Honda will develop its electric technology with the collaboration of Hitachi

La electrification of the automotive sector It goes smooth sailing at full sail. Tesla Motors will start deliveries of its Model 3 on July 28 and other manufacturers are joining it. One of them is the Volkswagen Group, which after having messed up the one that has messed with the Dieselgate is betting everything on the electrification of its range of models.

In Japan they do not want to be left out of the trends of the sector and therefore Honda is making strategic moves to take the first step. In hybrid technology, Toyota Motor snatched the first place, but in the manufacture of battery-powered cars, the house of the "H" does not want to give it a single millimeter.

For that, Honda, announced five months ago that it would join forces with Hitachi to create electric motors. At that time the details of this agreement were unknown, but now they are official. As reported by both firms, the collaboration agreement that was signed will be limited to the design, development and manufacture of components for electric and hybrid vehicles.

To carry out this mission a new company will be created with an initial investment of about 44 million dollars (Hitachi will have 51 percent of the capital and Honda the remaining 49 percent). The trade name of this new company is Hitachi Automotive Electric Motor Systems and will focus its work on the development of the necessary hardware so that electric and hybrid cars can work.

According to Takahiro Hachigo, Director of Honda Motor Company

“Producing these engines requires a huge investment, so instead of just manufacturing them for ourselves, we would like to produce them in large volumes with the possibility of supplying a wide variety of customers”

Therefore, at first they will focus on the production of electric motors for electric and hybrid cars. In the future, depending on how well their products are received, they would consider producing battery packs with different energy capacities.

Source – Honda