HONDA PLOTS SOLID-STATE BATTERIES

Currently, Honda sources lithium ion batteries from an array of suppliers worldwide: EV development partner General Motors supplies its Ultium batteries for use in future Us-market Honda EVS; CATL supplies the manufacturer’s Chinese operations; and Envision AESC will power Honda’s small Japanese-market EVS.

But the marque has now detailed a plan to bring its own solid-state battery technology to market, investing the equivalent of £263 million in the construction of a demonstration production line, which is scheduled to be in operation in spring 2024.

Honda plans to have EVS powered by solid-state batteries on sale in the second half of this decade.