Honda e: the EV that electric car haters love // Jonny Smith CarPervert

My name is Johnny Smith and in this episode I'm going to be driving the most hyped

electric

car that isn't a Tesla in Spain under a biblical storm, join me, this is probably the longest I've ever waited to drive a finished car. production since our first type as a concept in 2017 rolled out of the Frankfurt Motor Show, a show normally dominated by the Germans. Let's face it, and this thing just destroyed absolutely everything around it, every spine inch, everything social. The media was all about Evie's urban concept. I was able to touch it, play with it, and interview the designer at the end of 2017 in Japan.

Today we are going to drive this car. How different is it from the original concept? It's called the Urban Evie now it's just called the Honda II which is a shame because I quite like the Urban Evie and we've been strictly told that this car has been designed all along with an urban environment in mind. Frameless doors are very popular in Japan, the old frameless door, if you look at it from a style perspective. I

love

the two-spoke steering wheel, which is just unusual, it's not sporty, stable and sporty, as normally a three-spoke one gives you that feeling of extra space.

This type of flat wooden plinth. under all these television screens, this isn't even real wood, it's not even real wood, yeah, and yet it feels special and it feels a little bit homey. You have this crazy screen set up on twelve point three inch touch screens here and then you have I have an 8 inch TFT for the driver's binnacle type and then you have the two ear screens with camera here, left and right, the rear view mirror It's a camera, it uses a camera on the back of the car, but if you rotate it you would normally wet it to eliminate glare and then it goes back to being a conventional mirror.

Honda has said this several times in their presentations: they want the e2 to feel like a luxurious saloon even though it's a fairly small car. come on, let yourself get carried away with this lock steering lock of course we are going to go out for what is believed to be one of the stormiest weeks in Valencia you just need to look at the palm trees that I am trying to get used to Cameras that replace the mirrors because I have a camera up there and I have a camera there and I have a camera there and I have a camera there and I have a camera there, so it's proper Japanese technology. overload now Honda has gone big with the arrow which is presumably why they went for this design without rear view mirrors, instead you have these little nodules with the cameras much better for aerodynamics but not really They are like the Audi e-tron, which is the only other one.

I think the production car has cameras instead of mirrors, the e-tron has stupid stalks sticking out so they still look like outside mirrors, doesn't make sense, these don't look like outside mirrors having these screens here, unlike the Audi e-tron. that has a man down on the top of the doors, it just doesn't work, these side cameras have a special rain repellent coating and today is the best test you will ever have in the life of this car with gale force winds and rain. You can already hear the wind whistling across this bridge next to me if I look there it's very clear and if I look over there it's absolutely crystal clear that's good these are more on board than those swollen wheel arches so You are more likely to hit the car's arch or brake alloy than hit the mirror.

This is their first all-

electric

car from the ground up, so it's an important car to put up with. It is a good statement because it shows that they are not following. The crowd knows that it is not an e-tron, it is not a Mercedes EQC, it is not a conventional hatchback like a Leaf or a Kohner is, which is some kind of crossover. It has a 35 kilowatt hour and a half battery. Pack a single motor in the rear of 113 kilowatts, there is also a lower range motor, you can really feel that that will reduce the weight. 50/50 weight distribution, that one hundredth dialed in on this car.

The battery will be nice and low between the axles. I like the direction. I put it in sport mode and I have plenty of battery before I reach my destination. I think it's ready for more power. It has independent suspension. The Honda II and you can really feel that I

love

it. the way it's damped the suspension feels firm you don't feel uncomfortable it feels like it's paused for a bit of action when it comes to roads the response is certainly nothing like Tesla it feels slower than a Peugeot e 208 in sport mode, feels like it's perfect for a Type R for a complete Type R AV, the first in the world.

I guess I feel like this is going to be a cold, tuneable car. I like Honda when it's more quirky and just goes off on its own tangent. when Honda actually makes it for me, there are people on my social media when I first saw this car and posted pictures about it in 2017, they didn't even have any interest in electric cars and they just wanted a part, they wanted it. for the way it looks because it's a great piece of design when I interviewed the designers, they were very keen that I not call it retro because on the one hand it seems retrospective because of cars like the Honda Civic, the first generation Honda.

Civic from the mid seventies and even the mid seventies, the VW Golf Mark, one of those with two of the designs that a lot of people compare this to with this C pillar here that rises up and then you have the bulb. arches and you have the really simple Dorland with this groove that goes from the hood all the way to the end and then on the back, the front, the face and it has a really wonderful happy face, I mean, even in this kind of darkness. metallic gray, which is a pretty sensible color for this car, it was actually launched with that beautiful pearl white, but the black concave face with these characteristic fillets you see, that's what everyone is involved with down here, is the air intake, so there's the air. the air entering the battery pack is between the axles but yes the Honda badge no longer lights up you can see the indicators are around the edge of the Tipton's headlights and when you look down at the full front profile you can see these bulbous wheel arches and they were a feature of the original urban television concept that everyone really resonated with.

Let's go to the side. I know what you're thinking. It's a good side profile, isn't it? It's just a car of great proportion. They are three thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. millimeters long it is about four and a half centimeters longer than an electric mini a mini but it is much shorter than the Nissan Leaf it is much shorter than an E Golf it is shorter than the polished I Kona it is shorter than the Renault Zoe the seats I get bored of leather, leather, so done to death, and it's great to see alternatives to the skin of dead animals, and this is a type of recycled polyester fiber, it feels a little more cozy, you know, there's something else big here, that Scandinavian thing of relaxing and lighting candles.

I won't like the candles, but we'll do everything else. I just wanted to check that I have the seat in its lowest position. By the way, it is a mechanical seat. No, there is no electrical switch. I don't mind at all and sit quietly. high relative to the, so you get a more upright posture in a crossover stance, really a safety setup if I go into this is the Honda sensor suite that comes standard in the low speed braking control that it was tested this morning almost in reverse on a The bollard dog collision mitigation braking system wrote the exit blind spot and it also has the park assist which if I press that button there it will help me park which It's not new to cars these days, but it's something a lot of people like me don't do.

I really don't think you need a parking assist if you have such a short car with this kind of turning radius and you've passed a driving test. I think you should be fine. This is one of the fun things Honda says about the e. Because it is a city vehicle, they wanted to get a huge turning radius. Well, actually, it's not a small turning circle. In part, this is a turning circle of four point three meters, which is even smaller than the Smart's, which measures about six point nine five meters. much less than a London taxi that measures eight and a half meters.

The Nissan Leaf that has a tenant circle of 11 meters is ridiculous. I have to try it. It looks broken, so let's close it completely now with this pillar. here, let's see if I should comfortably go around and around the other one between these two Wow Wow, that's good, look I can go around again, that's actually very good, so you think about how agile this car is of less than 4 meters long with a turning circle of 4.3 meters, that's pretty good, right? I don't find it boring at all. I guess I should probably drive it properly now instead of just going around in a tight circle in a parking lot, we're in gale force winds. and flooding right now and it feels very, very calm, what I would say about the Honda is that although some of the plastics, like the door sills where you enter the car, the sills and this piece of plastic under The imitation wood is not shiny.

The dashboards aren't brilliant I would say, either compared to German cars and things like that, and even compared to the /goe 208 which I think has a gorgeous interior, it's just a great piece of design and it's very comfortable, so done, okay, we get to the Now look at that badge, that font is cool. I really like that the thing about the Honda is that it doesn't follow the design of any other Honda in the current range. The Hondas have been a bit picky with the design. Civics have gone through a strange phase, this is so simple, all the lines are so simple and yet it is so desirable.

I just hope that the popularity around this car, the hyper of this car, pushes Honda's design to other models and we get other electric and electrified models. In fact, by 2022 Honda says that all its models will be electrified. I think of the reverse light, so you illuminate the reverse with a camera there and there's a camera in the middle and inside this kind of dark gap and then you have the tail light cluster indicator around the perimeter, your tail lights bright red in the middle. I think now we get to the trunk and this is the part that I think will test whether the visual appeal of the Honda II is enough to just make you want it because it's great on the inside and it looks great on the outside the trunk is a tiny 171 liters with a mine the electric minis a small car has a trunk of 230 liters and the nice thing is only a Kona and the eGolf and those types are more than 300 liters it is small this is your charging cable and there is a cable there this is for the plug from home the three prong home plug setup and this is your puncture repair kit so there isn't another deep flat underneath there it is this here is enough for you do you still want it?

I think what we have here is a car that you want so badly based on visual appeal that you'll forgive the fact that the trunk will probably only fit one of my kids' school backpacks, not both. This is the advanced model that has 17-inch wheels that look like gas. Hobbs in an oven are really like that, you can order them with 16 and that gives you more. A panoramic glass roof is standard. This is called modern metallic steel. All Honda Riis are two-tone, either Platinum White, Charge Yellow, which is probably my favorite color. Crystal black. Metallic crystal blue.

It's very tall, but counting all this is probably The most sensible sinister color for the Pikachu took on the Honda II, so you have plenty of legroom, big open footwells like a little floating center console here that doesn't close this space and down there you have a suitable 3 points. plug in a house plug along with other type of cigarette lighter sockets, clamps, USB and a little pocket, you have this little leatherette handle, you take it out, you have a cup holder that just pops out, you have these little dividers and you have the The space is the size you want, it depends on how many drinks or where you can have it completely open.

I guess on the center console again there isn't much to do. Park reverse and neutral. Drive and then you have the driving mode that changes between sports or normal fight play a video I go to HDMI look I'm watching our video about Honda motorcycles but the idea here is look I have this on this screen if I go like this I put it there because the passenger could so be watching something or playing a game and then I can display whatever I want here, so let's say I want my trip computer to appear here in my TV mode so I can deal with those sensitive things.

I have a home button up here. physical but you have a couple of touch buttons @p you have a lovely little old volume control so you have your physical buttons here to do my D D lords and screens and my heated seat so I can go to that without getting in there, there's a smart equalizer, it's a new smart equalizer, what a coincidence, they're only talking about those this morning when you turn on thepedal drive function you just did, the regeneration is much more aggressive, up to a point, 8g of regeneration apparently you know it's pretty harsh, right?

So I won't be crawling anymore when I get in it stops and I can take my feet off the pedals without putting it in park without keeping my foot on the brake the car just comes to a stop so if I didn't have it on a pickup Monica uses the brake hold button like I do on the Eagle of other cars, you can go from a pedal movement to a normal movement and then with one with the normal movement I can go for different stages of regenerative braking with these pedals on the steering wheel, I like a bit of regen, not as hard as a pedal and that pedal takes away the shudder you get in traffic like an automatic gearbox, so I'll leave it off a pedal and just put the regional on a bit more at the loading port.

Now this is a real focal point of the front of the car. For starters, it's glass, it's very high quality and they've tried hard not to hide it inside this sort of black concave frontal Mars, so what they're saying is that they're proud of the fact that it's electric, they want the owners to be proud of it. I'm a little worried about the rain coming in here, but presumably it's Honda. they think about things like that and it was up to 100 kilowatts DC so you've got CCS here it feels good to the touch now we're getting close to making a quick stop for lunch and a fast charge will just give you a quick squirt of CCS fast charge weather lovely very nice yeah just come back go back to the little hall Honda come in quickly I'm going to take a look at my aquarium um of course you have these screens to play with and you can see things on the screens but one thing I particularly like is the Honda, it's Honda's party piece, the aquarium now I'm a big fish keeper.

I've been since I was a kid and you can also modify the aquarium because let's face it, it's a Japanese car company. so I'm going to go from a Coral Sea water environment to a kind of planted mangrove like that and I'm going to increase that breed of fish and I'm going to save that clock and if I touch the screen because if it wasn't dumb enough. I can feed the fish. Look, I'm dropping pellets in the food. Look at the pellets and the fish are attracted to that, but I think that's really cool. It's so Japanese.

In fact, it would be even more Japanese if they got caught. by Dave from there our koi carp can be the next generation. I have plugged it into charge and you can see from it: it has a 78% charge. It will take 29 minutes, so 100 kilowatts is as fast as you can go. You can charge it. but the strange thing is it will go from 0 to 80 percent in 30 minutes at 100 kilowatts but at 50 kilowatts it will go from zero to our 80 percent in 31 minutes and I checked with Honda if this is a typo and they said no and I don't understand.

The reason it's not faster must have to do with battery management or something, which I think is a bit strange. At 6.6 kilowatts, one of these wall chargers will take just over four hours. See this gap here, although between the air conditioning or heating outlet that space there I keep looking at it thinking I want the Honda to have a nice chrome badge on the trunk. I want one of them in there, you know, like the old classic Fords and things would have equipment or something. written on his little shield like Honda in his minor complaint, reminds me right at the beginning of dr.

Dre album 2001 the intro I forgot what the name of the obligatory low speed noise that remakes the Honda reminds me of the harmonizing voices of the seventies hit 10cc I'm not in love while charging the e and having a coffee One of the project team members Honda was sitting in the car and you saw him playing with a Nintendo connected to the HDMI cable jack there. Now he said the reason is to encourage people to watch TV or play games and that kind of stuff while you're charging, so use the charging time as a hobby if you don't want to work or have lunch or anything else, and I guess that too It reminded me that in places like Tokyo, where space is so at a premium, a space and therefore a G car is like a little private sanctuary because Honda, like many other manufacturers, believes that connectivity is the future of automobiles. and probably the future to engage younger people with cars or prepare everyone for autonomy.

One thing this has is a personal assistant. button there and I can say any point ok Honda, what's the Latin for cowfish? I'm sorry, I didn't forget. Did you say that again? I just want to know the simple things how far is the airport and the remaining travel distance. It's twenty point zero kilometers from the car I couldn't recognize the expression for example you should try saying play FM radio or how much gas do I have left tell me the performance can you ask about topics like searching for destinations operating the audio system I I really struggle with a source map operations functions of the car operating the instructions and the weather you are done tell me how far is Christmas 11 months 4 days 9 hours 17 minutes and 51 seconds left until Christmas Day turn off the navigation voice navigation that's not it, it's not what I said that you'd be a rubbish lawyer that's not what I really said I love you but you're useless I love existing I'm just not the type of person who needs these things in a car it's not for me I like a car to be good at driving I can't stop thinking which is when tonality is not necessarily useful.

This is working, learn, learn, rain repellent lenses on the side cameras, the rear camera has problems, the same conditions see the headlights of the car that follows me mirror technology because I test drive a car only for a short period of time. I have to try to learn quickly, so I have issues with some of Honda's technology here, but in terms of a single-driver car, I think it's a really good driver's car feels very promising. Something I don't quite understand is that Honda has made sure to say that this car was always designed for urban use and they have made it small and they don't see the point in making V. physically larger because people seem to be chasing range and just the rank and they don't think that's the way to go, but this is what I don't fully understand, but also at the same time this is fifteen hundred and forty-two. kilos, that's the thing, so it's heavier than all the cars it competes with, but all the cars it competes with have better range than the mini electorate, which I probably see as its direct competitor when the electric mini is launched as a puny thirty-two.

Point something with a kilowatt hour battery, but a supposedly better range in the real world is the Honda. In fact all their competitors can go for more miles of range and some of them are faster in terms of 0 to 60, like the Peugeot a 208, I think it's faster 262, but Honda has said yes, but you don't want a car that goes too far because that makes it heavier and this does not even take into account the id3 model available soon from Volkswagen, which will have rear-wheel drive and a rear engine. and with an aggressive price, it's hard to make a decision because it depends on what your priority is, whether it's pure autonomy and nothing more with a good warranty, it's driving characteristics on paper, this car loses to almost everything it's worth. confronts him, but even so I am still longing for one and forgiving him for his weaknesses.

I'm forgiving that boot for being so stupidly small and I'm thinking that the future is already going well. It could probably fit a little bit, you know, ride on it, a little bit well, a little electric scooter or me. Could you remind Honda that they came out with something called the Moto Compo many years ago, which is a beautiful moped with a small, foldable suitcase, and they actually came back and I think in 2011 or 2012 at the Tokyo Motor Show they presented an electric concept of that bicycle? Honda, look, you came out with a car many years ago called the City Jazz in the early 80s and it came with a folding moped that fit in the trunk.

You built another folding electric moped to put in the trunk of my II. This is a car that always has a cult following whether this is a success or not, but I hope this car is a big success for Honda and even if you see someone driving and you look at them and say, you could have bought a car . for the same or less money with better space performance and better range, but you decided against it because you wanted a car that was interesting, when it comes down to it it all comes down to the fact that we have both been looking at this car.

I'm thinking the range just isn't good enough for me the fast charging capability is good the design is beautiful it's strange it has brown seat belts with gray seats no other car could get away with it no other car I really want to have it I think My wife would love to have a car like this. We have cars in our family that have flaws, but we are drawn to them because they have something and this has something. This isn't a car for everyone, but Honda knows that. That, but I hope you enjoyed this video, subscribe and you'll see something.

It is a new material that will appear very soon. Thank God.