HONDA has introduced that it’ll construct a brand new car manufacturing plant in Wuhan, China, with Chinese language subsidiary Dongfeng Honda.
The battery electrical car (BEV) manufacturing facility in central Hubei province is slated to producer its first car by as early as 2024 and goals to supply 120,000 automobiles yearly with the help of Chinese language battery maker CATL.
CATL (Modern Amperex Know-how Firm Restricted) is contracted to produce 56GWh of batteries to produce Honda battery electrical and plug-in electrical hybrid automobiles till 2027.
Dongfeng Honda’s new 630,000 sq. metre plant will possible develop into the first manufacturing facility for home market Honda battery electrical automobiles, ultimately boosting Honda’s world electrical car manufacturing capability by greater than 15 per cent.
Honda introduced beforehand that it plans to promote solely battery electrical and hydrogen gas cell automobiles in chosen main markets globally by 2040.
It’s understood the brand new Wuhan facility could also be among the many first to supply Honda’s upcoming fully-electric HR-V, the small SUV unveiled because the e:NP1 (pictured) for the Chinese language home market late final 12 months.
“China is on the forefront of technological innovation, so we are going to search to quickly reply by introducing vanguard applied sciences and merchandise for our Chinese language clients,” Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe stated upon saying the e:NP1 final 12 months.
“The ratio of EVs and FCVs inside our general gross sales in all main markets, together with China, might be elevated to 40 per cent by 2030, to 80 per cent by 2035, after which to 100 per cent globally by 2040,” he added.
Providing as much as 500km of driving vary, the Honda e:NP1 options the most recent in-car know-how from the Japanese model, together with Honda Sensing 360 driver help and security applied sciences, a ten.25-inch liquid crystal digital instrument cluster, and all-new Join 3.0 infotainment system which is now accessed by way of a 15.2-inch portrait-style touchscreen. All can be found with over-the-air replace capabilities.
It’s understood the city-sized SUV might provide as much as 150kW of energy to the entrance wheels and provide a prime pace of 150km/h. The battery pack is reported to offer 68.8kWh.
The e:NP1 is one in every of 10 new battery-electric car Honda plans to introduce to the Chinese language market over the following 5 years. Different e:N Sequence fashions embody a two-door coupe, a four-door GT automotive, and one other small SUV dubbed e:NS1.