Facing heavy losses, Honda cancels its three US-made electric vehicles
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本田因面临高达51亿至70亿美元的年度巨额亏损，决定取消三款美国制造的电动汽车计划，包括Honda 0 SUV、Honda 0轿车和电动Acura RSX。公司解释此举主要归因于贸易战关税持续影响其进口车辆利润，以及美国政府停止强制执行排放和燃油经济性标准。尽管本田强调实现碳中和是其责任，但该承诺似乎仅在政府强制要求下才得以推进。
Last year, Honda gave Ars a tour of some of its manufacturing facilities in Ohio. The Anna Engine Plant and Marysville Auto Plant had undergone a transformation that added to their capabilities: a massive die cast operation to make electric vehicle battery packs alongside the lines that make engines at Anna, and a gleaming new section of Marysville filled with robots, ready to incorporate three new Honda and Acura EVs into the production mix alongside Accords and Integras.
Only now, they won't. Earlier today, Honda announced that it's facing heavy losses for the financial year: between $5.1 billion and $7 billion (820 billion–1.12 trillion yen). To help stanch the flow, it's sacrificing the Honda 0 SUV, Honda 0 sedan, and the electric Acura RSX, EVs it revealed at CES last year in "nearly production" state.
Honda says there are several reasons for killing off its new EVs before they even reach the market. The first is extremely predictable: the ongoing chaos of the trade war and its tariffs, which have eaten into the profitability of the cars it imports into the US. A second is the US government's revanchist decision to cease enforcing emissions and fuel economy standards on the auto industry. Although Honda says that "striving for carbon neutrality" is a "responsibility Honda... must fulfill for the future," it seems that responsibility only applies when being forced by a government.
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