Honda Decides to Build Its Own Electric Vehicles in the Future
本田终于宣布推出电动车SUV计划
Japanese automaker Honda plans to design and manufacture its own electric vehicles (EVs) in the coming years.
日本汽车制造商本田计划在未来几年内设计和制造电动汽车。
Company officials say they will begin building their own electric vehicles after two EVs made by American automaker General Motors (GM) go on sale in 2024.
公司官员表示，在美国通用汽车公司生产的两款电动汽车于2024年上市后，他们将开始自己制造电动汽车。
"It's absolutely our intention to produce in our factories," said Honda of America Executive Vice President Dave Gardner. He added that Honda has developed battery manufacturing technology from building gas-electric hybrid vehicles.
美国本田公司执行副总裁戴夫·加德纳（Dave Gardner）表示：“没错，我们确实打算在自家工厂生产电动汽车。”他还表示，本田已经通过制造氢燃料电池混合动力汽车开发出电池制造技术。
Honda and GM have been partners in making hydrogen and electric powered vehicles. Earlier this year, the companies announced that GM would build two sport utility vehicles (SUVs): one Honda sport SUV and one Acura SUV. Both would use GM's electric vehicle design and battery system. The company said the Honda SUV would be named the Prologue. Both SUVs will have bodies, interiors and driving elements designed by Honda.
本田和通用汽车一直是制造氢燃料和电动汽车的合作伙伴。今年早些时候，两家公司宣布通用汽车将生产两款运动型多功能车（简称SUV）：一款本田SUV和一款讴歌SUV。两款车都将使用通用汽车的电动汽车设计和电池系统。该公司表示，这款本田SUV将被命名为“序幕。”这两款SUV的车身、内饰和传动件都将采用本田的设计。
Honda then plans to manufacture most of its own electric vehicles. The company has not decided if it will use GM parts.
随后，本田开始计划自行生产其大部分电动汽车。该公司尚未决定是否会采用通用汽车的零部件。
Gardner said Honda expects to sell between 40,000 and 150,000 Prologue EVs a year. But he did not predict when those numbers would be reached.
加德纳表示，本田预计每年将销售4万到15万辆“序幕”电动汽车。但是他没有预测什么时候能实现这一目标。
In April, the company said it plans to stop producing gasoline-powered vehicles in North America by 2040. Honda wants 40 percent of the vehicles it sells in North America to be powered by batteries or fuel-cells by 2030. The company also wants 80 percent of all the vehicles it sells to run on batteries or hydrogen by 2035.
今年4月，该公司表示计划于2040年在北美停止生产汽油动力汽车。本田希望在2030年前，其在北美销售的汽车中有40%采用电池或燃料电池驱动。该公司还希望，在2035年前，其销售的所有汽车的80%将采用电池或氢燃料驱动。
Earlier, Honda had planned to meet stronger government fuel economy and pollution requirements by adding hybrid vehicles. But government actions across the world meant to fight climate change have moved the company more toward fully electric vehicles, Gardner said.
早些时候，本田计划通过增加混合动力汽车来满足政府更为严格的燃油经济性和污染排放限制。但是加德纳表示，世界各国政府旨在应对气候变化采取的行动已经让该公司更倾向于全电动汽车。
Electric vehicles made up less than two percent of new vehicle sales in the U.S. last year. But experts predict huge growth as automakers develop new models. Car industry advisor LMC Automotive expects 359,000 to be sold this year. They also expect sales to reach 1 million in 2023 and 4 million in 2030. That is about 25 percent of yearly new vehicle sales.
电动汽车去年在美国新车销量中占比不足2%。但是专家预测，随着汽车制造商开发新车型，电动汽车销量将会出现大幅增长。汽车行业咨询公司 LMC Automotive 预计今年的销量为35.9万辆电动汽车。他们还预计到2023年，电动汽车销量将达到100万辆，2030年将达到400万辆。大约占每年新车销量的25%。