Honda announces without hesitation the total electrification of its range for 2025

If this edition of the Salon of the Geneva Motorcar is for the ecology of the most important products arriving at Palexpo. It seems an event focused more on green vehicles . In fact, the prize for the Car of the Year in Europe 2019 went, for the first time in history, to a 100% electric car; the Jaguar I-Pace.

Honda is not far from this change in mobility and today has made it clear the intentions of fully committing to electrification. It has affirmed, nothing more and nothing less, that its objective is that all its sales in Europe by the year 2025 have electrified technologies . As you can see, Honda stomps with feet and with security.

What most struck us is that this announcement comes after a couple of years ago they told us that their intentions were to have approximately electrification in 2/3 of its sales by 2025. This can mean two things: that they went overboard two years ago, or that they have been able to evolve the technology well above what they themselves expected.

Tom Gardner , Senior Vice President of Honda Motor Europe, stated that:" since we did That first promise in March 2017, the step towards electrification has accelerated significantly. Environmental challenges continue to drive the demand for more sustainable mobility. Technology is advancing inexorably and users are beginning to change their own vision about automobiles . "

The Japanese firm already announced some time ago, at the end of 2018, that would stop commercialize diesel passenger cars in the year 2021 in the European market; like here my comrade José Antonio told you. It is not something that already catches us with too much surprise, because other brands such as Volvo or Toyota are clear that it will not take too long to close in band to diesel engines.

In any case, this does not mean that all the cars that sell Honda are electric or hybrid vehicles to use, but could also be soft hybrids; like the systems of microhybridization that are so fashionable in recent days. By the way, what do you think of the urban Honda Prototype?