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Honda Decides to Build Its Own Electric Vehicles in the Future

Japanese automaker Honda plans to design and manufacture its own electric vehicles (EVs) in the coming years.

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.

"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.

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.

Honda then plans to manufacture most of its own electric vehicles. The company has not decided if it will use GM parts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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重点解析

重点讲解：
1. move towards 走向；接近

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2. climate change 气候变化

Climate change is still very much a subject for debate.

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3. in the coming years 在未来的几年内

These problems may weigh heavily in the coming years.

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4. go on sale 上市销售

Tickets go on sale this week.

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参考译文

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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^)1|@Mu*O5@u6F。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gDg0KxDGhy。

电动汽车去年在美国新车销量中占比不足2%5#y_ek@egK!Kyw。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g~VV&]f41ZAEmS_T。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W9P[sx6I,*0xjYN.z。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&rE)skq&G,ZfV。大约占每年新车销量的25%oqsQYyfXlpaE4YE。

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