Honda: To withdraw from F1: EV concentration only next season:
Honda:
On October 2nd, Formula One (F1) announced that it would withdraw from the 2021 season at the end.
The shift to EV will accelerate.
Concentrate resources such as research and development from the engine to the same field.
Honda’s participation in F1:
Honda first entered F1 in 1964.
After that, withdrawal and re-entry were repeated.
Since 2015, he has participated in the race for the fourth time by providing power units such as engines.
2019 Race:
It impressed the revival, such as winning the championship for the first time in 13 years as a Honda team.
2020 race:
It is offered to two teams, Red Bull Racing and Alpha Tauri.
Reasons for withdrawing from F1:
In the future, he explained that it is necessary to focus management resources on research and development of FCVs and EVs in order to respond to the environment.
President Takahiro Hachigo:
“There were many opinions within the company that we should continue to participate in the war, but we decided that we should devote our engineers’ resources to the environment,” he said at an online press conference.
Global environmental regulations:
Headwinds will blow to existing gasoline-powered vehicles due to the tightening of global environmental regulations.
In Europe
Britain in 2035,
France by 2040
The policy is to ban new sales of gasoline and diesel vehicles.
California, USA:
Governor Newsam also announced in September that he would require all new vehicles sold in California to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035.
Nihon Keizai Shimbun
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