Yahoo Autos Honda and Sony team up to build electric cars
In what may be the single greatest tie-up the PlayStation generation never knew it wanted, Sony and Honda have officially confirmed that they will work together to produce electric cars under a new joint-venture company.
"Specifically, the two companies will establish a joint venture (hereinafter referred to as "new company") to jointly develop and sell high-value-added electric vehicles (EVs) through the new company, and will also provide services for mobility," Honda's translated announcement said. The announcement also said that the agreement demonstrates their "intention to become a vehicle," but as rough as the past two years have been, we're going to chalk that one up to a translation error rather than early signs of an existential crisis.
Sony has been spotted hanging around the automotive pool recently, dipping its toe in with concepts shown at CES in 2020 and again this year despite assurances that it had no interest in building cars. Those claims began to fall on deaf ears after the Vision-S 02 SUV concept surfaced in January. Not surprisingly, Sony's two concepts were heavy on tech promises and relatively light on mechanical specs, but that's to be expected this early in the process, especially given Sony's previous mission. We suspect the nuts-and-bolts will be Honda's responsibility.
