, a family, five-door SUV, at 4.41m long - just under 6cm longer than the hybrid engined HR-V . It's built in Wuhan, China, in a 50:50 joint venture with Chinese car maker, Dongfeng. In fact, the e:Ny1 has already been on sale in China for the last year, badged as the Honda Dongfeng e:NS1. Both cars are built on the Honda developed e: N Architecture F platform, which is primarily front-wheel drive, although in the launch presentation slides, they accidentally showed a 4x4 version of the car that will probably happen at some point. The battery pack is a pretty standard lithium-ion pack that uses nickel, manganese and cobalt (NMC) chemistry, weighs 318kg and provides a total capacity of 68.8kWh - 61.9kWh of which is actually in use. The DC permanent-magnet motor, developed in conjunction with Continental, delivers 201bhp and 229lb ft of torque to the front wheels via a single-speed 3:1 step-down transmission. A standard 7kW home charger will deliver a full charge in under 10 hours, or the 11kW on-board charger will give a 10 – 80 per cent top-up in 6 hours if you have access to a powerful enough AC charging station. Fast charging is up to 78kW, which gives a 10 to 80 per cent charge in 45 minutes. The WLTP range is quoted at 256 miles WLTP, or we saw 3.51m/kWh during our test drive, which would give an overall range of about 217 miles. Prices will start at £44,995 for the base (though well-equipped) Elegance model, running up to £47,195 for the plusher Advance model, which will o){kind=link}
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It’s been four years since Honda unveiled the Honda e; the car it didn’t want to build, and which was priced so high and had such a short range, that – though owners love them – not many have been sold. ”
If the e was the start of things, it’s been a measure of the innate conservatism of Honda that only now is it trying to tempt us into the larger, longer-legged electric vehicle, about the same size as its compact hybrid SUV, the HR-V.
So welcome to the e:Ny1 (Anyone? Geddit?), a family, five-door SUV, at 4.41m long – just under 6cm longer than the hybrid engined HR-V. It’s built in Wuhan, China, in a 50:50 joint venture with Chinese car maker, Dongfeng. In fact, the e:Ny1 has already been on sale in China for the last year, badged as the Honda Dongfeng e:NS1.
Both cars are built on the Honda developed e: N Architecture F platform, which is primarily front-wheel drive, although in the launch presentation slides, they accidentally showed a 4×4 version of the car that will probably happen at some point.