To support its city car, rather expensive and with reduced autonomy, Honda will offer another 100% electric model. This time, it should be an SUV, announced by a concept last spring. But the vehicle will not be marketed in Europe before 2023.
To switch its range to 100% electric, Honda is giving itself time. When some manufacturers have announced that they want to make this shift in 2030, or even before, the Japanese brand has left itself until 2040. It must be said that, for the time being, it only offers one model: the city car e, also crisp and expensive and penalized by a very limited autonomy. But the boss of the British subsidiary, Jean-Marc Streng, has just confirmed the arrival of a second “trendy” novelty in 2023 in an interview with our colleagues fromAuto Express. By adding that she would come to take place in “ the right segment, in order to get more sales “. Even if the term is never pronounced, everything suggests that it will therefore be an SUV.
A prototype presented last spring
It is all the more likely that Honda just presented a concept of an electric compact SUV last spring, at the Shanghai Motor Show. Or rather a “prototype”, a word designating in the vocabulary of the brand a car already almost ready for the series. The press release also announced the marketing of this SUV e: prototype from spring 2022 on the Chinese market, where the small e is not offered. But with its very demure look reminiscent of the recent third-generation HR-V, it would also have no trouble fitting into the European range a year later. It remains to know its characteristics and its autonomy, on which the manufacturer remains silent for the moment. If the low range of the Honda e is still a little excusable for a strict city car, it would become unacceptable for an SUV required to accomplish longer trips.
Source: Autoexpress
