- Honda 0 SUV arrives first in North America in early 2026
- Honda 0 Saloon arrives within the later half of the yr, probably as a distinct segment flagship
- Manufacturing of each fashions begins this yr in Ohio
Honda confirmed off near-production-ready prototypes of the Honda 0 SUV and Honda 0 Saloon on the Client Digital Present (CES) in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Following the Honda 0 ideas launched final yr at CES 2024, Honda confirmed the prototypes will advance to manufacturing in 2026 on the model’s new EV Hub in Ohio.
The crossover is scheduled to go on sale first in North America within the first half of 2026, earlier than being bought globally. The extra futuristic sedan is slated to go on sale late in 2026 in North America, with international gross sales to observe. Honda known as out Europe and Japan particularly as a part of its international markets, with no point out of China.
Honda 0 SUV prototype
Honda’s push to distance itself from Normal Motors within the EV area has lengthy begun, regardless that the Honda Prologue has been a shock hit. In-built partnership with GM and utilizing GM’s previously recognized Ultium propulsion system, the Prologue outsold each the associated Chevy Blazer EV and the inexpensive Equinox EV, thanks partly to aggressive leasing offers. The Prologue and Blazer EV have completely different personalities primarily based on our head-to-head testing. The Prologue completed with about 33,000 items bought on the yr, which was about 43% greater than the Blazer EV.
Retooling of the Marysville Auto Plant, the place the Honda Accord, Acura TLX, and Acura Integra are made, and retooling of the East Liberty plant the place the Civic, CR-V, and Acura RDX and MDX are made, started late in 2024 to make approach for the 2 0 Collection fashions on the vanguard of Honda’s battery electrical automobile plans.
Honda 0 Saloon prototype
In questions from the press, American Honda dodged any relationship with Afeela, the electrical automobile startup made in partnership with Sony and Honda. Its first sedan is because of debut in 2026, and will probably be produced out of the Ohio EV Hub. Honda gives the EV platform and propulsion applied sciences used within the 0 Collection fashions to Afeela.
Different particulars similar to dimensions, motor items, battery pack sizes, and different specs for the Honda 0 SUV and Honda 0 Saloon stay skinny. A steer-by-wire system guarantees to unify different digital management items for the suspension and brakes to optimize dealing with within the Honda approach. The Prologue’s dealing with was one of many issues we famous as superior to the Blazer EV.
Honda 0 Collection platform prototype (Accord)
A temporary Honda 0 Collection prototype check drive in Japan final October showcased a skinny, low battery pack, smaller e-axles than utilized in most different EVs, an air suspension, and an extended wheelbase with just about no overhangs. Beforehand, Honda stated the 0 Collection will finally have light-weight, energy-dense battery packs that may cost from 15%-80% in simply 10-Quarter-hour, and can lose not more than 10% of their authentic capability and vary after 10 years of use. Moreover, Honda targets a 300-mile vary for 0 Collection fashions.
Nonetheless, specifics weren’t shared for the prototypes proven at CES 2025. However, in a walkaround of the 2 automobiles, the prototypes offered lots to be enthusiastic about.
Honda 0 SUV prototype
Honda 0 SUV appears able to roll
The electrical crossover appears extra production-ready and extra client pleasant than the House-Hub van idea that debuted final yr. From the B-pillars ahead, it appears extra upright than the Prologue but curved for aero and dappled with a futuristic gentle signature. Working lights stacked like ice dice trays stretch the vertical face, which has a shelf separating the decrease grille and splitter. Rounded wheel arches and excessive physique sides give technique to a compact greenhouse with a windshield that arcs right into a glass roof. It will be distinctive however not stunning on roadways now.
Aside from the garlic-bulb rear finish. From the C-pillars again it may go for a cargo van in optimizing cargo area. The roof barely arcs earlier than dropping off the vertical tailgate. The identical Honda lettering from the Prologue stamps the large again finish of the Honda 0 SUV, and a U-shaped taillight rings the again. A shelf again right here separates the gate from the decrease bumper and taillights. The gate reveals a boxy cargo space with higher cabinets hidden within the rear quarters. It embraces Honda’s “Skinny, Mild, and Sensible” design philosophy, and the spacious cabin follows swimsuit, with a 6-foot-4 gentleman becoming in each the back and front seats with sufficient headroom and legroom.
It stays to be seen if the sprint’s wall of screens will go into manufacturing however we doubt it, for the reason that outer flanks of the screens are the aspect mirror digital camera projections used as a substitute of precise aspect mirrors. These aspect cameras stay unlawful within the U.S. The prototype additionally has a yoke steering wheel, and a large open ground plan we hope will make it to manufacturing. There aren’t any seen management buttons or dials.
Honda 0 Saloon prototype
Honda 0 Saloon stretches the idea of Honda
Throughout the ground, the Honda 0 Saloon sedan expands the chances of what a Honda will be. With its kammback rear and its wedge-like nostril that evokes supercars of the Eighties, the Saloon prototype appears strikingly much like the idea. Built-in headlights lurk low within the wedge over a sharp, light-ringed splitter. The slim headlights sit flush in its angular nostril, and will be coated with energy doorways when not in use, additionally harking back to the ’70s and ’80s. Large 23- or 24-inch wheels with aero covers lurk within the wheel wells with just about no hole, and the entrance axle sits below the place the cowl begins. That is one slender dash-to-axle ratio.
Just like the 0 SUV, the complete glass roof stretches lengthy and flat towards the rear, which kicks up like a fats whale’s tail. It is unclear the way it opens from the rear, as there’s a concentric ring of 3D lights the place any rear window or hatch glass would usually be. It appears like no Honda ever, and this 0 Collection flagship ought to be projected to be the extra area of interest providing versus the extra populist 0 SUV.
Honda demonstrated the ingress characteristic of the low slung Saloon. When getting in or out, the yoke steering wheel mechanically turns the other way up with out turning the wheels. The driving force’s seat slides again so you will get in or out with out hitting your thighs on the underside of the yoke.
Honda 0 SUV prototype
Honda 0 Collection Asimo Working System
The Asimo Working System designed and constructed by Honda will handle the digital management items for superior driver-assist methods and automobile infotainment methods, and with over-the-air updates it guarantees to customise the automobile possession expertise all through its lifetime. The OS takes its identify from the humanoid robotic Honda launched to the world in 2000, and Asimo might be utilized in all 0 Collection fashions.
Honda 0 SUV prototype
Honda debuts Degree 3 hands-free driving on 0 Collection
Honda additionally claims it’s going to debut its Degree 3 autonomous driving system within the two 0 Collection fashions, however Honda reps acknowledged that regulatory hurdles stay within the U.S. The system allows eyes-off and hands-off driving, so operators may journey lengthy distances on restricted roadways, however they must be engaged within the screens by streaming a film or something aside from napping so that they might be shortly triggered to take over driving if the system disengages. Honda has been utilizing the system on roadways in Japan, however the patchwork of state legal guidelines within the U.S. make it a problem right here. Mercedes-Benz is the one automaker with a Degree 3 system on roads within the U.S., and it is restricted to Nevada and California.
Honda additionally introduced future plans to companion with Renesas Electronics Company to make a high-performance processing chip that may let Honda make use of a single core digital management unit that encompasses all different management items.
Honda additionally touted its nascent Ionna charging community being developed with seven different automakers to deploy dependable high-speed quick charging at 30,000 stations throughout North America by 2030. Because the 0 Collection fashions could have native NACS ports, Honda expects 0 Collection house owners to have entry to 100,000 public charging stations by 2030 as nicely. A personalized charging service constructed utilizing Amazon Internet Companies can also be below growth.
