To all those who like the new generation of EV, and especially the new Honda EM1 e:are in luck. The brand is looking to recruit 500 testers to test their electric scooter, although one of the conditions is reside in Tokyo City. So on that note, we assume there won’t be many of our readers who can take part in this ingenious initiative.
According to the Japanese firm’s own website, it will be until August 18th the period of time that will be used to select the participants of this mobility experiment. From that moment on, each and every one of those chosen will receive a Honda EM1 e:, as well as a charger and a rear box to use throughout the test.
Honda EM1 e: 60 days riding through Tokyo
The 500 participants who ultimately take part in this initiative will be able to use the Honda EM1 e: for 60 days from the date it is delivered to them at one of the official participating dealers. Undoubtedly, all of them must accept the rules and conditions that encompass this promotion.
For example, having a safe place to store and load the Honda EM1 e:respect the traffic regulations established in the country, or cooperate with the questionnaire once the monitoring is completed. Because the purpose of this test is to monitor, at all times, the general operation of the Honda EM1 e: in the different conditions of use that any of the 500 users end up carrying out.
Let us remember that the Honda EM1 e: is the first electric model of that ten announced by the brand for the next few years. It is powered by the Honda Mobile Power Pack e: and its electric motor, located in the wheel, offers a range of 41.3 km and a maximum speed of 45 km/h.
This is not the first time that Honda has come up with such a campaign. The brand did the same with the first car it sold in the US, the N600 Series 1. As detailed in the article published on Haggerty’s official website: “In 1967, Honda built 50 prototypes of the N600, fitting a larger, newer 600cc engine into the N360 Kei, and shipped them to the United States to see if American consumers, accustomed to driving large, powerful cars, would accept a tiny (10-foot-long) car.”
And continues: “Those 50 N600s were used exclusively for test data collection by the factory staff, and one of the things they learned was to reduce power to 36 bhp for the American models in order to keep the engine intact. Soon, the N600 and Z600 went into full production. By the time American Honda stopped importing the 600cc models in 1972 after the first-generation Civic went into production, it had sold about 60,000 of them.”
