I've mentioned my opinions
I've mentioned my opinions about why GM cut the Volt before. The Volt was still one of the top selling PHEVs in the country when Chevy announced dropping the Volt, and the Cruze was a good seller too, but both were cut in order to close several manufacturing plants in the U.S. and with the closures they are losing more American costly labor. GM's excuse was that they were moving to the future, cutting PHEVs and soon building a whole line up of BEVs. But now as we are approaching a year gone by Chevy still only has their Bolt EV, which has had no major updates even though it has renewed long range/lower cost BEVs to compete against. But still there are no new BEVs yet. I think that part of the problem is that the moment that GM actually announces any new BEV we will see the obvious question of when it is going to be built. And the answer will be China, with it's much lower labor force. But with U.S./Chinese import tariffs in place, it might not bring the profits that GM imagined. I had though that the Chevy Volt's market share would be taken up by the Prius Prime and Honda Clarity, but this latest move by Honda doesn't look good there. The Prius Prime is selling strong, but the Clarity sales have not jumped up as I expected. Honda's Clarity sales are still strong in California, and it is good that they didn't cut the Clarity altogether as they did the Volt, and you can still order and lease the Clarity PHEV in any state, so it looks like Honda doesn't want a lot of sitting Clarity inventory in dealership lots. Plus this announcement is no doubt related to Honda "pausing" production on Civics and Accords are the Marysville, Ohio plant. Supposedly to make room for increased CR-V production. At least Honda didn't just cut production of their economy models as Chevy, Ford, and Chrysler are doing.