Honda to bed GM for fuel-cell plant
Two car-makers to share cheque for new factoryHonda has announced that it will extend its hydrogen fuel cell technical partnership with General Motors to include an all-new, state-of-the-art facility that will manufacture the fuel cells that will power both car-makers’ future zero-emission vehicles.
The news that the two car-makers will combine forces to build a factory has been reported by newswire, The Asahi Shimbun, after speaking to a Honda spokesman who said the motivation of the partnership was “cutting costs”.
It’s not known where the plant will be built but mass production of fuel cells will begin in 2025, according to Honda.
Honda and GM first formed a technical partnership to develop fuel-cell vehicles back in 2013
Toyota recently announced it too was forming an alliance with BMW, while Nissan is known to be working with both Ford and Daimler to bring the technology to market.
Encouraging the development of fuel-cell vehicles, that’s only tailpipe emission is water vapour, is the Japanese government that said to have announced that it will introduce measures that will reduce the cost of next-generation fuel cell vehicles, in line with current petrol-electric hybrid vehicles, by 2025.
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