A Honda sedan moves down the assembly line on January 28, 2025 in the car manufacturer's meeting in Marysville, Ohio.
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Marysville, Ohio – Honda engine Starts the next generation of its production in a historically unusual place for the 75-year-old Japanese car manufacturer: Ohio.
Honda has completed more than 1 billion US dollars of new investments of more than $ 1 billion in the state this year. The upgrades mainly include the installation of six “giga presses” made by known by TeslaAnd a new “Zell” production system for its upcoming batteries with electric vehicles.
The emerging EV hub of the company in Ohio, including a separate battery plant of 3.5 billion US dollars, is the flagship for the global manufacturing operation of Honda. This includes the Marysville car works, which can produce traditional vehicles, hybrids and electric vehicles on the same assembly line, said officials during a day -long tour through the operations.
“The Honda EV Hub in Ohio is building the global standard for EV production for people, technology and processes,” said Mike Fischer, North America manager for Honda's battery-mounted vehicle projects. “If we expand the EV production regionally and globally, this is the footprint and the characteristic performance that is used.”
On January 28, 2025, Honda shows half of one of his new battery for electric vehicles in his engine and component work in Anna, Ohio.
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As a rule, such important manufacturing changes in Honda's home country Japan would begin and then, according to company officials, come into the institutions in the USA and elsewhere.
The Ohio investments were initially announced in October 2022 as part of the bidet management's advance on onshore production. They remain important because potential tariffs are heading for imported products such as automobiles by President Donald Trump.
In 2024, Honda produced more than 1 million vehicles in five US assembly plants. Around 64 percent were sold in the United States while the rest were exported. It has a assembly plant in Mexico.
After completion, Honda can produce around 220,000 vehicles annually in his work in Marysville in Central -Ohio outside of Columbus. The 4 million square meter plant is currently producing several Honda and ACURA vehicles, which are expected to be produced this year by an all-electric acura RSX crossover-DES of the first EV of Honda.
Honda 0 Saloon & Honda 0 SUV prototypes
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The Japanese car manufacturer invested too late in EVS compared to other car manufacturers. It currently sells two Reinectric Kreuzvers-Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX-, but these vehicles are produced by General Motors in Mexico.
The Honda 0 SUV and Honda 0 Saloon EV prototypes are followed by the new Acura Crossover, which the company debut last month at CES in Las Vegas.
The aluminum battery for the new EVs will be produced in the Honda engine complex in Anna, Ohio, the company's largest engine system, which grew from a small rectangle building in 1985 to more than 2.8 million square meters.
“We create this large aluminum production technology for all Honda,” said Tim Stroh, project manager of the EV batteries. “The goal here is to twist this other products, other factors around the world.”
A number of Honda's new 6,000-toned high-pressure machines, which “Megacast” or “Gigacast”, such as Tesla, “Megacast” or “Gigacast”, Battery Packs, for the car manufacturer in his engine and component work in Anna, Ohio.
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To produce the battery and other EV components as well as potentially motors in the future. The massive machines have the size of a small house and use an enormous amount of pressure to form parts. Current Honda presses are up to 3,500 tons in Ohio.
Gigacasting can be carried out correctly, the manufacturing costs per unit can theoretically reduce the welding of dozens of body parts by watering a single module according to S&P Global Mobility.
As soon as the packs have been poured, they are shipped from Anna to Marysville and other plants to have battery cells from Honda -Joint Venture operations with an LG energy solution before they are used in EVS final assembly.
A Honda employee in the large vehicle assembly plant of the car manufacturer in Marysville, Ohio, demonstrated
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To combine the battery cells and packs in Marysville, Honda installs almost 60 flexible manufacturing cells or zones for the battery arrangement. Instead of a conventional assembly line, in which parts are moved as a vehicle, the new production process takes place parallel to the main line in zones, which thus create it so that potential slowdowns or problems do not affect the main line.
“This is the second foundation for Honda,” said Bob Schwyn, Senior Vice President of Honda Development and Manufacturing of America. “We take the opportunity to reinterpret our manufacturing approach.”
Honda referred to its transition to electric vehicles, including fuel cells, as the “second foundation”. Despite the slower than expected introduction of electric vehicles in the United States, the company previously claimed to achieve no environmental impacts by 2050 by three critical areas of action: carbon neutrality, clean energy and resource circulation.
Lines of the new “cells” or zone, production system for the assembly of battery packs for electric vehicles on January 28, 2025 in the Honda assembly plant of Marysville.
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These goals also only include the sale of zero emission vehicles by 2040. Many other car manufacturers have delayed or withdraw such destinations in recent years.
The systems of more than 1 billion US dollars in current institutions in Ohio also include several new manufacturing processes and techniques to lower emissions and waste, including the use of a special form of structural aluminum for the EV -AKKU, the recycled and can be reused.
“We use the opportunity to reinterpret our approach to manufacturing and create a new value in the area of environmental responsibility,” said Schwyn. “This includes strategies to recapture our products at the end of life and then 100% of the materials, especially finite materials for EV batteries in order to make new Hondas from old Hondas essentially.”
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