HondaAustralia has confirmed its first electrical automobile (EV), the cutesy new Tremendous-One revealed at this week’s Tokyo Mobility Present in Japan.
Measuring lower than 3.6m lengthy and 1.6m large, the 2026 Honda Tremendous-One will arrive in native showrooms through the second half of 2026, after the Japanese model’s native arm completes “an area testing program”.
“Honda Tremendous-One will launch with the good thing about native and worldwide testing below its belt, making certain its composed experience and dealing with, charging answer, and automobile security methods carry out optimally in congested Australian CBDs,” the corporate says in its media launch.
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The Tremendous-One Prototype is the near-production model of the camouflaged Tremendous EV idea seen at this 12 months’s Goodwood Pageant of Pace.
It takes the torch from the now-defunct Honda e, pitched as an A-segment (micro/gentle) electrical hatchback set to rival the likes of the World Atto 1, Fiat 500eand Hyundai Inster in Australia.
Whereas particulars are slim, the Honda Tremendous-One will supply a Enhance Mode the place, “when the motive force steps down on the accelerator, the facility output surges immediately, and similar to in a standard engine-powered automobile, engine sound fills the cabin in sync with the sensation of the gears shifting” – sure, that’s from the official Australian media launch.

Honda provides that “compatibility to a spread of EV charging options has additionally been an integral a part of the (testing) program” in Japan, little doubt indicating the Tremendous-One ought to supply AC and DC charging choices, and probably be appropriate with related charging infrastructure.
The Tremendous-One Prototype is claimed to be all about driving enjoyable, and the outside has a sporty look to match. It’s tall and boxy like most kei automobiles, but it surely has a large stance and beefy fender flares, in addition to dark-finish alloy wheels behind which sit purple brake calipers. Purposeful entrance and rear air ducts additionally assist aero efficiency and cooling.
Inside, there’s eye-catching white, black and blue upholstery on the chunky entrance sports activities seats. The “horizontal orientation” of the dashboard, which additionally options blue accents, is claimed to “cut back visible noise” and opens up the motive force’s discipline of view “to focus extra on driving”.

The Tremendous-One is principally a bigger and extra highly effective model of the brand new Honda N-One e: – the brand new all-electric model of the Japanese model’s top-selling kei automotive.
Kei automobiles are a tiny class of automobiles standard within the Japanese market as a consequence of their inexpensive costs and working prices, and so they all should match inside a footprint of three.4m lengthy, 1.48m large and a couple of.0m tall. Combustion-powered automobiles should have an engine with a displacement no larger than 660cc.
Whereas kei-class automobiles aren’t a factor in Australia – a minimum of if you happen to don’t account for gray imports – we now have acquired varied fashions over time which have been provided as kei automobiles in Japan. These embrace the Suzuki JimnyWagon R and Alto, and the Daihatsu Transfer.

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