Sony Honda Afeela EV prototype revealed...

[rodericb]

... at the Consumer Electronics Show.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42400955/afeela...
https://insideevs.com/news/629518/afeela-sony-hond...
https://www.motortrend.com/news/sony-honda-mobilit...



It's very similar to the concept car revealed a few years ago but with more of a, well, bland style. A bit like the Lucid Air.

[HorneyMX5]

Apart from the wheel I quite like it.

[Chubbyross]

The best I can say about that is it looks like a generic modern transport device.

[NDNDNDND]

That has to be the worst name for a car since Ford announced the Probe.

[Silvanus]

EmailAddress said:

yep, like a generic car used in car insurance ads.

[SWoll]

The comments about bland styling to make me laugh. It looks that way as they are trying to offer the best efficiency and range figures possible due to everyone constantly complaining EV's don't go far enough on a charge. Jelly mould styling is the way forward, just look at the Mercedes EQS.

It's also got a number of Hyundai I5/6 styling similarities, yet people seem to fawn over those?

[DMZ]

I don’t really want to look at the Mercedes EQS if I can avoid it. Let’s go for old school styling and big batteries instead, all is forgiven.

The Ioniq 6 is a god awful looking thing. Maybe it looks similar but I think I have managed to unsee it so not sure.

[Silvanus]

SWoll said:

The comments about bland styling to make me laugh. It looks that way as they are trying to offer the best efficiency and range figures possible due to everyone constantly complaining EV's don't go far enough on a charge. Jelly mould styling is the way forward, just look at the Mercedes EQS.

It's also got a number of Hyundai I5/6 styling similarities, yet people seem to fawn over those?

There are plenty of new and soon to be released EVs that look pretty good/distinctive, this is about as generic and anonymous looking as they come.

[paulrockliffe]

SWoll said:

The comments about bland styling to make me laugh. It looks that way as they are trying to offer the best efficiency and range figures possible due to everyone constantly complaining EV's don't go far enough on a charge. Jelly mould styling is the way forward, just look at the Mercedes EQS.

It's also got a number of Hyundai I5/6 styling similarities, yet people seem to fawn over those?

Think how much further it would go if it wasn't powering all those screens too!

[SWoll]

Silvanus said:

SWoll said:

The comments about bland styling to make me laugh. It looks that way as they are trying to offer the best efficiency and range figures possible due to everyone constantly complaining EV's don't go far enough on a charge. Jelly mould styling is the way forward, just look at the Mercedes EQS.

It's also got a number of Hyundai I5/6 styling similarities, yet people seem to fawn over those?

There are plenty of new and soon to be released EVs that look pretty good/distinctive, this is about as generic and anonymous looking as they come.

And they'll all almost certainly be less efficient than this if a similar size and weight. That's my point, you can have one or the other.

[Silvanus]

SWoll said:

Silvanus said:

SWoll said:

The comments about bland styling to make me laugh. It looks that way as they are trying to offer the best efficiency and range figures possible due to everyone constantly complaining EV's don't go far enough on a charge. Jelly mould styling is the way forward, just look at the Mercedes EQS.

It's also got a number of Hyundai I5/6 styling similarities, yet people seem to fawn over those?

There are plenty of new and soon to be released EVs that look pretty good/distinctive, this is about as generic and anonymous looking as they come.

And they'll all almost certainly be less efficient than this if a similar size and weight. That's my point, you can have one or the other.

Its not one or the other, there are huge variations in between, not either or of the extremes. It could easily be that shape and offer a few unique styling cues. Maybe the buyers of this type of car are not interested, either way it looks utterly anonymous.

[BertBert]

You would have thought that if they were going to pick such a terrible name, they would have picked one where they could get the .com domain name!
Edit: just noticed same with the zeekr!

Edited by BertBert on Thursday 5th January 12:18

[Shabaza]

Presumably theyre just putting out "a feeler" to see interest

I'll get my coat

[TheDeuce]

https://electrek.co/2023/01/04/sony-will-build-and...

Mooted to have 536hp yet somehow takes 4.8 seconds to hit 60

Something not right there. The i4 M50 with the same power output does it in 3.3 seconds..

Hopefully a miscommunication betwixt honda press office and the media. Also hopefully this thing drives really well, honda can put together a very good chassis and steering when they're on form.

[soupdragon1]

Love it

Like a crisp shirt, beautifully tailored. Elegance. Class.

Thumbs up from me.