- Honda 0 SUV arrives first in North America in early 2026
- Honda 0 Saloon arrives within the later half of the 12 months, doubtless as a distinct segment flagship
- Manufacturing of each fashions begins this 12 months 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 12 months 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 offered globally. The extra futuristic sedan is slated to go on sale late in 2026 in North America, with world gross sales to comply with. Honda known as out Europe and Japan particularly as a part of its world markets, with no point out of China.
Honda 0 SUV prototype
Honda’s push to distance itself from Normal Motors within the EV house has lengthy begun, though 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 cheaper Equinox EV, thanks partly to aggressive leasing offers. The Prologue and Blazer EV have completely different personalities based mostly on our head-to-head testing. The Prologue completed with about 33,000 models offered on the 12 months, 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 means for the 2 0 Collection fashions on the vanguard of Honda’s battery electrical car plans.
Honda 0 Saloon prototype
In questions from the press, American Honda dodged any relationship with Afeela, the electrical car 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 reminiscent of dimensions, motor models, 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 models for the suspension and brakes to optimize dealing with within the Honda means. 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 take a look at drive in Japan final October showcased a skinny, low battery pack, smaller e-axles than utilized in most different EVs, an air suspension, and a protracted wheelbase with nearly 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 supplied lots to be enthusiastic about.
Honda 0 SUV prototype
Honda 0 SUV seems to be able to roll
The electrical crossover seems to be extra production-ready and extra shopper pleasant than the House-Hub van idea that debuted final 12 months. From the B-pillars ahead, it seems to be extra upright than the Prologue but curved for aero and dappled with a futuristic mild signature. Operating 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 strategy 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 cross for a cargo van in optimizing cargo house. The roof barely arcs earlier than dropping off the vertical tailgate. The identical Honda lettering from the Prologue stamps the massive 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 Smart” design philosophy, and the spacious cabin follows go well with, 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 digicam projections used as an alternative 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 flooring plan we hope will make it to manufacturing. There are not 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 probabilities of what a Honda may be. With its kammback rear and its wedge-like nostril that evokes supercars of the Nineteen Eighties, the Saloon prototype seems to be strikingly just 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 may be coated with energy doorways when not in use, additionally harking back to the ’70s and ’80s. Huge 23- or 24-inch wheels with aero covers lurk within the wheel wells with nearly 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 total 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 seems to be like no Honda ever, and this 0 Collection flagship must 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 routinely turns the wrong way up with out turning the wheels. The driving force’s seat slides again so you may 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 models for superior driver-assist programs and car infotainment programs, and with over-the-air updates it guarantees to customise the car possession expertise all through its lifetime. The OS takes its title 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 Stage 3 hands-free driving on 0 Collection
Honda additionally claims it should debut its Stage 3 autonomous driving system within the two 0 Collection fashions, however Honda reps acknowledged that regulatory hurdles stay within the U.S. The system permits 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 apart from napping so that they may very well be rapidly 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 Stage 3 system on roads within the U.S., and it is restricted to Nevada and California.
Honda additionally introduced future plans to accomplice with Renesas Electronics Company to make a high-performance processing chip that can let Honda make use of a single core digital management unit that encompasses all different management models.
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 homeowners to have entry to 100,000 public charging stations by 2030 as effectively. A personalized charging service constructed utilizing Amazon Net Providers can also be below growth.