All things considered this isn’t a great first showing but given how badly Japanese vendors have managed to fumble EV rollout so far it could have been a lot worse. It seems like a perfectly serviceable platform to build on at least but my god at that price tag and especially without a heat pump option I don’t see this moving many units. As it stands, in NA it would be a very hard sell compared to a Bolt EUV and the competition is going to be much stiffer in Europe.

I do wonder what Honda’s plans are here. Are they pushing this out to market just to get some form of return on tooling costs even if they only move a couple thousands while they work on a second gen vehicle?

Side note, I’m kind of amazed vendors are still shipping review samples out with low-resistance tires, especially in this case given this platform does not seem calibrated for them given the reported traction issues.