General Motors is partnering with Honda to produce several new lines of vehicles, with the Japanese automaker leveraging GM’s Ultium technology to offer up all-electric models like the up-and-coming Honda Prologue crossover. Now, Honda is teasing the styling for the up-and-coming Ultium-based Honda Prologue with a fresh rendering image.
“We announced a plan two years ago, positioned as a smart strategy, to co-develop an electric vehicle with GM. What will result is not just a more efficient process, but a great looking new vehicle, the Honda Prologue,” said vice president of Auto Sales, American Honda Motor Co., Mamadou Diallo. “Our dealers are excited about Prologue and the fact that it is just the first volume Honda EV, with more Honda engineered EVs we will begin building in North America coming to market in 2026.”
The new Honda Prologue was styled at the Honda Design Studio in Los Angeles in collaboration with a Honda design team based in Japan, and incorporates design inspiration pulled from the Honda e all-electric compact. The Prologue is also the first Honda vehicle designed primarily through virtual reality visualization technology.
The new Honda Prologue is set to launch in 2024, and will set the stage for a variety of new EV models to follow.
Like GM, Honda has big plans for the EV segment, including 30 new EV models set to launch globally by 2030, with a total volume of 2 million units, 500,000 of which will be in North America. Honda’s EV push will incorporate GM’s Ultium battery and Ultium Drive technology, while at the same time, the Japanese automaker is also developing its own EV platform called the Honda e:Architecture, which will underpin new vehicles set to launch by 2026. By 2027, Honda will begin production and sales of “a new series of affordable EVs” based on the GM Ultium electric vehicle platform.
In addition to teasing the new Ultium-based Honda Prologue, Honda also announced that it was working with its dealer network to prep for EV and digital sales in the near future. This includes a new dealership design, the installation of EV charging stations, and new tooling and equipment for EV service.
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I still feel this is going to be a bad deal in the long run for GM. Never trust the Japanese companies. Honda wouldn’t be doing this unless it was going to totally benefit them in the long run more than it will benefit GM. In my opinion, GM should have told Honda to f-off and let them struggle with no EV’s till 2027.
Keep your friend close. Keep you enemies closer.
GM and Honda have had decades of experience working together especially in electric and hydrogen fuel cell development. GM has used Honda engines in their vehicles in the past as well.
And Honda has used GM diesels in their European trucks. That was the deal when Saturn used the Honda engines in the Vue.
you mean to tell me a company is making decisions that will benefit them?
what other pearls of wisdom can you share with us?
If Honda needs GM’s help — it validates GM as a going concern.
YESSS!!! GHondaM!!!