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Honda Australia has confirmed its first electrical car (EV), the cutesy new Tremendous-One revealed at this week’s Tokyo Mobility Present in Japan.
Measuring lower than 3.6m lengthy and 1.6m extensive, the 2026 Honda Tremendous-One will arrive in native showrooms in the course of the second half of 2026, after the Japanese model’s native arm completes “a neighborhood testing program”.
“Honda Tremendous-One will launch with the advantage of native and worldwide testing below its belt, making certain its composed trip and dealing with, charging answer, and car security programs carry out optimally in congested Australian CBDs,” the corporate says in its media launch.
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The Tremendous-One Prototype is the near-production model of the camouflaged Tremendous EV idea seen at this 12 months’s Goodwood Pageant of Velocity.
It takes the torch from the now-defunct Honda e, pitched as an A-segment (micro/gentle) electrical hatchback set to rival the likes of the BYD Atto 1, Fiat 500e, and Hyundai Inster in Australia.
Whereas particulars are slim, the Honda Tremendous-One will supply a Enhance Mode the place, “when the motive force steps down on the accelerator, the facility output surges immediately, and identical to in a traditional engine-powered car, engine sound fills the cabin in sync with the sensation of the gears shifting” – sure, that’s from the official Australian media launch.
Honda provides that “compatibility to a variety of EV charging options has additionally been an integral a part of the [testing] program” in Japan, little doubt indicating the Tremendous-One ought to supply AC and DC charging choices, and doubtlessly be appropriate with linked charging infrastructure.
The Tremendous-One Prototype is claimed to be all about driving enjoyable, and the outside has a sporty look to match. It’s tall and boxy like most kei automobiles, nevertheless it has a large stance and beefy fender flares, in addition to dark-finish alloy wheels behind which sit crimson brake calipers. Useful entrance and rear air ducts additionally assist aero efficiency and cooling.
Inside, there’s eye-catching white, black and blue upholstery on the chunky entrance sports activities seats. The “horizontal orientation” of the dashboard, which additionally options blue accents, is claimed to “scale back visible noise” and opens up the motive force’s discipline of view “to focus extra on driving”.
The Tremendous-One is principally a bigger and extra highly effective model of the brand new Honda N-One e: – the brand new all-electric model of the Japanese model’s top-selling kei automotive.
Kei automobiles are a tiny class of autos fashionable within the Japanese market as a consequence of their inexpensive costs and working prices, they usually all should match inside a footprint of three.4m lengthy, 1.48m extensive and a couple of.0m tall. Combustion-powered autos will need to have an engine with a displacement no larger than 660cc.
Whereas kei-class automobiles aren’t a factor in Australia – at the very least if you happen to don’t account for gray imports – we now have acquired varied fashions over time which have been provided as kei automobiles in Japan. These embody the Suzuki Jimny, Wagon R and Alto, and the Daihatsu Transfer.
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