{"id":18628,"date":"2022-03-28T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18628"},"modified":"2022-03-28T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:04:00","slug":"honda-electric-hybrid-crossover-suv-europe-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18628","title":{"rendered":"Honda launching new EV, hybrid crossovers in Europe next year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, CarBuzz<\/em> dug up<\/a> nine Honda<\/a> patent applications with the European Union Intellectual Property Office that could signal a westward expansion of the automaker’s aims. Honda’s been showing conceptual electric vehicles<\/a> in China<\/a> over the last 18 months. At Auto Beijing in 2020 we saw the E:Concept<\/a> two-door crossover<\/a>. Come the Shanghai Auto Show<\/a> in April 2021, the E had been shrunk to e for a redesigned, four-door electric crossover called the e:Prototype<\/a>. Then at Auto Beijing in October 2021, Honda showed five EV concepts<\/a> for the Chinese market to be sold under a regional sub-brand called e:N; of those five, the first production models were to be called e:NS1 and e:NP1, both looking like remade versions of the HR-V<\/a>. That’s the long way of setting the table for the EUIPO filings\u2014it’s expected the nine electric vehicle name applications from e:Ny2 to e:Ny9 would potentially become production EVs for Europe. The range of models on the way will sit on a trio of platforms devoted to front-, rear- and all-wheel-drive vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Honda didn’t include e:Ny1 in the patent applications, which started with e:Ny2. Perhaps the first number was saved for conceptual use, because a few days later, Honda showed Europe an e:Ny1 prototype. Car<\/em> magazine says<\/a> it is pronounced “Anyone.” It looks like the HR-V that Honda sells in Europe and Japan<\/a> now, which itself looks like the e:Prototype Honda revealed in Shanghai last April. Honda Europe execs said it presages a B-segment electric crossover that will “be at the center of Honda\u2019s future product line-up” there, targeting “families looking for their first EV.” That puts it about the size of the Honda Jazz\/Fit<\/a> on which the Euro HR-V is based. The crossover model is expected in 2023, sitting on a stretched version of the Honda e architecture to carry a bigger battery<\/a> enabling a longer range than the 137 miles possible in the Honda e, as well as “greater space, versatility and, range.” If it cribs from the e:Ns1 and e:NP1 in China, the European EV will fit a 68.8-kWh battery. In China, that pack is good for a 311-mile range.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Next year also sees the market launch of a hybrid<\/a>, C-segment crossover that will be about the size of the current CR-V<\/a>. It fills the space that will be abandoned by the new-generation CR-V<\/a>, which will grow and offer hybrid and PHEV powertrains.<\/p>\n

We’ve read that the e represents Honda’s eTechnology, the N stands for new or next. As for platforms, we know the front-driver is called the e:N Architecture F. All the electrified debuts slated for 2023, following new hybrid offerings like the European Civic Hybrid<\/a>, will “set the course for the next generation of electrified Honda cars<\/a>,” according to Honda.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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