acura,” Gardner said, indicating the crossovers will not utilize a GM platform or other GM parts bin components.
GM Ultium Drive motors
A previous report indicated GM would build one the Honda EV at its Ramos Arizpe Assembly plant in Mexico, while the Acura offering will be produced at its Spring Hill Assembly plant in Tennessee. GM is also investing $2 billion into Spring Hill in order to prepare it to produce its own electric vehicles, starting with the Cadillac Lyriq electric crossover next year. Not surprisingly, the Cadillac Lyriq and the unnamed future Acura EV are expected to have a similar footprint and overall size.
GM and Honda formed a new North American strategic alliance last year, which will allow the two companies to collaborate in several areas of business, including with regard to purchasing, research and development and connected services like GM OnStar. The automakers said the alliance will also see them “collaborate on a variety of segments in North America, intending to share common vehicle platforms, including both electrified and internal combustion propulsion systems that align with the vehicle platforms.”
More information on the EV crossovers that GM is building on behalf of Honda should become available as their 2024 arrival approaches.
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“Everything above the platform” sounds to me like the platform WILL be shared.
This, here ^^^^
“Everything above the platform,” sure sounds like the body and interior will be Honda but will utilize the BEV3 platform and equipment.
Honda will push that these are real Honda vehicles but everything making the go is all GM.
I expect a number of mfgs will turn deals like this.
Like computers with Intel inside many may be GM inside.
Jaguar is now looking to do exactly this. If BEV3 is good, GM may be positioning themselves very well.
That has been the plan all along is not just be a builder but a supplier.
Most automakers out there just can’t afford the development cost so buying what they need is a must.
Look if a company like Honda has to go to GM that is telling of how many companies will need help.
GM is becoming a technology company like Siemens apart from its brands, Brightdrop, new military division.
Barra has poorly managed us brands but has well positioned GM as a supplier which may prove lucrative as GM focuses on global mobility.
This has happened before. GM supplied automatic transmissions for Rolls-Royce.
Like others have said I think Honda will use the Bev3 platform
BEV3 and Ultium are a package deal as the platform is built specifically to house the batteries.
It would be counterintuitive for Honda to build it’s own platform around the battery packs when one, highly customizable platform is already available for them.
Just like the new Supra is uniquely Toyota. *wink wink*
the funny thing about the z4/supra is it seems like the supra got a hell of a lot more press out of it than the z4.
they are more or less the same car but i don’t recall reading a story about the z4 but there were tons of articles written about the supra.
Toyota has many more marketing connections also they spend a lot on advertising and that influences what stories get done too.
Shareholders should be outraged at traitor Mary.
I’ll bite. Why should they be outraged?
And what makes her a traitor?
Japan would kill Americans if they could. Remember WW2?
Selling GM technology to the enemy! Only a liberal would do that!
And why exactly should shareholders be outraged? For gm deciding to go after a market that is the future and capitalizing on their own research and success? For being able to market their products not only to their own base but to their competitors and make a profit? For making this all happen and having these same shareholders making money from this decision?
I’m not sure how you are arriving at your opinion. Seems like a win, win, win to me!
Honda will copy American technology like the Chinese do! They are all the same.
The 1940’s called, they’d like their racism back.
Do they want they’re KUNG FLU back too?
So racist. People like you are the problem with this world.
How will Honda accomplish scale outside of North America? Will Honda in house design electric powertrains for Japanese and global products? This makes no financial sense.
I see a tighter alliance down the road that is being done slowly not to offend Japanese and even US sensibilities. GM quality has improved posing less difficulties for a future merger