Honda Prologue Arriving In 2024, And That’s Not Too Late

Transportation Honda Prologue Arriving In 2024, And That’s Not Too Late Sebastian Blanco Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Following New! Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories. Got it! Oct 6, 2022, 06:37pm EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin 20223 Prologue Electric SUV Honda Honda has a plan to only sell electric vehicles in North America by 2040.

That’s not altogether unusual in the automotive world these days. Still, Honda is taking a different approach to getting its customers ready for a zero-emission future compared to the all-in approach of an EV start-up or a more dramatic timeline like Volvo – which will be a fully electric car company by 2030 – or GM – which plans to only sell electric vehicles by 2035 . Honda’s approach is a bit more conservative, according to Gary Robinson, assistant vice president of automobile product planning at American Honda Motor Company.

The automaker will steadily ramp up its EV game so that a battery or hydrogen will power 40 percent of its vehicles by 2030 before reaching the 100-percent EV goal in North America a decade later. Honda’s next big EV step in North America was partially revealed today: the all-electric Prologue SUV. Honda’s large EV will arrive in 2024, followed by two other, as-yet-unspecified EVs in 2026 and 2027.

The Prologue will share components – most importantly, the battery pack – with the Chevy Blazer EV, which will arrive that same year. Technical details of the Prologue are scarce, but an all-wheel drive option and an all-electric range of at least 250 miles are likely. Honda has sold two all-electric vehicles here before: the Fit EV in 2013 and 2014 and the Clarity EV from 2017 to 2019.

Will the five-year gap between the last Clarity and the first Prologue matter to EV shoppers in two years, especially when other automakers are already selling large, plug-in EVs? Robinson doesn’t think so. MORE FOR YOU Juan Soto Contract Rejection Could Make Orioles A Better Buy Than Nationals In 2014, Ukrainian Defectors Formed A New Russian Brigade. In 2022, The Ukrainian Army May Have Destroyed It.

Univision Premieres First TelevisaUnivision Late-Night Weekly Talk Show “I think we are actually happy with where we are,” he told me during a recent journalist roundtable discussing the Prologue. “Our sense is actually not that success in the EV world is already determined, but [that] it’s still pretty wide open. We’re still very much in the early adopter phase with fairly low volumes, with a couple of exceptions like Tesla.

” The reason, he said, can be found in Honda customer loyalty. “One of the things that we are most excited about is a certain type of [Honda] buyer that we’ve had so much loyalty with over time,” he said. “What we see is that the majority of our Honda buyers want to buy a Honda EV, even some of them that might have left for someone else.

So we actually think we’re going to hit it just right in terms of the real majority shift toward EVs. We feel pretty good about our timing on all of that. ” Follow me on Twitter .

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