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The Prologue official picture of Honda's new pure electric SUV model has been released, which is based on the Ultium Orlando platform developed by General Motors, which also means that the new car will be built on the same platform as the Chevrolet trailblazer EV and Cadillac Lyric. The new car is expected to go into production in 2024.

As a new Honda pure electric SUV model, in terms of appearance, the new car does not adopt the radical design style of the current pure tram, but continues to use the Honda family design style. The front face uses a slender front grille to form a penetrating design with the headlights on both sides. In the center of the front grille is the Honda brand LOGO, which has a high degree of recognition.

On the side of the body, the lines of the new car are simple and generous, and the roof uses a slippery design style with 21-inch rims to enhance the sense of movement of the whole car in the visual effect. In terms of body color, the new car uses a unique "North Shore Pearl" color, which is reportedly inspired by the natural beauty and color near Lake Tahoe in California. In terms of body size, the new car is 4876/1988/1643mm in length, width and height, and 3093mm in wheelbase, which is located between Honda CR-V and Passport.

In the rear part, the taillight group on both sides of the new car connects with the English words of the intermediate brand and echoes with the front face to form a penetrating design. The difference is that the new car logo does not use the common Honda "H" logo, but is replaced by the "Honda" English logo. In addition, the logo also has a "AWD" logo at the lower right, highlighting that the new car will provide an all-wheel drive version.

In the interior part, the overall layout of the new car still adopts the current Honda family style, with an 11-inch full LCD dashboard and an 11.3-inch suspension central control screen, while retaining some physical buttons and knobs. The physical buttons for temperature control and seat heating are used at the bottom of the central control screen. At the same time, the new car is also equipped with multi-function steering wheel, wireless charging board and other configurations.

In terms of power, Honda has not officially announced that the new car is expected to offer a single-motor version of the two-wheel drive model and a dual-motor version of the four-wheel-drive model. Given that the new car is based on the Altenon platform, the new car is expected to use a similar dual-motor configuration to the Chevrolet Blaer EV. As a reference, Blazer EV provides about 400km mileage. As for the price of the new car, Gary Robinson, vice president of Honda's product planning, said the new car will be on a par with the Passport in size and pricing, with the Passport starting at $38000, or about 269000 yuan, as a reference.

As "electrification" has become a consensus in the development of the automotive industry, Honda has also accelerated the layout of electric models in the Chinese market. At present, Honda China has laid out two major brands: the brand-new pure electric vehicle brand "ERV N" and the new intelligent and efficient pure electric architecture "ERV N Architecture". On October 13, 2021, Honda China announced its electrification strategy and the above two major brands. at the press conference, Honda China also brought two new pure electric vehicles, one from Dongfeng Honda e:NS1, the other from Guangzhou Automobile Honda e:NP1, the two models are sister models to each other, positioning small pure electric vehicles, all based on Honda eRom Architecture F platform, using the front motor layout. The two models are basically the same in appearance and interior decoration. Among them, Dongfeng Honda e:NS1 officially launched on April 26 this year, the new car positioning small pure electric SUV, launched a total of four models, the price range is 175000-218000 yuan; another model GAC Honda e:NP1 Jinpai 1 officially launched on June 20 this year, a total of four new models, the subsidized price range is 17.5-218000 yuan.

According to the plan, Honda will launch 30 electric vehicles worldwide by 2030, with annual production of more than 2 million vehicles, including Prologue in 2024 and Honda independent research and development models in 2026. In addition, Honda will jointly develop a series of economical electric vehicles with GM by 2027. On April 5 this year, Honda and General Motors reached a cooperation agreement. The two sides announced that they would work together to build a new platform to build low-cost people-friendly electric vehicles. The two sides expect the new model to go on sale in 2027, and the vehicle price will be lower than that of the Chevrolet Equinox (priced at $30, 000), in other words. Electric cars jointly produced by the two sides will be priced at no more than $30,000. In the Chinese market, Honda China plans to launch 10 pure electric vehicles under the ERV N brand by 2027. After 2030, all new models launched by Honda in China will be electric vehicles such as pure electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles, instead of putting in new fuel vehicles. Honda Inoue, the minister of Honda, said in an interview: "strive to sell 800000 pure electric vehicles by 2030."

On Oct. 3, local time, Honda's official website released US market sales data, which showed that Honda's US sales fell 17.1% to 79354 vehicles in September from a year earlier, and sales in the third quarter of 2022 fell 35.8% to 222050 vehicles from a year earlier. In the Chinese market, data show that Honda sold 136530 terminal cars in China in August, up 148.9% from a year earlier; cumulative sales from January to August in 2022 were 949314.

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