- Honda 0 SUV arrives first in North America in early 2026
- Honda 0 Saloon arrives within the later half of the 12 months, seemingly 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 observe. Honda referred to 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 Common Motors within the EV area has lengthy begun, regardless that the Honda Prologue has been a shock hit. Inbuilt partnership with GM and utilizing GM’s previously identified Ultium propulsion system, the Prologue outsold each the associated Chevy Blazer EV and the cheaper Equinox EV, thanks partially to aggressive leasing offers. The Prologue and Blazer EV have totally different personalities primarily based on our head-to-head testing. The Prologue completed with about 33,000 items 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 manner 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 supplies the EV platform and propulsion applied sciences used within the 0 Collection fashions to Afeela.
Different particulars reminiscent of 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 manner. 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 ultimately 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 a lot to be enthusiastic about.
Honda 0 SUV prototype
Honda 0 SUV appears able to roll
The electrical crossover appears extra production-ready and extra shopper pleasant than the Area-Hub van idea that debuted final 12 months. From the B-pillars ahead, it appears extra upright than the Prologue but curved for aero and dappled with a futuristic gentle 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 solution to a compact greenhouse with a windshield that arcs right into a glass roof. It will be distinctive however not stunning on roadways now.
Apart 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 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 facet mirror digital camera projections used as a substitute of precise facet mirrors. These facet 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 probabilities of what a Honda might be. With its kammback rear and its wedge-like nostril that evokes supercars of the Eighties, the Saloon prototype appears 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 might be lined 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 beneath 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 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 function of the low slung Saloon. When getting in or out, the yoke steering wheel robotically 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 items for superior driver-assist techniques and automobile infotainment techniques, 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 shall 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 can 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 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 could possibly 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 Stage 3 system on roads within the U.S., and it is restricted to Nevada and California.
Honda additionally introduced future plans to associate 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 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. For the reason that 0 Collection fashions can have native NACS ports, Honda expects 0 Collection house owners to have entry to 100,000 public charging stations by 2030 as effectively. A custom-made charging service constructed utilizing Amazon Internet Providers can be beneath growth.