A few years back, as part of an effort to demonstrate that it was taking EVs more seriously than it had previously demonstrated, Honda’s global CEO Toshihiro Mibe gathered members of the automotive press in Tokyo for a status seminar. He noted its partnership with General Motors as a hallmark, with joint plans to build vehicles not only on GM’s current Ultium platform, but to collaborate on future affordable EV underpinnings for later in the 2020s.
