Honda’s radical new EVs might help it make better Accords – Green Car Reports
- Honda Ohio EV Hub will start making EVs in late 2025 on 0 Series platform
- Production will include Acura RSX, Honda 0 SUV, Honda 0 Saloon, and Afeela 1
- EVs, hybrids, and gas models will be mixed on single Marysville assembly line
- Processes introduced for EVs will apply to ICE models, making them better too
Over the past several years, a roller coaster of EV supply and market demand, with an about-face of regulatory moves, created a new kind of challenge for full-line automakers—about how deeply and how soon to commit to dedicated EV plants.
Honda continues to target 100% electric vehicle sales by 2040, and to have “zero environmental impact” by 2050. It’s previously projected 40% EV sales in North America by 2030. Meanwhile hybrids add up to 50% of U.S. Honda Accord sales, and in recent months Honda has admitted that it’s hard to predict the trajectory of where the mix will be on the way to fully electric.
To reconcile all this, it’s prepared by committing to a new template for making both EVs and gasoline models, all on the same production line. This sea change in how it makes vehicles could keep its oldest U.S. assembly plant, its Marysville, Ohio, facility that opened in 1982, humming at capacity, no matter what the market presents.
As Honda confirmed last April, Marysville will truly get the automaker to the point of EV mass production in North America, with a big asterisk. It has the capability to make hundreds of EVs per day, or many hundreds of gasoline models—depending on demand.
