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Sony and Honda Associate on EVs. Large Tech Desires Big Auto for Intelligent EV Ambitions.

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The Sony Vision-S 02, an SUV prototype automobile.


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The electrical-car or truck race just bought an additional entrant —sort of.


Sony (ticker: SONY) doesn’t make cars, but it desires to market wise EVs so it is partnering with


Honda Motor (HMC). The pair introduced a memorandum of being familiar with Friday about a strategic alliance. They will form a enterprise to establish “high-price battery electric vehicles and commercialize them in conjunction with offering mobility products and services.”

The target is to have a Sony-Honda EV on roadways by 2025.

“Sony’s function is to fill the globe with emotion as a result of the electrical power of creative imagination and technologies,” mentioned Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida in a information launch. “Through this alliance with Honda, which has amassed considerable worldwide expertise and achievements in the auto industry about several a long time and proceeds to make revolutionary improvements in this subject, we intend to establish on our eyesight to make the mobility house an psychological a single.”

A large amount of electronics and know-how businesses seem to imagine that autos are changing, and that linked EVs are an opportunity for other people over and above standard automotive gamers. Rumors of an


Apple (AAPL) automobile have circulated for months. Apple Apple iphone assembler


Hon Hai Precision Business (2317.Taiwan), improved identified as Foxconn, now owns an automobile assembly plant in Ohio.

Sony has expressed fascinated in EVs in the the latest past. It confirmed off a thought EV at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Demonstrate in Las Vegas.

The new Sony-Honda partnership demonstrates how tech entrants might get into the industry. Tech demands auto abilities to be successful — creating cars and trucks isn’t straightforward.


Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk is fond of pointing out that significant-scale manufacturing is quite challenging and that Tesla and


Ford Motor (F) are the only two substantial U.S. vehicle makers to under no circumstances have gone bankrupt.

The joint venture strategy, however, could possibly be a way to make a business that can get an EV-like valuation for a common automobile maker’s knowhow. Honda inventory trades for about 8 moments estimated 2022 earnings and the company’s sector capitalization is in the $50 billion assortment. EV startup


Lucid (LCID), for comparison, has a market cap in the $40 billion selection.

The last kind of the joint venture — like whether or not it will it have its own producing or count on Honda services — is not identified still. Honda did not promptly return a request for remark.

Investors surface to have turn out to be inured, considerably, to EV announcements coming from outside the car industry. Shares of both companies weren’t receiving a bump from the Friday announcement. Honda’s American depositary receipts fell1.5% in premarket buying and selling. Sony ADRs fell about .9%.


S&P 500
and


Dow Jones Industrial Ordinary
futures have been both down about .8%.

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One In Five Automotive Industry Leaders See Intelligent Systems As The Future Predominant Business Model

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While the idea of the automobile was invented in the late 1800s in Germany and France, the true commercial revolution of the industry occurred in the 1920s in the U.S. There were 40+ years of experimentation between 1880 and 1920, with different form factors such as steering sticks, drive systems, and even names (like the Stanley Steamer). Brands and technologies were secondary until the true mass production of one common form, and with that development in the 1920s came the exceptional volumes and growth rates that led to the tripling of registered drivers in the U.S. between 1920 and 1930.

The question now is this: Are we in the 1920s-like stage of an EV world that will usher in new economic models for a future defined not by the combustion engine but by software? Or are we still in an age of experimentation like the one from the later 1800s to the product revolution of the 1920s?  

New EV companies such as Tesla, Rivian, Polestar, Waymo, Uber, Piaggio, Fast Forward, Envoy Technologies, Hyliion, Ztractor, ChargePoint, or Revel, or companies such as SAIC, BYD, FAW Group, Geely (they own Volvo), BAIC, or Dongfeng could become the new leaders in this world, changing the way we think and experience the automobile. Or it could be the list of traditional vendors, from GM to Ford, Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes, Nissan, Toyota, and Hyundai who revolutionize the economic models and experiences we all (humans and machines) have with automotive products and services.

Ford certainly put their name in the hat in a big way with their recent announcement of an $11.4 billion investment in new vehicle and battery plants.

The current automotive industry sees razor thin (sub 5%) net margins, and the industry has a growth rate of less than 3% per annum. That is not a good formula for vibrant success, unless something changes. The traditional automotive industry might be worth just south of $6 trillion by 2025. The EV market might be valued at over half a trillion by that time.

This new EV number may sound small, a mere 12%, of the total by 2025. But when we talked with Forbes to leaders in the automotive industry about the new business models that would be driven by this EV revolution, 19% of them said they believe that their future isn’t just EV but will likely be a predominantly intelligent systems world. This means a world driven by constant interactions among the consumer, the company, and the product, with whole new economic models from the supply chain perspective (software led), constant innovation with digital feedback loops, and the capacity for automotive vehicles (whatever form they take) to self-heal and be reprogrammable through the cloud. 

One in five executive leaders are convinced that this is the future. For comparison, consider the

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