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Honda has confirmed it’ll quickly reveal a brand new electrical SUV to affix its 0 Collection electrical car (EV) sub-brand, which the native arm of the Japanese automaker informed CarExpert earlier this yr might come to Australian showrooms.
Together with asserting it’ll unveil a brand new “inexpensive” electrical SUV on the 2025 Japan Mobility Present, which opens to the general public on October 30, 2025, Honda launched a single teaser picture exhibiting a novel roofline and what appeard to be smaller total proportions than the 0 Collection SUV it pulled the covers off earlier this yr.
The 0 Collection of devoted EVs was first proven on the Shopper Electronics Present in Las Vegas in January 2025 with a pair of ideas – a big SUV and a sedan.
Whereas Toyota has copped criticism for less than providing a single EV in Australia, Honda – which beat its Japanese rival to the punch right here with the primary hybrid, the Honda Perception, again in 2001 – is but to supply an EV.
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Honda Australia informed media earlier this yr that it’ll launch its first battery-powered mannequin right here in 2026 – and that it needs the 0 Collection fashions for native showrooms. When requested by CarExpert which fashions it’s in search of to launch, managing director Rob Thorp stated: “All of them”.
In confirming its first EV in 2026 – alongside a brand new, hybrid-powered Prelude sports activities automobile – Honda Australia didn’t affirm if an 0 Collection mannequin will probably be its first electrical mannequin to grace native showrooms, or whether or not it will be adopted by different EVs from its world lineup.
This will likely embrace the eNy1 electrical SUV, which is predicated on the HR-V small SUV and offered within the UK in right-hand drive, making it a main candidate.
Whether or not they’re the primary or among the many first Honda EVs offered right here, the 0 Collection fashions may very well be the primary automobiles in Honda Australia showrooms to be made in China.
The Tokyo present will even see Honda show a closer-to-production prototype model of the Tremendous EV Idea metropolis automobile, which has similarities in dimension to the Hyundai Inster and Fiat 500e city electrical hatchbacks, and was revealed on the 2025 Goodwood Pageant of Velocity in July.
Australia missed out on the earlier Honda e city EV, offered between 2020 and 2024, which featured retro styling in a homage to the unique 1972 Civic hatch.
Globally, Honda has pulled again on its funding in electrical automobiles, slashing its ¥10 trillion (A$105 billion) EV funds by one-third earlier this yr and abandoning its earlier aim of EVs accounting for 30 per cent of its gross sales by 2030.
As an alternative, Honda has switched its focus to hybrid automobiles, which its Australian division expects to account for 90 per cent of its gross sales as quickly as mid-2026.
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