Honda Quarterly Loss - Streamlining Offerings

Not sure how to interpret the impact of this on Honda's current and future EV offerings.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/honda-reports-fiscal-quarterly-loss-streamline-models-62897791

Sure hope it doesn't 8-6 a planned plugin SUV (hopefully a Pilot or Passport size).

 

Two take aways: 1) "we will reduce the total number of variations at the trim and option level for our global models to one-third of what we have now" and 2) we will reduce the number of manhours we use for the development of mass-production models by 30%".

So, 2/3 fewer options/trims and 1/3 less engineering in the those designs.

 

With the new CR-V Hybrid featuring the 2.0L Atkinson engine from the Accord Hybrid, I am thinking Honda needs to develop a 2.4 L or 3.0L Atkinson engine for the Pilot PHEV. Surely they won't leave the 3.5L V-6 in place for it.

Toyota has a 2.5L Atkinson 4 cylinder. Does anyone have a 4 cylinder Atkinson larger than that? The luxury brands have been pairing 4 cylinder turbos with their electric motors for a few years, but now BMW has decided to switch the X5 plugin to an inline 6. Mitsu had put a weak 2.0L 4 cylinder in the Outlander PHEV and have gotten wiser and now puts a 2.4L Atkinson in it.