Honda e real-world REVIEW - with 10 London landmarks CHALLENGE!

This is the new Honda e and I brought it to London to see if I can

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it by comparing the car to ten of the capital's most famous

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. Wish me luck because it's absolute chaos buying a new car face to face. for deals from top uk dealers car wow dot co dot uk car buying comparison site before undertaking this

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I actually reset the car's trip computer. I'm going to see what your energy consumption is during this entire trip. to see how far it will actually go on a full charge so i have 97 battery saver my range is 118 miles but we'll see anyway let's go just start it up he's away quietly under the electric traffic light from London immediately, oh.

God, this might take a lot longer than I anticipated, it's quite early in the morning, it's only six and I have to do it this time because later we won't be able to get around London because it's just jammed with traffic, okay, it's coming the first location, can we see it? Where is just a ton of construction going on and a lot of new bike lanes being created due to covid? Everyone wants to ride a bike now the car is not welcome. Not London anymore, here we go, we're getting to the first location and I don't know how close we can get to it, let's find out.

I can see the top. I can see that only the top part here is. Battersea Power Station and it brings me to the battery on this car, so you have a 35 kilowatt hour battery on this car that supposedly lasts about 137 miles, so if you have larger 17 inch wheels on this car, it will only get a range of 125 miles now to charge it if you can find a 50 kilowatt charger it will charge from zero to 80 fully in just 30 minutes if you have a seven kilowatt war box at home it will charge from zero to 80 completely in four hours and if we are only using a three-prong plug that will take you 18 hours.

Anyway, it's quite a long time. There is. Look beyond the power plant. Obviously it is no longer active. It is being remodeled. It will be a shopping center anyway. Onwards to the next London milestone, so We're reaching the second London milestone. Where is? It's right behind a wall. You still can't see what it is. Look through those doors. See, that's it. There will be a couple of things that should give it. away in a moment look there see those big guns the imperial war museum we are talking about firepower and this caused firepower it has a pretty decent speed off the line this is the version that stops the rain and has a 154 engine horsepower that drives the rear wheels there to 60 in 8.3 seconds, but that's not what matters, what matters is that sudden closing of the zipper, which is fantastic for city driving.

Now you can get a lower-powered version that has 136 horsepower and takes more than nine seconds to get there. at 60 miles per hour one thing I like about this car is that it's not just about acceleration but also deceleration so it has a special braking mode which means when I lift the throttle I get severe regenerative braking, so I'll actually stop the car looking and do this and it will probably annoy other road users. Not

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ly, it's just someone here for once in London who sees it lift off the accelerator and stop, meaning you can drive by yourself using the accelerator pedal.

It also means that when you're slowing down, you recover energy and put it back into the battery to maximize your range. I like it. If you don't like it because you find it a little extreme, you can use the normal regeneration interrupt and you can alter that by putting the paddles like this to alter its ferocity and you get like a little dial that tells you how much you have, but that's not severe enough to me, we are going to make an imperial war of the British empire, yes. full b mode yeah it's for me I like that it's quite difficult to get to the next London landmark but it's actually up there you can see it oh it'll be in that building we'll see in a moment when we turn the corner lap. the corner is pretty easy to see there's a reason for that it's the tallest building in London now you should be able to see it quite clearly there it is it's the shard now it's all about the design look at it a shard of glass This car is also about the design.

I love the look of this thing. I don't know about you, you can make up your own mind, but it's so small, so cute, so unique, that it

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ly stands out even in this kind of anonymous blue. I prefer some of the other colors that you can get, like this white that looks like an iPad and then there's also this very bright yellow, which is cool, there's a gray that's stealthy, you've got two tone paint on all of them, it's a It has a great looks, just its shape, so Honda says it's not a retro car at all, although its shape is very similar to the original Civic.

Also the interior is very well designed but to me it has a retro feel, it's a bit like someone in the 70s designed a car for the 2020s because it's kind of 70s with the wood that is actually wood fake, but then you have all these screens and I'll talk more about these screens later, but I like the interior design. Some of the quality of the material in some places is a little sketchy, but in others it's really nice. I love this steering wheel. The two spokes make it feel nice, spacious and airy. It's a good design.

Is it as good as a design like the fragment? I think so. For the automotive

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, I love the little round headlights, I like the way it has that black panel along the grille, obviously it's not a grille because it's an electric car and then the design of the taillights I also like like. frameless windows, it has a very nice little shape, even the way they have given the charging port on the hood a touch, the wheels look great, these 17 inches on this car, they are unique, the whole car is unique , this is the kind of car you see. in and you just want it and try to convince yourself why you need to buy it.

It is very different than any other Honda currently on sale. Let's say I'm sorry, Honda, but it's true, we know that, right? Come on. On to our next landmark and it is one of the most famous in all of London. Look at this. See the beautiful Tower Bridge built in 1886. It is a feat of Victorian engineering. In fact, it rises in the middle to let large ships pass. A really funny story about A long time ago, some Americans bought London Bridge and paid a lot of money for it thinking that this was London Bridge, exactly Tower Bridge, obviously, and they ended up with London Bridge, which was only to play a boring old bridge that was sent to them in the United States for quite some time. a lot of money, that was our revenge for their independence approach anyway, as I say this is all about engineering and so is this car.

Honda's engineers have squeezed a nice little electric car into this little package, it's just over four meters long, so very short. It has a proper fully independent suspension, so many cars have a fairly basic rear suspension. The advantage of the independent rear suspension is that it means this car is good at overcoming bumps and is quite comfortable. It has a firm edge that gives it. It has a bit of a sporty feel, but handles bumps very well. Plus, the all-round independent rear suspension means that when you're going down a twisty road, it holds up pretty well and has a fun element to it that I've driven. on some country roads and I was impressed.

I mean, it's obviously not a sports car, but it gets the job done. Another thing that Honda engineers have achieved with this car is a perfect 50:50 weight distribution. You can tell they've been thinking they could make a Type R version of this little electric vehicle, which would be cool. It would be the first electric Type R. I hope they do it now. I'm doing what you have to do a lot in London and hoping it works again. traffic lights I hope to be able to move around to see all the

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I need. We head to the city of London now for the next waypoint.

Can you guess what it could be? That's what's there. It is an impressive building. It probably costs a lot. well, because he's got quite a bit of money, it'll be clear what it is when I turn this corner, hopefully I'll get to the front, oh chaos, classic London chaos, imagine having to drive that around here, poor guy, here's the front. Well, we've got the Bank of England with that man there, oh, he's got a mate, he's looking after all our money. I expect them to be pretty tough, so the Bank of England takes me to the price of this car, it starts at just under £27,000. so it's actually more expensive than a mini eu which is around 25k, a renault zoe, a peugeot e208 both are 26,000 pounds and the e up is only 21,000 pounds.

However, this car includes many equipment, such as panoramic. roof and you have automated cruise control with lane keep assist and radar monitoring to keep you a safe distance from the car in front. You obviously have all these screens, so it's well equipped. This is the advanced model so it costs around £29,000 and with this you get a heated steering wheel, you also get this fancy rear view mirror with a camera, so you press this button and it flips over, watch clips so it's a camera because now it's a camera, so if people are sitting in the back and you can't see past their big heads.

Move it like, oh God, this is scary, oh, it's not fun to drive around here, I'll tell you, yeah, pretty expensive. If you click on the pop up banner up there you can go to the car where you can store an average of around 600 pounds or one of these

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easy which isn't bad considering it's new and of course every little bit helps because I think it is an overpriced car, especially when compared to the fact that it has a lower range than all the cars I own. I've mentioned which ones are actually cheaper, what a Honda plays in a little further out, there's the River Thames.

Now I don't have it as one of my reference points, so I can't really think of a link to the car, maybe you can, it flows. in the future, very good, please come up with some suggestions in the comments below, do my job for me because I can't do it properly. Oh, we're going to have a little battle to get into position to find the next London landmark and this one. The car is crossing like it is looking in, there is no solidarity, there is no solidarity with electric car owners, it was fucking with me and blinding me, come on i3, we are all in this together, we are electric car guys, honestly, London, I'm surprised there are more people in London.

Don't drive electric cars because they are congested and they charge you exempt, otherwise you will have to pay £15 for the pleasure of driving to central London and believe me, it is no pleasure at all, so paying tax on it is also a double . Kick the balls, should I come closer to you now? In fact, let's check the horn, oh, pretty much like the horn, yeah, come on, hurry up buddy, come on, you can have some of that too, yeah, I hope it doesn't come out and hit me. It looks pretty scary anyway the next London landmark is down here and unfortunately this guy is going in the same direction I hope he doesn't stop where we stop oh fuck he's really going the same way he enters the theater district here look no let's go Although we're going down this road towards one of the strangest places to drive in London, you'll see why in a moment, Covent Garden, up there, where all the tourists go, here we go, where are you?, here we go, here we go , here it is. the famous savoy hotel now that is actually a road that is a road but it is a strange road because in the uk we drive on the left because of the way knights used to fight they had their sword and they would escape there and then take it out like that and they would attack like that to pass people on the right side and then everyone else would drive on the right because Napoleon didn't want to do it the same as the British because he bitter and that's why nations drive on the right because of Napoleon, Anyway, you drive on the right when you enter that road towards the Savoy hotel.

I've heard the reason is because taxi drivers have to be able to stop here outside the Savoy and open the door in the old days, you opened the door for passengers and you had to do it from the driver's seat. So, by getting off in the right taxis, you should be able to get around this roundabout quite easily. outside the hotel and as a result they have to have a turning radius of about eight meters. They have it just under eight meters. This car has a turning radius of just over eight metres, a little more than a London taxi, which makes it not as manoeuvrable. but it's very, very maneuverable and yet more so than any other car I've driven apart from a London taxi I drove, so here's the Savoy Hotel.

I can't afford theluxury of staying there, so I think we'll go out and search. I can see see see see that on the road and then I go remember to switch to the right side of the road which is the left side of the road we Brits are weird here we are at our next landmark in London there it is or it is Horatio Nelson the one at the top of his column, so Nelson defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain in 1805. In reality, he was outnumbered, his ships were completely Outnumbered, but he used some really smart ones.

The maneuvers to destroy the Spanish and the French were like floating and floating sailing in a straight line and he put his ships between them that way, he couldn't point their weapons at his ships, but he could actually blow them up. pieces because he could point his guns at them but they couldn't point them at him because they were obviously shooting off to the side at nothing anyway he decimated their fleet he won the battle unfortunately he was obviously shot and they commemorate his great achievement upon his death they built that column in 1840, so the battle of Trafalgar was about smart maneuvering and this car is very, very maneuverable, you know what I did there, so the steering is very sharp, sometimes it's precise in electric cars, no.

I feel like the front wheels are really connected to the steering wheel, but with this one you really do it and it helps you get in and out of traffic. Also, visibility is good, so the dashboard is quite long, you sit a little high. taller than it probably is in a normal hatchback, not like an SUV obviously, but that gives you a good view and there's a lot of glass and that roof also helps let in light so you can see exactly what's going on, God no. I don't know how many traffic lights I'm going to hit today, oh, right there, as long as we're here, we might as well talk about it.

Look, there's also the national gallery and then there's some kind of modern art. Can you see that one? some kind of ice cream with a cherry on top and a drone trapped there is where they have something weird and modern to balance the statues and stuff. I could be a London tour guide, couldn't I, although not many people would do that. fit here and that brings me to my next London landmark, we head to a red road that leads there and this road is called the shopping center and at the end there is a big old house, it's Buckingham palace, it's where Betty lives. in case you're not british betty is short for elizabeth so that's where queen elizabeth ii lives our queen oh she's in the flags raised if the british flag flies over buckingham palace it means that the queen is in residence, we will pass by and say.

Hi, see what you think of this car, we are quite close to Man Bay anyway, Buckingham Palace is very very spacious, so let's talk about the interior space of this car, shall we? Because it's certainly not palatial, it's actually nice here in the front because of the way it's designed. It's quite spacious because there's really nothing separating you or the front passenger, there's no gear selector, but in the back it's very comfortable and you can only really fit two people in the back, you only have seat belts. security for two. The problem with the rear seats is not the headroom, it is actually quite good, however the knee room is tight, especially for people over six feet, and then there is the fact that with the batteries Below the floor, the knees end up quite high and there is very little underneath. thigh support so not as comfortable in the back for long journeys, then there's the boot which is tiny, 170 litres, it's smaller than the minis, it's a lot more than a peugeot e208, it's almost useless , only two small airplane-style carry-on suitcases fit. in the trunk, if you need more space in the trunk and you don't have rear passengers, you can fold down the rear seats, although they simply fall down as a single unit, which is annoying if you want to transport three people and a few extra things, why No?

They have split folding rear seats. I want to like this car. I really want to like it, but I'm not sure how I could completely live with it. The door bins are pretty horrible. Plus, I can almost look, I can fit into it. bottle inside with a squeeze that's why it's all squished together it's not great you have a little extra cup holder here and I like that design and there's also a bag down there where you put your cell phone you have all your USBs and your connectors down here there's some too dividers here where you can put things, which is quite useful, but other than that for passengers, rubbish and absolutely terrible for their luggage, I'd rather be there, that's for sure, frankly, much more for me. and I'm a guy from Warsaw and I live in a burgeoning two-bedroom apartment at the moment, so the Honda E actually looks quite familiar to me.

We approach our next landmark and it's about this aspect, it's Piccadilly Circus and us. We're here for those screens, it's famous for having these huge television screens and obviously that brings me to the technology in this car with its huge screens, so you have a big screen for the passenger and another one for the central navigation system. digital information and entertainment. driver screen and then we have the two cameras on each side. I'll talk about these first. You don't have rear view mirrors on this car, you have small cameras that stick out a little and aren't really any wider. than the wheel arch on the car, so they actually face slightly inwards and give you a clear view of what's on the side of your car.

Now I have tried the digital rear view mirrors on an audi e-tron and it just doesn't work because the screen is down there, whereas here they are in the right place. I use them quickly and they let you know what's in your blind spot, actually better than a mirror. I think now it's one of the problems you might think of. You have these cameras, if it's raining, they will get covered in water, but their design and the fact that they are covered with a special water repellent coating means that they won't get covered in water, so you always get a clear view in the mirrors. , okay, what's not so fun is the infotainment system, so some of the menus are a little confusing, but it's not that bad, you have big icons to use, the problem for me is the fact The graphics are a little faded, it's not the sharpest screen.

I wish they had done a little more with her. I spent a little more to make sure the screens weren't super sharp. It's a shame because it's a centerpiece of the car, they got a little cheaper. a little bit, it's also not the most responsive, sometimes it's a little slow, come on, come on, come on, come on, I want to see Android Auto again, yeah, come on, that's what wakes up and that's a little frustrating, it's not horrible , you can use it. and you'll still run your Apple CarPlay or Android Auto through it so you don't have to worry about the Honda system, which isn't the best to be honest, but it lets you down a little because it's not that high. -technology like the car really deserves it and really deserves it at this kind of price and they honk at us quite a bit because we have a white van, the man is not happy here we are going to see this guy here on the right, he is upset, look with this guy is upset, I thought they would be cool, I thought they would like to forgive this little car because it's so cute, but no, right, we're driving towards our last waypoint and as we do, we'll pass another waypoint. not including driving through a place called whitehall, that's downing street, hence all the security, that's where the prime minister, mr boris johnson, lives. here is the cenotaph that remembers all those who have died in various wars around the

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and on November 11th the Queen will put a reef there anyway here is the final landmark, it is the palace of Westminster, also known as the houses of parliament, has been renovated at the moment at enormous cost, but that is the home of British politics and that brings me to the politics surrounding this car. electric cars, the government is pushing them, so you get a £3,000 government grant to buy one in the UK, which helps and obviously there are various tax breaks.

If you have one as a company car, you can park for free in London in certain cases. they can apply the congestion charge for free, they are pushing people towards electric cars, however they don't really fully support the infrastructure, unless you have a tesla it's a bit harder to find charging places. Tesla with its supercharger network is second to none. so there's a fact about the actual range that you get from these cars, like I said at the beginning of this video. I turned on my trip computer. I've ridden 20 times in March and it averages four miles per kilowatt, which is actually okay.

I've been driving around town and if I do the math four miles per kilowatt, it has a 35.5 kilowatt hour battery, which means it has a range of about 140 miles, but like I said, just driving around town, you'll see if You want to drive longer on the highway. We probably won't get that kind of autonomy, there will be many fewer electric cars and much more efficient in the city. Now Honda makes this car as a city car for use in the city, but let's be honest if If you spend £29,000 on a car, you'll want to use it for longer trips, even if the manufacturer says "oh no, it's actually just a car urban".

One of the poorer electric cars for how far you can travel on a full charge and that for me is a big problem with the Honda. I love it, I like the way it looks, I think it's cool, I think it's quirky, I think it has personality. and personality helps a lot, but unfortunately this car doesn't help much and that brings me to five annoying things about the

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and the rear windows, I only go down here, which is terrible, and then when you load them, when you open the door you are left with this pick and it can be like piss on my face in one place a little pierced my foot in my spine if you have long legs there is a good chance that you will end up hitting the heated seat by mistake, that is really annoying in summer because you're driving and then you think: why is my butt so sweaty?

The camera for that interchangeable rearview mirror is actually there, unfortunately it doesn't have one. Honda says they decided not to give this car a really long range because they didn't want to put too many batteries in it because that would add weight. which makes sense, but what doesn't make sense is that this car is heavier than an electric mini and a peugeot e208 and both cars have longer ranges, so what's that about one of the best things about electric cars , especially those with engines in the back is that they should have some storage space under the hood because obviously there is no engine there, so the honda e has no space, in fact, what is all this?

It's not entirely negative, although here are five good things about this car that you might wonder where the antenna is on this car for the radio and GPS. It doesn't even have one of those little shark fin arrows on the roof, that's for sure. because the antenna on the GPS module is actually integrated into this pillar, so the design stays nice and clean, there are some really cool features on this car, they are very Japanese, obviously, this image you see here is from a Japanese garden, but check this out, if I press this button, I can turn the screens into an aquarium look and I can hit like. that to feed the fish I can also change the size of the fish and the backgrounds, so let's go for something a little more interesting, let's wait for it to load and there we go, let's feed those fish.

I just wish I could make the fish. eat each other, I could add a shark, but you can't yet, it's cool, you can get a special digital key for your mobile phone so that it automatically locks and unlocks the car when you approach it, it will allow you to start it and connect your phone to the cast smoothly so you don't have to fiddle with cables then you are ready to go, in addition to the usual USB input and a 12 volt socket, it also has a three pin socket with 230 volts and 1500 watts capacity so you can charge your laptop there or even run a game console, speaking of which, you can connect that game console to this HDMI port and then play the games on the car screens.

Honda has really gone all out in the design of this car. The exterior door handles look so poppy. I like that I also like the fact that they hide the rear door handles because it may look like a three-door, but it's actually just a five-door and how about this? We have brass seat belts. just brown, I don't care, I like them, so what's my final verdict on the new Honda E? Should you avoid it? Should you consider it? Should you shortlist it or should you go ahead and buy it right? I think you should consider the. honda e is really cool, it's cute, it's nice to drive and it does something a little different than any othercar, the only problem is that it's flawed, it's expensive, the range isn't great and it's not the most practical, oh dear, I still love it.

I love your Honda, yes, yes, you have personality, that's what matters. There is a statue of Winston Churchill. I don't need to explain who it is surely. Hey Google, what's the Piccadilly Circus statue? Showing results for What is the Piccadilly Circus statue along your route hello do you like my car I like mine I have one of those it's a bit dirty for the environment this is electric it's pretty typical for London you talk to an Italian in a German car in a British city