Honda cancels plan for cheap electric vehicles, ending collaboration with GM
arstechnica.com
The platform was to use GM's Ultium batteries.

Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM::The platform was to use GM’s Ultium batteries.

  • woodenskewer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    8 months ago

    GM has blamed the Ultium bottleneck on an unspecified “automation equipment supplier.”

    Rockwell Automation has entered the chat.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Rockwell is like Comcast. You have no opinion on them or a blind raging hostile opinion of them.

      Edit: on a serious note the systems engineering folks have been telling this before my parents were born. This should not have been a shock to anyone. Diversity in components means greater ability to withstanding changes, the tradeoff is you are going to run less efficiently even in good times.