Honda plans to completely phase out fossil fuel cars for 2040 only
American and European automakers are competing to speed up the phase-out of internal combustion cars. For some of them, the coveted milestone has already been set for 2030, albeit with reservations regarding territorial binding. Honda Motor is on a unified schedule, for now, promising to be fully electric from 2040.
In early April, Toshihiro Mibe took over as CEO of Honda Motor. One of his first public statements in the new status was a schedule for the transition to cars that do not use hydrocarbon fuels. According to Reuters, by 2030, the share of cars with electric motors in Honda’s range will not exceed 40%. This category includes battery electric vehicles and those using hydrogen fuel cells, although their relationship is not specified.
Note that Honda Motor has been researching transferring cars to hydrogen fuel since the late 1980s. By the end of the century, the prototypes of the FCX family appeared, and the first serial “hydrogen car” of the brand was the Honda FCX model, which was produced for the US and Japanese markets in the 2002 year.
By 2035, according to the new head of Honda Motor, the share of electric cars in all major markets will reach 80%. The first “purebred” electric car Honda, launched into the series only in August last year. If the final transition to electric traction is planned by this Japanese manufacturer in 2040, then it will begin to equip all its models in main markets with advanced systems of active driver assistance from 2030. In December last year, it became known that the supply of Honda cars to the Russian market through official channels would be terminated by the end of 2022.
