Canada courting Honda since 2022

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne met with Honda officials in the last four weeks

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Here's what EV makers have brought to CES this year

PLUS: The tiny VinFast VF3, automated valet charging with robots, and Kia's EV van lineup.

If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser. Honda Shows Two Concepts at CES, One Slated for Production      CES became an auto show quite some time ago, and the first week of January is now full of debuts that not long ago would have been unveiled in Detroit.    Automakers are now timing some of their most important EV debuts with the annual tech extravaganza in Las Vegas (which is also notably warmer than Detroit in January).    Honda, which has one EV on the way this year, brought two concepts to CES dubbed simply Space-Hub and Saloon. And both look like they could have been penned by Syd Mead for an '80s sci-fi film.    But none of this is science fiction anymore. Honda plans for the Saloon to arrive quite soon in production form, as part of a lineup dubbed the "0 Series."   Here's when we could see EVs like this on sale. READ THE FULL STORY Will Automated Valet EV Charging Become Commonplace?      If you've ever dreamed of dropping off your EV off at the entrance to the airport parking garage and just letting the car park itself and also charge itself, two companies are now working on just such a thing.    Bosch and VW's software arm Cariad are now testing automated valet parking along with automated valet charging, letting robots and infrastructure handle the tasks of finding a charging station and also finding a parking spot. And a lot of tech to make this happen is already a reality today.    The most difficult part, from the standpoint of hardware, isn't really the charging robots themselves but rather all the sensors inside the garage needed to communicate with an SAE Level 4 car. And taking a step back, there would first need to be enough Level 4 cars out there to make this work at scale, and all compatible with the parking infrastructure's software.    And there is yet another challenge for Bosch and Cariad to solve. READ THE FULL STORY Kia to Market 3 Modular Commercial Electric Vans, and a Robotaxi      There has been no shortage of commercial EV startups with plans for custom-designed box vans and trucks, most of them aimed at last-mile delivery. But years after we first started seeing such concepts appear, it's been mostly Rivian and BrightDrop that have been able to advance them to the production stage.    Kia now wants a slice of the commercial EV market, and it brought a whole lineup of sleek and futuristic electric vans to CES. And it includes a robotaxi.    This isn't a whimsical batch of concepts, either—they're due to enter production in South Korea soon.     Here's when we should see the first of these launched. READ THE FULL STORY The VinFast VF3 Cute Ute Wants to Be the Affordable EV READ MORE In-Race EV Fast Charging Slated for Formula E Debut in April READ MORE Fisker Has a New Approach to Selling EVs READ MORE This Chinese EV Maker Plans a Factory in Europe READ MORE Here's What VW's Tests of Solid-State Cells Reveal READ MORE Audi's Electric Q8 e-tron Dreams of Racing in the Dakar READ MORE Spread the word: If you know someone interested in staying on top of the rapidly growing EV segment, feel free to pass this newsletter along. SIGN UP Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice | CA Notice at Collection Autoweek is a publication of Hearst Autos. ©2024 Hearst Autos, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Autos, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779 https://link.autoweek.com/oc/60751dea6d1a7f51693f313dk8d11.1ssb/165f622b