Tokyo Show 2009 Highlights: Honda EV-N Concept

If the current crop of electric vehicles just look too futuristic to you, Honda has a cure for what ails you. It’s the retro-styled EV-N electric vehicle concept that looks something like an updated Trabant.

Not much is known about the tiny EV-N, but it’s expected to be a battery-powered city vehicle with a limited range and top speed due to the lack of space for a large battery pack. Cool features including some kind of lighted “communications system” embedded in the front fascia, swappable seat fabrics, solar panels in the roof and a UX-3 self-balancing electric unicycle strapped into the driver’s door for extra-vehicular excursions.

The EV-N is part of Honda’s HELLO! Zone which will feature electric vehicles and solutions for generating green electricity, as Honda rightly points out that switching to zero-emissions vehicles won’t matter much if polluting power plants have to work overtime to charge them. Given its tiny stature and lack of stats, it’s not likely the EV-N will see the road any time soon and if it does, it will likely stay in Japan in the Kei Car segment.

Thanks to: Motor Trend