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American Honda Motor has named its first battery electric vehicle (BEV) which will be sold in the US from 2024.

In a lengthy blog post, EVP Dave Gardner said: “We will be introducing a new series of BEVs coming in this decade. This will include both SUVs for both the Honda and Acura brands and we will share more about the Acura BEV in the future.

“Our first volume Honda BEV will be introduced in 2024, signaling the start of our transition to this technology and the name of this first model will signal its role: the Prologue.

“While I won’t provide a specific sales target for you, I will tell you that we are targeting annual volume roughly between our Passport and Pilot SUVs [US reports put this between 40,000 and 150,000 units]. And the Honda Prologue coming in 2024 is just the start.

“We have some sense of the unique purchase behaviors of consumers who will be buying their first BEV in 2024, and we have started preparing on the business side in North America for selling full EVs. Our dealers will be an integral part of the process, so we’ll be spending a lot of time with them to clarify roles and responsibilities, all aimed at providing the best experience possible for our customers.

“With the Prologue, our goal is to provide a highly competitive product with the functionality to meet the diverse needs of our customers and Honda’s role in co-development will ensure this class-leading experience.

“We’re taking what we believe is a smart approach to the start of volume EV sales, leveraging strategic partners to achieve scale and mitigate initial investment requirements. Here iN North America, General Motors is one of our strategic partners. Our relationship with GM includes: battery co-development, vehicle co-development, and a joint venture focused on the development and production of fuel cell technology for vehicles and other applications.”

Gardner noted Honda has a long history with electrified vehicles, from the EV Plus 25 years ago to America’s first hybrid and the industry’s first fuel cell vehicle in the hands of individual customers and, more recently, the Honda Clarity series.

“In the near term, our strategy is focused on introducing a higher percentage of hybrids in our core models. We’re making a committed effort to achieve higher volume, by making the hybrid variant the best grade of each model to give it stronger appeal.

“We know people who have a good experience with a hybrid are likely to buy a battery-electric vehicle (BEV). We have grown our sales of electrified vehicles in each of the past three years, with CR-V Hybrid leading the way to our best-ever HEV sales in each of the past three months.

“Why invest in hybrid vehicles? We believe it is the best pathway to a zero-emission future. We have vast experience and expertise in hybrid vehicle technology, which is something not every automaker can claim. In the near term, this will play a critical role in our continuing efforts to reduce CO2 emissions from our product performance.

“Hybrid production in the U.S. also enables us to get our production network ready, including familiarization with EV components, including the battery unit and EV system utilised in three hybrid models we build in the US, (Accord, Insight and CR-V )..

“In the second half of this decade, our transition to electrification will continue with a series of EVs based on what we call our e:Architecture, with development being led by Honda.

“Moreover, to secure the high competitiveness of our EVs of the future, Honda is conducting independent research on solid-state batteries as the next generation batteries for EVs that will realise high capacity and low cost.

“As part of our ongoing effort in this area, we will undertake the verification of production technology using a demonstration line, starting this fiscal year. We will begin accelerating this research with an aim to make solid-state batteries available by the end of the decade.

“Together, these development efforts will take us toward Honda’s vision for carbon neutrality by 2050, with a plan to increase our sales of battery-electric and fuel cell electric vehicles to 40% of our volume by 2030, 80% by 2035, and to 100% of our vehicle sales by 2040.”

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NHL Announces 2022 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend In Las Vegas - NHL.com

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VEGAS (June 28, 2021) - The National Hockey League announced today information for the 2022 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas. The festivities will take place at T-Mobile Arena and will be scheduled during its traditional midway point of the NHL regular season.

"It's very exciting to have the opportunity to host the 2022 NHL All-Star Weekend at T-Mobile Arena," said Vegas Golden Knights President & COO Kerry Bubolz. "This is one of the league's premier events of the year and we are thrilled to bring fans from around the world to Las Vegas to celebrate hockey. This event will also help continue our growth of the game in Nevada and our surrounding areas."

The 2022 Honda NHL® All-Star Weekend will include the 2022 NHL All-Star Skills™ and the 2022 Honda NHL All-Star Game, and will feature various hockey-themed events, entertainment and activities. Confirmed dates and additional information regarding the 2022 Honda NHL® All-Star Weekend will be announced when available.

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Pikes Peak Winners Include Honda-Powered Turbo Wolf, Tesla Model S Plaid - Car and Driver

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• The 99th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb has ended, and full results are here.
• The annual Colorado hill-climb event featured 52 drivers and crew members in six classes, or divisions, including a Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport–only class, the traditionalist open-wheel class, and Exhibition, won this year by Randy Pobst in a Tesla Model S Plaid.
• Overall winner was Robin Shute in a purpose-built car in the Unlimited division, with a 5:55.246 lap time.

The 99th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) was crazy, exhausting, dangerous, and one of the greatest motorsports event you can see. Fifty-two drivers and their crew had spent close to a month preparing for the annual time-attack hill climb near Colorado Springs. We arrived for the fun part: the last four days of practice and qualifying, leading into teams' final attempts on race day on Sunday, June 27. Snow and ice at the top of the mountain cut three miles from this year's climb, putting even more pressure on drivers to do more with less. The runoff area along this private road's most dangerous sections is measured vertically. And so are the mistakes.

PPIHC is best described as an event as dangerous as any World Rally Championship stage, but stitched together with the spirit of a 24-hour endurance race. No part of Pikes Peak mountain harbors fools or pretenders. The only people on the mountain on race day were race drivers, race cars, race teams, race fans, and three bears who would have identified as at least one of those. Everyone here is only here because they want to be—especially the bears.

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This place is wild, giving just a glimpse of what motorsports used to be: feral and exciting. There's no mandatory anything here. The only stoppage in play is to tow mangled pieces of bodywork and tire off the asphalt so the remaining drivers can climb beyond the failures of others and into the clouds. Spectators roam past fences for a better view, and even the blades of the low-flying camera helicopter mostly drowned out the siren required for electric vehicles competing here. Most people woke up yesterday to watch today's race, except for the people camped along the 12.3-mile race course, who are legendary in their own right.

Practice days are arguably better for spectators than race day. Drivers do several passes on one of three sections of the mountain. From the cliffs, we'd watch cars come up one at a time. As quickly as the thunder from local pastor Layne Schranz's Chevrolet SS stock car passed, a tornado of rpm would scream from the bottom of the mountain from the next car. Point is, on race day you get to see each car once. During practice you can watch a few cars all morning.

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The true king of Pikes Peak Mountain was back this year: Romain Dumas, the crazy Frenchman who set an unbeaten record of seven minutes, 57 seconds in Volkswagen's all-electric ID. R Pikes Peak racer in 2018. For 2021, Dumas had the second-fastest lap in his Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport. His closest competitor, Rhys Millen driving a Bentley Continental GT3, was more than 12 seconds ahead of Dumas after the second sector, but his Bentley developed a boost leak later in the run. The power loss dropped the New Zealander nearly five seconds behind Dumas by the end of the event, but he still managed to finish fourth overall.

The overall winner was Robin Shute. This was his second win at Pikes Peak, and a big one at 36 seconds ahead of second place. His car is a turbocharged Honda-powered homemade Unlimited category car. The Unlimited division is a longtime favorite of this event. Its requirements in the PPIHC rulebook have fewer words than the first paragraph of this story. If you can afford to build it crazy enough, and can procure someone just slightly crazier and brave enough to test it along a cliff, it's allowed. Which sounds simple but is also just such an insane concept in 2021. Apply this open-ended guide to any other sport, and maybe we'd see cybernetic LeBron James shooting threes from the parking lot with a basketball rocket launcher.

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Randy Pobst was back too. After sending a Tesla Model 3 flying into a wall at Bottomless Pit, he came back for more. This time winning the Exhibition division with his new Model S Plaid from Unplugged Performance, but still finishing 10 seconds behind a 1996 BMW M3 from the Pikes Peak Open division.

Isn’t that the point of motorsports? To experience something greater than just people driving. To see groups of humans push the boundaries of both physical possibility and moral responsibility. Sorry, maybe that's the altitude talking. Like a father we overheard at 14,115 feet at the summit explaining to his son what Pikes Peak was: "It's like walking through smoke, but instead it's clouds." Whoa, man. Are you like, one of those professional thinkers?

Next year is shaping up to be even crazier for the 100th anniversary of PPHIC. There's a rumor of legendary cars from Pikes Peak's past making a return to the mountain. We’re totally going, but until then, we’ve got a lot of sleep to catch up on.

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Vinales ends Yamaha MotoGP contract early, to leave at end of season - Reuters

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June 28 (Reuters) - Nine-time MotoGP race winner Maverick Vinales will leave Yamaha at the end of the 2021-22 season after terminating his contract one year early, the team announced on Monday.

Vinales was signed by Yamaha in 2017 as a replacement for Jorge Lorenzo and won three of his first five races.

But the 26-year-old, who had a contract until 2022, was linked with a move to Aprilia after his relationship with Yamaha soured this season.

"Yamaha and Maverick Vinales have mutually decided to terminate their current 2021-2022 agreement at the close of this season," Yamaha said in a statement.

"Following Maverick Vinales' request, Yamaha have agreed to put an early end to their current two-year contract."

After winning the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix in March, Vinales failed to secure a podium finish until last weekend's Dutch GP, while his team mate and championship leader Fabio Quartararo won four times.

Vinales also suffered his worst MotoGP weekend in Germany this month where the Spaniard qualified 21st and finished last, while Quartararo came third.

The former Moto3 world champion said it was a difficult decision to part ways with Yahama.

"In these seasons together, we experienced both great achievements and tough times," said Vinales, who won a total of eight races with Yamaha.

"However, the underlying feeling is of mutual respect and appreciation. I am fully committed and will strive to achieve the best results for the rest of the season."

Vinales is sixth in the riders championship on 95 points, 61 points behind leader Quartararo.

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Designer Helps Us See What A Yamaha YZF-R9 Could Look Like - RideApart

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As motorcycle fans, many of us always want something more, and/or something different than what’s currently being offered to us by manufacturers. Take the latest Ducati Monster redesign (no, really, please, you can have it), which is a perfect illustration of how divisive change can be. Half of us want new, fantastic, different designs, while the other half likes what we like, and doesn’t embrace change easily.  

That’s where designer Kar Lee, the artist behind Kardesign Koncepts, comes in. Digital tinkerers like him come in and address the things we wish existed, but unfortunately don’t. At least, they don’t yet. That Ducati Monster redesign? Lee waved his magic wand to show us what it might look like in an alternate universe. In February, 2021, Lee took us on the visual journey of how a Triumph Daytona 1200 might look. It’s fun to imagine the possibilities, isn’t it? 

In June, 2021, we’re living in a post-Yamaha YZF-R7-reveal world. While rumors had been flowing for some time, the reality of it—as all realities do—pleased some riders, and irritated others. One thing that Lee supposes a lot of middleweight sportbike fans can agree on is that there’s every reason for Yamaha to consider making an MT-09-derived R9 next.  

 

After all, Lee’s original suggestion of an MT-09-based R9 design first started making the Internet rounds back in 2017, which is forever ago in bike years. Since then, both the MT-09 and Lee’s ensuing updated designs have shifted into the design you now see before you. Lee’s new design incorporates the updated CP2 engine and componentry found on the 2021 MT-09, as well as some of the styling cues that make it fit right in stylistically with the rest of the current Yamaha family.  

Racier ergonomics, and a thoroughly modern take on R-family fairings that bear a distinct family resemblance to what Yamaha’s already producing seem like an extremely logical conclusion. Would you be into an R9 if Yamaha decided to produce one, and would you want it to look like this if it did? Why or why not? 

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Yamaha To Launch Updated MT-07 In Japan Next Month - RideApart

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When Yamaha pulled the wraps off the new MT-09 and launched it in the global market earlier this year, many of Team Blue’s fans were enamored at how much the bike had improved as compared to the previous iteration. Rightfully so, as Yamaha packed it with quite a few notable updates. In fact, you could say that the 2022 MT-09 is, for the most part, an all new bike.

However, the same can’t be said for its younger sibling, the MT-07. It seems as though Yamaha may have taken the whole “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach just a tad too far, as the MT-07 was indeed beginning to look like a bit of a dinosaur. In a bid to bring the bike to the modern age, Team Blue went ahead and gave the good old 07 a cosmetic overhaul. Unfortunately, that’s where the updates end.

So yes, the 2021 Yamaha MT-07 is pretty much the same bike as it has always been since first breaking cover in 2015. It does get a new, very Dark Side of Japan-esque LED headlight, and new bodywork to make it look even more menacing and mysterious. It also retains the 689cc Crossplane parallel-twin engine which is also found in the XSR700 and Ténéré 700.

Having said all that, this bike has now been available in the U.S. market for quite some time now. It’s interesting to note that, just like the MT-09, the updated MT-07 is only being launched in the Japanese market. Yamaha Japan has pegged the launch of the update MT-07 on July 28, 2021, and has priced the middleweight streetfighter at JPY 814,000, or the equivalent of $7,342 USD. Even more interestingly, the MT-07 will be a rather rare machine in its home country, with just 700 units of the bike to be made available in Japan.

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Honda’s first electric SUV in the US will be called ‘Prologue’ - The Verge

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Honda revealed the name of the first of two electric SUVs it plans to sell in North America, and it’s one that many have already guessed, thanks to a recent trademark application. The vehicle will be called the Honda Prologue, and it will go on sale in the US and Canada starting in 2024, Honda of America sales chief Dave Gardner confirmed to reporters last week.

As a name, Prologue makes sense considering it’s meant to be the introduction to Honda’s efforts to completely electrify its lineup by 2040. It’s also, notably, a synonym for “Prelude,” the name of Honda’s iconic sports coupe from the 1980s.

It’s meant to be the introduction to Honda’s efforts to completely electrify its lineup by 2040

The Prologue will be the first of two vehicles that Honda is co-developing with General Motors, using the US automaker’s Ultium battery packs. The other vehicle will carry the Acura nameplate and will also be developed jointly with GM, but the company didn’t reveal any new information about it at this time.

“With the Prologue, our goal is to provide a highly competitive product with the functionality to meet the diverse needs of our customers,” Gardner said.

Previously, Honda has said that it will design the exteriors and interiors of the new EVs, while the drivetrain will be engineered by GM to support Honda’s specifications. These vehicles will be manufactured at GM’s North American plants, with sales expected to begin in the 2024 model year.

Honda’s interest in the name Prologue was already reported back in April when Car Buzz noticed that the automaker filed a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the name. According to the filing, Honda said it would use the name to cover “land vehicles, namely, automobiles, battery electric vehicles, and structural parts for the foregoing.”

Honda is staying mum on any other details

Honda is staying mum on any other details or specs about the Prologue at this time, although Gardner did say that the automaker was targeting an annual sale volume “roughly” between the Honda Passport and Honda Pilot SUVs.

But Honda doesn’t plan on stopping with just the two EVs it is developing with GM. Gardner said that in the second half of the decade, Honda will release a series of EVs built on the automaker’s own “Honda e-Architecture.” These vehicles will help Honda reach its goal of 40 percent of sales comprised of battery-electric and fuel-cell vehicles by 2030, 80 percent by 2035, and 100 percent by 2040.

“In short, our zero emission focus has begun,” Gardner said.

Honda’s electric lineup is extremely limited as compared to other automakers. The company recently discontinued its Clarity EV, though it will continue to sell hydrogen and plug-in hybrid versions of the vehicle. And its Honda E city car, which went on sale last summer, is only available in Japan and Europe.

Gardner acknowledged that Honda has a lot of catching up to do with electric vehicles, both to its competitors as well as with the numerous regulations that have been put in place to curb the sale of gas-powered vehicles.

“While we haven’t been perceived as leaders in recent years, we’re not neophytes in the electrified space,” he said, citing the hybrid Honda Insight, as well as the defunct EV Plus and the discontinued Clarity, as examples of the foundation on which Honda plans to build.

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