This merger could create the world’s third-largest automaker, with combined resources to dominate the EV market. Honda and Nissan hope to outpace rising Chinese brands like BYD and Nio.

As we correctly predicted a few days before the official press conference, Honda and Nissan are in the beginning stages of a merger. This means Honda and Nissan signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...

Yet the Nissan is hardly an outlier in its class. The Honda HR-V and the Toyota Corolla Cross, for example, are slower still, ...