Honda Malaysia says it obtained 200 bookings for the all-electric Honda E: N1 earlier than the EV was formally launched in Malaysia yesterday, priced at RM149,900 on-the-road with out insurance coverage. The corporate added that it expects to have the ability to clear its whole inventory of the B-segment SUV by the top of the yr, earlier than the import obligation and excise obligation exemptions for CBU EVs ends on December 31, 2025.
“We’re assured that we will promote all of the models allotted for the yr,” mentioned Honda Malaysia gross sales enterprise unit VP Sunita Prabhakaran. Whereas the corporate didn’t reveal what number of models of the EV it hopes to shift, it did say that the e:N1 will probably be out there solely in a restricted amount, with the pricing for the automobile being on a first-come, first-served foundation.
This means that shares could possibly be someplace of the area of 500 models or much less, which might make it doable for gross sales to be accomplished for the EV by yr finish, given the variety of orders obtained for it to this point. By the way, the primary deliveries of the automobile are anticipated to start in June.
The e:N1 is the primary fully-electric car to be offered by HM. Constructed on the automaker’s e:N Structure F, with a HR-V pores and skin, the EV utilises a single entrance motor producing 204 PS (150 kW) and 310 Nm of torque from 0-4,621 rpm. Efficiency figures embody a zero to 100 km/h time of seven.7 seconds and a 160 km/h high velocity.
A 96-cell 68.8 kWh nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery offers the automobile with a WLTP-rated vary of 412 km on a single cost. The e:N1 helps DC CCS2 charging at as much as 78 kW, the place it takes round 45 minutes for the battery to be introduced from a ten% to 80% state-of-charge. With AC, it’ll take the automobile’s 10 kW OBC arround six hours to fully fill the battery.
Out there solely from eight dealerships throughout the Peninsularthe e:N1’s battery and whole EV drive system is roofed by an eight-year/160,000 km guarantee.
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