Honda needs new leadership. They're already talking about how they will fail because they can't compete with BYD. Yeah, well you can't compete if you don't even try, clearly. It's sad that Honda will die because they refuse to go electric, when the original Insight hybrid was so forward thinking.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

original Insight hybrid was so forward thinking

it was a piece of shit compliance car. Prius was a serious car.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

compliance car

I've never heard that, what's the deal there?

[–] LoveCanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

EVs that were built by companies to comply with a gov requirement to build a certain percentage of their vehicles as EVs. Example: The 2013-2019 Fiat 500 was a gas car but Stellantis also built it as an EV. It looks nearly identical, almost all body parts are the same but the drivetrain.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

I meant specifically about the Insight.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was reading a Japanese interview with Honda about how they are so proud of their history of innovation: that they were the first to create the bipedal humanoid robot.

Wow, great job. You did shit all with that lead you had and now the Chinese are beating you in every way. I hate living in Japan sometimes. Everyone is living in the past. We can't just survive on exporting anime, games, sushi, ramen, and tourism.