How Nissan and Honda's $60 billion merger talks collapsed.
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Honda is better off without them.
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Personally think Nissan is better positioned for the EV future and Honda is likely to be the one that needed this more.
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- Honda realized Nissan has nothing to offer them
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Sources say.
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They were one of the few, if only, remaining manufacturers in the US that produced a subcompact car. Yet they are getting rid of both the Versa and Altima.
I hate how everybody bloated up their fleets with crossovers and SUVs...
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Nah.
Honda has a much better product in the first place, their engineering approach has always been better than Nissan (I say this having worked on every major brand, and some unknowns).
Nissan is one of the better ones, but they're still a big step away from Honda.
And Honda was working on hydrogen nearly 30 years ago now, which seems poised to suplant batteries (again, maybe).
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Lol, hydrogen. A chronological oddity. Has spent the last 30+ years just 10 years away from being viable.
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And Honda was working on hydrogen nearly 30 years ago now, which seems poised to suplant batteries (again, maybe).
LOL, no. Hydrogen has never been anything but a greenwashing scam. Even if it were all produced from electrolysis (and to be clear, it isn't -- the vast majority is produced from fossil fuels), it would still be stupidly cumbersome to deal with compared to adding some carbon to it to make synthetic gasoline.
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Nissan could have been better positioned for EV but they didn't bother actually doing anything with the Leaf for a decade.
Kinda like how they could have been a high performance brand with the GTR if they bothered to actually do any more development on it for the past decade.
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And Honda was working on hydrogen nearly 30 years ago now
Unless they have a fusion reactor they're not telling us about, so that they can electrolyze water hydrogen is never going to be a viable power source. Currently all hydrogen is acquired through fracking, which makes the entire exercise somewhat pointless.
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Honda has made both the "e" in 2020 and "e:Ny1" in 2023, both seem like decent BEVs.
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