Hondas you can lust after are back. Allow us to introduce the wonderfully wedgy ‘0 Series’
EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT
Hold the phone – Honda’s only gone and revealed two electric concepts you’ll actually want to buy, and it says we can get our hands on one within the next two years.
Amid all the talking fridges and drone-based coffee deliveries at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas were the Saloon and Space-Hub concepts, sitting under the company’s new ‘0 Series’ umbrella that will cover its future electric vehicles. Zero apparently means it’s back to the drawing board for Honda, but also marks its ambition to get to zero environmental impact and zero accident fatalities. All sounds lovely – but doesn’t that Saloon give off Countach vibes?
So is the 0 Series a sub-brand? Corporate PowerPoint padding? Who knows – but we’ll go from zero to one in 2026, with a production version of the Saloon (it’s not even a saloon, what’s going on there?) on sale first in North America, then Japan and the rest of the world. Honda has confirmed it’s working on an electric sports car, new SUVs and a smaller electric car as part of its 0 Series, but we won’t see those until nearer the end of the decade.
The company did also reveal that its next-gen EVs are being developed with a new approach that sounds like it’s channelling Gandalf off Lord of the Rings – the 0 Series cars will be “thin, light and wise” says Honda. Finally, electrification that doesn’t involve pumping out 2.5-tonne SUVs.
The batteries can’t get much lighter, though Honda says it’s working on fancy new tech to pack more electricity into the same space, so the Saloon concept focuses on cutting down weight and using exotic materials to keep things light, as well as improving efficiency by making the cars as aerodynamic as possible.
How much of the wedgy four-seater Saloon and its giant gullwing doors will make production is a
