Have any of you owned an EV with a similar range to the Honda E and found range anxiety to be a problem? This would be my only car. I would use it to commute around 40km round-trip, and we don’t often drive more than two hours in a day on the weekends.
I’m considering getting my first EV, but as a car enthusiast, I can only bring myself to be emotionally interested in the Honda E and the Porsche Taycan. I can’t afford the Taycan, so it’s really down to deciding between the E or something that’s just an appliance (likely a BMW i3 or a Peugeot e208). I like the Ioniq5 and EV6, but I’d prefer to wait until used prices drop on those.
I wouldn’t view the i3 as just an appliance - it’s’ a very interesting little car. Carbon reinforced plastic tub, which you can see when you open the door, one of the best interiors of any car ever and the lightest mainstream EV (and BMW in the last 10 years). It’s like BMW’s engineers were given free rein to make an EV and did a proper job - in fact it feels like the last BMW driven more by engineers than marketing or finance.
If any mass produced EV is going to be come a classic it’ll be the i3. I’ve always thought it’s a bit of a look at the future we aren’t going to have - when a proper manufacturer threw money and effort in making the cars we actually need; smaller, lighter and more space efficient.
Alas, instead BMW threw their head start away and have made a bunch of heavy, lazy ICE conversions. Because we don’t deserve nice things, it turns out.
The Honda is a fine little car. Looks great, it’s fun and all those things. But I personally I would say its not as fun or interesting as the BMW.
the Honda E is one of the slowest, most underpowered, most boring, most over-priced and all-round horrendous EVs ever made (check out the horrendous reviews: i see 2 stars from What Car; 2.5 stars from Parkers), so i’m not sure how you’ve made the leap to it being an “enthusiast”-type choice. it truly isn’t.