Honda desires to change into carbon-neutral by 2050 and payments itself as an organization that dreamed of making a brighter future ever since its inception in 1946. And to indicate the world how a few of its previous merchandise, in addition to its future ones, have been developed with the surroundings in thoughts, it launched a brand new promo video known as “Maintain Dreaming.”
Within the 60-second-long manufacturing, Honda reveals glimpses of the gas-powered Civic CVCC from the Seventies, the first-generation Perception hybrid, in addition to the first-gen Readability, which was powered by a hydrogen gas cell together with an electrical motor. In different phrases, fashions from the model’s historical past that made their names identified for being fuel-efficient and environmentally pleasant.
The Prologue, Honda’s first-ever mass-produced EV, additionally will get a number of seconds beneath the spotlights, adopted by an all-electric EVTOL idea and the model’s Dreamo endeavor, which goals to seize carbon dioxide from the ambiance and switch it into carbon-neutral gas with the assistance of algae.
But it surely’s at this level the place issues get a bit attention-grabbing, as a result of the narrator – who sounds rather a lot like wrestler slash actor John Cena (that is unconfirmed, although) – says that the Japanese marque will sometime be able to turning “your previous Honda into your brand-new Honda,” all whereas the video reveals an electrical sedan stripped of its bodywork after which changed with new elements that rework it into one other car that appears like a crossover.
The angular sedan appears to be closely impressed by the e:N2 idea proven final yr that’s slated to change into a China-only EV based mostly on Honda’s e:N Structure F, the corporate’s first devoted platform for all-electric automobiles.
The blue SUV that follows within the video is much like the upcoming Prologue, however judging from what the corporate stated up to now, it might find yourself being one of many 10 EVs deliberate by Honda for the Chinese language market over the subsequent 4 years, seeing how there’s a mirrored emblem of the e:N structure on the automobile’s entrance proper door that appears equivalent to that discovered on the e:N2 idea. Alternatively, it might be one of many 30 new EVs deliberate to go on sale throughout the globe by 2030.
As a reminder, the Honda Prologue that’s slated to reach at dealerships in the US subsequent yr relies on the Normal Motors Ultium platform, the identical that’s used for the Chevrolet Blazer EV.