Honda has unveiled its two new electric concepts at EICMA 2024, the EV Fun Concept and the EV Urban Concept. With them, the Japanese brand Honda aims to achieve carbon neutrality in all its products and corporate activities by 2050, and to achieve carbon neutrality in all its motorcycle products by the 2040s.
With this objective, Honda is working to electrify its motorcycles as a pillar of its future environmental strategy. Honda has positioned 2024 as the first year for the global launch of its electric motorcycles and has begun large-scale entry into the electric motorcycle market, positioning the time until 2026 as a market entry period, and beyond 2026 as a period of business expansion.
Two new electric concepts under the same philosophy
The new EV Fun Concept is an electric motorcycle designed for fun use and was mentioned at the briefing on Honda Electric Motorcycle Business held on November 29, 2023. It is a sports naked model equivalent to a medium-sized internal combustion engine (ICE) motorcycle.
Equipped with a fixed battery, it is Honda’s first electric sports model and is scheduled to go on sale in 2025. The EV Urban Concept is an electric model that embodies Honda’s vision of urban electric mobility with its function-focused design, connected technologies and internally developed battery.
With the addition of the new sporty EV Fun Concept and the EV Urban Concept, Honda is making solid progress toward its plan to introduce 30 electric models worldwide by 2030.
Honda EV Fun Concept
The EV Fun Concept is Honda’s first electric sports model and is being developed as a next-generation electric motorcycle that offers a new riding sensation. In addition to the high level of «driving, turning and braking» created by the brand’s long-developed motorcycle technologies, the new silent and vibration-free ride that is only possible with electric power.
What stands out is the compact chassis where its fixed battery is also integrated. The EV Fun Concept’s system and charging have been developed by applying Honda’s knowledge and technologies cultivated in its automobiles and electric products.
The battery is compatible with the CCS2 fast charger (the same standard as automobiles) and has been developed to optimize the balance between light weight and fast charging performance, as well as to provide a cruising range of more than 100 kmsufficient for urban use.
Honda EV Urban Concept
The EV Urban Concept rebuilds Honda’s vision of what urban electric mobility should be from the ground up. It embodies a vision of near-future mobility that cooperates and resonates with people and society through its essential and sophisticated style, intuitive human-machine interface (HMI) and new experiences created by the fusion of software and hardware.
Honda’s objective with these electric concepts is to open the freedom of mobility to the largest possible number of customers and expand the mobility possibilities for each and every one of them.
