GM and Honda have just established a “strategic alliance” here in North America, which could include selling cars together. If this means we’re getting a Chevy-branded Honda E, count me! All that and more Morning shift For September 3, 2020.
1st Gear: Passport Only Again
I don’t know if you remember Isuzu RodeoHonda passport based in the 1990s and early 2000s, but I can think of the last serious Honda and GM partnership. I can’t say what kind of good work it does for both Honda or GM, but I hope we don’t get out of any other passport situation with this deal announced today with a few details.
Both companies Said earlier this year Then they will build two new electric cars together, Saying they will work on batteries together.
Is from Honda Press announcement Today:
General Motors and Honda announced today that they have signed a non-binding agreement following extensive initial discussions to establish an automotive alliance in North America. The scope of the proposed affiliation includes a number of vehicles to be sold under each company’s specific brand, as well as cooperation in purchasing, researching and developing and connected services.
Under the proposed alliance, Honda and GM will collaborate in various areas of North America, with the intention of sharing common vehicle platforms, including both electrified and internal combustion propulsion systems configured with vehicle platforms. Co-development planning discussions will begin soon, with engineering work set to begin in early 2021.
The announcement follows an agreement reached in April between the companies to jointly develop two new electric vehicles for Honda based on GM’s highly flexible global EV platform powered by Ultium battery. The GM-Honda relationship, which began more than two decades ago, includes recent collaborations between companies on automotive vehicles that share fuel cells, batteries and cruise origins.
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I’m happy because this means we’ll get the Honda E back to work quickly, I don’t know, the new Chevy Vega, I think this will really just end with some all-electric Honda crossover.
2nd gear: EV seems to be very expensive in yet another study
The Financial Times has put a frame on this story, which comes close to the point in the headline report, “The appetite for electric cars in the UK is declining due to the epidemic.”
The story discusses the Auto Toe Trader Survey in the UK that the global epidemic has made our jobs and the sense of job security disappear.
A survey of 2,300 customers by Auto Toe Trader in January found that 16 per cent were considering buying a battery-powered car only. But 2, Gust’s survey of 2,700 people found only 4 percent were considering a pure electric car.
The flesh of the matter comes down a few lines:
“In times of economic uncertainty, car buyers return to the type of vehicles they are most familiar with, and which they consider to be the most affordable choice, namely petrol and diesel cars,” said Ian Plummer, commercial director at Auto Toe Trader.
“Since price is the primary consideration for most car buyers, the next retail price of EVS [electric vehicles] Somewhat put off. “
This is a very long way of saying that EVs are very expensive. Car companies, new technologies and developments, like to talk about how they bring down the cost of designed EVs, but they gloss that at the moment they can turn all their lineups into simpler, less luxurious EV designs.
3G Gear: Nissan says it makes a breakthrough in mass-produced carbon fiber
Talk about rubbing salt in my wounds – d’oh! Nissan announced today that it is considering how to make carbon fiber cheaper, allowing more mass-produced carbon, according to a GG Press report. Nippon.com:
Its new technology FG CFRP will shorten the time required to make parts by about 80 pct from traditional methods for making pets. The costs involved will also be lower. According to the company, the use of CFRP parts will make the vehicle 80 kg lighter.
Currently, auto tomakers are in the race to develop electric vehicles, but such vehicles equipped with motors and batteries are facing the challenge of losing weight.
Nissan could make it all a little smaller by making its cars 80kg lighter, but it’s not on any of the fun press lists.
Fourth Gear: Daimler says it is building an autonomous semi-truck testing center in New Mexico
The march continues to shift from robots to truck drivers, and Daimler announced today that it is expanding its testing for autonomous semi-trucks in the United States. From it Press announcement:
In September 2020, the U.S. Daimler Trucks and Torque Robotics have been in partnership for a year as a team after becoming part of the autonomous Technol Group G group of automated driving technology company G Company Daimler Trucks. Together in one year, in collaboration with the general goal of bringing a series of manufactured high-performance trucks (SAE Level 4) on the roads within a decade; Includes on-road deployment of Level 4 test fleets, redesign of truck chassis, adoption of hub-to-hub model, rig formally rigorous testing protocol, truck formal truck safety driver certification process, and enhanced software software capabilities. Now, on Tonomas Technol Group G Group will expand its testing to New Mexico by building a new testing center in Albuquerque. The expansion to the new location will support testing and provide data for more use cases of next-generation vehicles on public roads starting this fall.
5th Gear: French Oil Group Total Steps Towards Mozambique’s ‘Iraqiization’
This is not strictly car news, but also related to the main topic for the cars and post toe industry વ colonialism. The story is that the French oil giant is having a hard time with its oil fields in Total Mozambique, and is advancing security measures that may not look real, such as Financial Times Reports:
After rebels with ties to ISIS seized control of a major port in northern Mozambique last month, he said he would provide logistical support to the government’s “Joint Task Force” to strengthen security at rational natural gas facilities. Tote told the Financial Times on Wednesday that the task force would be run by the Mozambican defense ministries and the internal military, which oversees the army and police.
“This is a defining moment,” said Pierce Pigau, South Africa’s adviser to the International Crisis Group, in his “Iraqification” of the conflict. The Total Security Deal, which will allow the defense of its facilities on the Afungi Peninsula in the province of Cabo Delgado, calls for “security approach risks that detract from the green zone.” [of LNG development] And the rest of the country does very little, ”he said. And
This is a difficult issue, it is difficult that no one really looks good in it, which is a small loss you get when foreign companies get resources from poor people.
Verse Latu: Nile done
Via History:
President on September 3, 1919 Woodrow Wilson Embarks on a tour of the United States to promote American membership in League of Nations, An international organization that he hopes will help resolve international conflicts and prevent a bloody World War II like the country.World War I.. Tours took a huge toll on Wilson’s health.
Neutral: What do you want to see from the GM-Honda partnership?
I have no clue how an S660 comes here, but I will never stop dreaming.
Update: This post initially states that the passport was based on Trooper. This is the mix. The Akura was based on the SLX Trooper. The passport was Isuzu Rodeo. We seriously regret the mistake.
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