Japanese electronics giant SonyThe carmaker HondaThey have established a joint venture in order to produce and sell electric cars, they said on Friday.

Sony and Honda plan to create a new company and start sales in their first car by 2025.

While the new company will be able to design, manufacture and sell electric cars, it will not have manufacturing capabilities. Honda, which has a long history in automobile manufacturing, will manufacture the vehicle at its plants. Sony will design the “mobility services platform” that the car uses.

Although it’s not clear what this might look like, Sony is an important supplier of image sensors to smartphones and increasingly designs chips for cars. Sony also has a significant gaming division.

Sony Mobility, a subsidiary of the company that makes electric cars, announced in January it would create a new company named Sony Mobility. It also released a statement. prototype sport utility vehicle called the VISION-S 02.

Honda has also been making the transition to becoming an electric vehicle company. According to the Japanese automaker, it will phase out gasoline-powered cars by 2040. Honda has an existing joint venture with General Motors for the development of its vehicles. new electric vehicles.

Sony and Honda’s joint venture is yet another sign of technology companies entering the automobile sector.

Both Baidu and Xiaomi are Chinese tech companies. formed electric vehicle companiesA report from last year indicated that there was a significant increase in the number of people who are homeless. Apple is ramping up its efforts in self-driving vehicles.