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The soon-to-be-retired electrical SUV was calved from a collaboration pinch GM.
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After cancelling 3 EVs successful March, Honda is getting retired of nan US EV crippled wholly by ending income of nan Honda Prologue astatine nan extremity of this 2026 exemplary year, CarBuzz reports. The institution announced nan electrical SUV successful 2021, and started trading it successful 2024. With conscionable 2 years connected nan market, it's yet different casualty of the extremity of national EV incentives successful nan US.
"Honda will reason income of Prologue later this twelvemonth pursuing completion of nan 2026 exemplary year," nan institution said successful a connection to CarBuzz. "Prologue customers will proceed to person afloat support done our trader network, including service, parts, and warranty coverage." Engadget has contacted Honda for much accusation astir its EV plans successful nan US erstwhile nan Prologue is retired. We'll update this article if we perceive back.
The Prologue wasn't arsenic celebrated arsenic nan Tesla Model Y aliases Model 3 successful its first afloat twelvemonth of sales, according to Electrek, but it was still nan sixth-best-selling EV successful nan US. It was besides nan merchandise of a unsocial collaboration pinch General Motors, wherever Honda planned to usage nan car maker's one-size-fits-all Ultium artillery level to kickstart an eventual displacement into predominantly EV sales. GM yet abandoned Ultium successful 2024 successful favour of different artillery designs, prompting Honda to attraction connected its ain platform.
Honda later demoed immoderate of its next-gen EVs successful November 2025, but it was noncommittal astir bringing them to nan US. Cancelling nan Honda O sedan and SUV successful March signalled nan institution will apt withhold early EVs from nan US. The institution still sells compact EVs successful countries for illustration Japan and China, of course, but successful nan US, its zero-emission conveyance options are genuinely limited. Without nan Prologue, nan only action is nan Honda CR-V e:FCEV, a hydrogen substance compartment car that's only sold successful California.
While nan Prologue joins nan increasing graveyard of cancelled aliases retired EVs, location is simply a metallic lining, of a sort. The nonaccomplishment of national incentives has mostly wounded nan EV business, but nan rising costs of state has really helped EV income to stabilize. And if you unrecorded successful California, you tin now acquisition your first caller aliases utilized EV astatine a flimsy discount acknowledgment to recently introduced instant rebates.
