March 17, 2026
VTEC just kicked… out
Honda is killing its EVs
Fans split: Honda bails on EVs—smart pit stop or last gasp
TLDR: Honda paused multiple EVs, including its GM-built Prologue, blaming tariffs and Chinese pressure. The community split fast: some say it’s a sensible pit stop while gas cars still dominate, others call it a faceplant that leaves Honda behind as cars become electric, software-driven gadgets.
Honda just slammed the brakes on its baby electric car plans—pausing an electric Acura, shelving two “Honda 0” models, and even reportedly stopping the GM-built Prologue, per Automotive News. The official finger-pointing is at tariffs and China, but the crowd says the real story is Honda’s identity crisis: it’s a legendary engine company in an electric world. And that’s where the comments go full roast.
One camp is “it’s fine, chill”: ICE (gas-powered) cars still rule, so Honda taking a time-out is smart. As tim-tday put it, the wind’s blowing back to gas for a minute—kill the flops, not the research. Another camp calls it a blunder of the decade: EVs (electric vehicles) are more than batteries; they’re rolling computers. Skip the grind now and you miss the future—those over-the-air updates and slick dashboards people expect. Fans dragged Honda for seeing EVs as just “engines swapped for motors” while rivals rethink the whole car.
Then came the spice: one commenter tied geopolitics to the gas pump, arguing oil shocks push drivers to plugs. Others say Honda’s just waiting for standards and supply chains to settle—classic Honda, refining not inventing. The meme squad chimed in with climate snark and VTEC jokes. Bottom line: is Honda playing safe… or getting left behind by cars that update like phones?
Key Points
- •Honda halted development of the electric Acura RDX and the Honda 0 sedan and SUV, which were to be its first ground-up EVs.
- •Automotive News reported that Honda plans to stop production of the Honda Prologue, a model essentially designed and built by GM.
- •The article states Honda cited U.S. tariffs and Chinese competition as reasons for its EV pullback.
- •The piece uses Ford’s Mustang Mach-E, built on a modified Escape platform, to illustrate drawbacks of adapting ICE platforms for EVs.
- •According to the article, Ford’s CEO said the Mach-E’s wiring harness is 70 pounds heavier than Tesla’s, highlighting compounded inefficiencies.