Toronto, Ontario — On Friday Honda announced plans for its future sales of electric vehicles in North America, along with its plans to work toward the realization of carbon neutrality and zero traffic collision fatalities.
The OEM plans for 100 percent of its vehicle sales to consist of battery-electric and fuel cell EVs, progressing from sales of 40 percent by 2030 and 80 percent by 2035. Accordingly, Honda is formalizing its goals for achieving carbon neutrality for all products and corporate activities by 2050, as well as zero traffic collision fatalities involving Honda automobiles and motorcycles globally by 2050.
In the area of safety, Honda has determined to strive for zero automobile and motorcycle collision fatalities globally by 2050, involving Honda products.
Since many motorcycle collision fatalities involve automobiles, Honda said it will strive to apply its omnidirectional ADAS to all new automobile models the company introduces in major markets by 2030.
The new omnidirectional ADAS is an advanced driver-assistance system envisioned beyond the current Honda Sensing suite of safety and driver-assistive technologies. Honda is leveraging the knowledge and know-how amassed through research and development of its Level 3 automated driving technologies, which recently began sales in Japan, to further enhance the intelligence of ADAS technologies.
In addition, as a company that has markets both motorcycles and automobiles, Honda will continue to strengthen its research on safety technologies that enable motorcycles and automobiles to safely coexist. In this way, Honda will seek to continue to lead the way in realizing a collision-free society from the standpoint of both hardware and software.
