► Honda previews new small electric car
► Promises to be fun to drive
► The Honda e *might* live on!
Honda has previewed a new small electric car with the ‘Super EV Concept’, set to be revealed at next month’s Goodwood Festival of Speed.
The cool kei car-inspired concept will have its debut at the FOS, with only a single camouflaged spy shot revealed so far of it testing in London.
Details of the Super EV are thin on the ground but Honda has said the concept has been designed to test the feasibility of having an electric A-segment car, sitting in the same category as the Dacia Spring and Hyundai Inster. The single image of it also reveals the boxy design, but also flared wheel arches, which are giving us a strong hint of the ’80s Honda City Turbo.
We’re particularly excited by this concept, though, as Honda says it has prioritised ‘fresh, fun-to-drive performance alongside trademark usability’. The purple-camouflaged prototype has already been used for ‘feasibility testing’ in the UK as part of a wider global testing.
If a production model gets the green light, it will be an indirect replacement for the Honda e – its brilliantly cool and innovative small EV sold between 2020 and 2024, though its success was tarnished by high pricing and a limited electric range.
The Super EV Concept will appear at the Festival of Speed alongside the European debut of the Honda 0 SUV prototype following its reveal at CES in Las Vegas earlier in the year.
Honda’s new Prelude coupe will also be heading up the Goodwood hillclimb, while the recently revealed Civic Type R Ultimate Edition – a highly-limited final runout version of its famed hot hatch before the car bows out of Europe – will also be making its appearance at the FOS.
Other global reveals already confirmed for the Festival of Speed include the Hyundai Ioniq 6 N, while Gordon Murray’s cars will headline the event, including the main sculpture.