Honda announces a new line of electric cars, the Honda 0

L4sBot@lemmy.worldmod to Technology@lemmy.world – 139 points – Honda announces a new line of electric cars, the Honda 0 | CNN Business
cnn.com

Honda announces a new line of electric cars, the Honda 0::Honda unveiled two concept vehicles at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vagas that offer an early look at an upcoming line of electric cars.

38

I hate concept cars.

"We could make it look like this, but we really only will make it look like a Civic."

It doesn’t help that their concept cars don’t adhere to a number of mandatory roadway safety regulations, and they are showing off a $30k car that’s made with $150k of materials.

Economies of scale brother. No concept car is ever going cost the same as a manufactured car.

That's not the point. The point is that the concept car was a lie.

Giant class, gull wing doors, dashboard robotics, full dash OLEDs panels. You’re looking features and components that best a Model X / Cyber Truck. If they can get that down to a Honda level price range, that would be dope, but I have my doubts. A lot of things are all features that you get in cars that start at $80k… and this is more elaborate.

And, more importantly, this wouldn’t even be street legal. Mirrors, markers, etc. This was never intended to be what ships.

The point of concept cars is to throw in all your idea essentially and hoping something sticks. Love it or hate it, but a lot of car innovations have happened because of concept cars. Keyless entry, aerodynamic design, led lighting, collision avoidance system etc.

Well... We did get Tesla Cybertruck... If that doesn't look like a concept car then I do not know what it looks like. At least the exterior.

Not saying is a good or bad car, the feedback I hear is bad but I do not have one so... Not gonna say.

The 11th gen civic is dope af though. Source: I own one

Just bring the Honda-e over here ffs.

the name puts images of "E. Honda" from the street fighter games in my brain.

I looked through the instruction manual for Street Fighter II on the Sega Genesis.
The E stands for Edmond.

Amen, sister!! I’ve wanted one of those since they first launched in Europe.

I wouldn't hold my breath. In some EU countries Honda doesn't even admit this model exists anymore...

I'm guessing the relatively high price and low mileage might have killed it.

Wow I really like the interior layout of the Space-Hub. Like, why haven't people done this before? Unless it makes it somehow more dangerous not having seats in the traditional layout, hmm.

Well, as far as crash safety, I would think it would almost always safer to be facing backwards. That's the way infant car seats are. Facing backward would mean your whole body would absorb the inertia change against the seat and your head would be supported. Better than seat belt bruises and a bobble head imitation, seems like.

That's assuming the forward facing people in the back row are buckled of course. 60 mph headbutt would be...bad. Turn those seats around too maybe?

I think it's just less space efficient compared to having all the seats facing forward. The actual car will probably have a more traditional layout.

Yeah, it's just plain hard to get excited about concept cars. Rare to see much of it make it's way to production.

People keep kicking around new rear-facing seat idea for electric cars. Technically, an electric powertrain should allow for more cabin space, and therefore, creative configuration options.

It’s not an entirely new concept. There are come vans that have rear facing seats, and rear facing seats in wagons were a very hot item in the 80’s.

Am I the only one who thinks the Saloon looks like a Countach?

Yeah, I can see that. The silhouette, has some countach vibes.

Although I could also argue that the front profile has original Dust Buster energy.

Oh look, more really expensive looking electric cars that most can't afford.

I know it makes sense to start at that end of the market, but damn if it isn't annoying.

My favorite part about Concept Cars posts is how people get mad at how “impractical” the cars are. I feel like at this point they would know what the purpose of concept cars is by now. Can’t tell if ignorant or stupid.

And y'all thought the guys with RGB lights in their PCs were bad.

Well, now they're gonna do that to their cars and put em on the fucking road.

Source: I've actually seen one with lights dancing around the edges of the front windshield, windows, and back windshield. Fucking distracting shit, shouldn't be road legal. I don't exactly live in the biggest or most wild of cities, so if that shit is driving around here, it's elsewhere, too.

It’s a concept car. Concept cars are always weird. There is a bunch of stuff on this car that isn’t even street legal in many countries.

When concepts get translated into production, almost all of them become significantly more conservative and get stripped down to become more affordable, and have their designs altered to conform to regulations.

This is intended to be a marketing tool, that’s it. If these things went into production now, they’d be $100k cars that you couldn’t even register.