Honda believes in a power of dreams and as einstein put it
imagination is more powerful than knowledge
Welcome to Tech in the Car in this video i'm going to show you around this this is a honda
e this is honda's first all-electric car inspired by the honda civic in the 1970s
this car has a lot of really cool features it looks like you imagine a car from the future
would look and in this video i'm going to show you around it explain the features show you the
infotainment take you for a drive and generally tell you everything i love about this car
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let's start with talking a bit about the cars this is a honda e advance there's also the standard
honda e the honda e has a 100 kilowatts of power and the honda advance has 113 kilowatts of power
both have a 35.5 kilowatt hour battery which is good for about 125 miles of wltp range it's
slightly more for the advanced value less for the standard and we're going to have a look and see
what that's like in the real world as well honda designed this car as a city car that's what it
is it's a totally new design it doesn't share its features with anything else which honda makes and
it's got a really simple but very focused design it's designed to work in a city and they studied
the traffic and patterns in multiple european cities to figure out what would work best and
it shows size-wise it's about the same length as a honda jazz but it's a lot more spacious inside
with the electric design meaning there's no tunnel running through the middle and there's a lot more
space so we'll have a look at that in a minute this car is unashamedly electric it's got his
charging port right out the front here of course it's waterproof under sort of that and it has
ccs rapid charging you can charge this car to 80 on 150 kilowatt charger in 30 minutes and on a
50 kilowatt charger you can do in 31 minutes not much in it but either way it's pretty fast that's
probably down to battery management software this car if you plug it in at night and charge it
overnight driving around the city because it is a city car will give you more than enough range the
only time where you might want to get that 100 is if you're traveling longer distances where every
mile counts on the outside this car has something which distinctly makes it really really unusual
and that is there are no mirrors these mirrors are actually cameras there's no wing mirrors and that
means that in a narrow city with lots of cars parked you have to worry about somebody coming
along and hitting your wing mirror and taking it off and what's more honda thought about in great
detail not only can you move up and down like a traditional mirror there's also a wide angle
choice so you can see more of what's around you and it's rain repelling so it means even in the
worst weather you're not going to have any issues with the rain and actually having the cameras on
the inside on screens means that you don't have your view obstructed by any dirt on the windows
or anything else which might get in your way especially in night time when it gets darker and
you can't see very clearly plus you get used to it really really quickly and they also show you all
the traditional stuff you would expect like blind spot indicators and there's even lines showing you
the distance to the car behind you so you can see when you're changing lane how close you are
to that car even if you're not used to having a camera instead of a mirror plus like i said before
it looks really cool and just in case you thought these ring mirrors only for show
they also help reduce drag and this car has been really really well designed it's including a fully
glass roof and that means the inside feels incredibly airy and spacious let's talk about
these lights these lights are really cool we've got a circular design very reminiscent of the
1970s honda civic like i've already said and this has got a really clean design this black front
here it looks a bit like a robot like honda's azimo robot and it just looks really distinctive
it also hides a lot of sensors the adapter cruise control is hidden here and there's cameras here
as well we've got the same round lights which are really cool clear and see-through they have
circular leds and then we have the same black bar which you can see on the front of the car again
cameras and sensors and reversing lights all built into this design at the back of the honda e we
have 171 liters this is by no means a big boot but for your city trips going around getting shopping
this is more than enough space in the back here there are hooks like you would expect there to be
including to attach your charging cables to and there is a parcel shelf which is removable
this car has such a distinctive design that you're willing to forgive little things like
not much space in the back when you look at this beautiful futuristic car which honda really taken
the step and a lead in in far as design is concerned and it should win design awards if
it hasn't won any design awards already one of the coolest features of the honda e the pop out door
handles you've got those bulging wheel arches at the front which look amazing and on the advanced
model you have 17 inch alloy wheels in that black design which look particularly attractive
mated with this blue color lots of people think this car is only a two door because they're not
aware of where the door handle is at the back and the back glass is tinted as well so it doesn't
look like there are vectors but there are the handles hidden here in the door you just pull it
open and just like the front it's got a frameless around so what about space in this car there's
tons of space in this car i can feel here the seats are nice and forward there's space because
they're quite thin and there's no center floor so there's lots here and the backer though it's
quite upright it feels really comfortable this car has fantastic padding i would compare this to
the kind of penny you can get on the top of class bmw or audi it feels really really comfortable in
here and very very airy and the frameless windows also look amazing so in case you want to put your
dog in the car this is how much space there is on the back seat and she looks very comfortable there
let's talk about the interior of this fantastic car and it is a fantastic car you got two 12-inch
screens in the middle here which you can have your navigation your battery information you can use
the hdmi to plug in a games console or an ipad or your computer and you can even charge it with the
full 230 volt mains power socket which is amazing and of course i can tap on this and i can move
my apps across the screen and scroll through like it was my smartphone and move everything around
and then if i want to swap sides no problem i just hit the button and swap sites how cool
is that the interior here has a forward design but it feels really nice there's something about this
car's interior where even though it's not a big car it feels very spacious maybe the fact that
this center console is floating helps with that effect but it just feels like there's a lot of
room in here and you don't feel at all cramped the glass roof also helps immensely having a panoramic
roof like this which is glass adds in so much air and light and of course if you don't want that
light you can of course pull the cover across to get rid of it but we prefer it with it open
we have a mirror which is also a screen you can use as a normal mirror and then you can flick
it back to being a screen and then in the middle you have a traditional ac system you can turn the
heating up and down using buttons you don't have to worry about anything fancy although you can use
your voice with the honda assistant up top here you have your buttons you got home button a button
which lets you adjust the brightness of the screen turn the radio on and off and adjust the volume
and then we've got an auto part button which will put it into automatic parking which is really
cool to see as well on the side stalks you have controls to enter the camera so you can see the
360 multi angle camera down here in the middle we have this floating center console which is
very simple it's got a button for park a button for reverse one for neutral and one for drive and
you've got your regen braking button down here as well and then you've got your drive mode between
normal and sport your parking brake which is electronic and your auto hold or your brake hold
as it says on here you've got a really good sound system as well in here i love the interior of this
it just it makes me really really happy to be in this car right let's go for drive
this car is a city car it's a combination of the future and with a retro look of the past
and it's a really fun car to drive with all this cool technology on the inside i have to be honest
and say that out of all the cars i've driven right now this is probably the most enjoyable
for me as a gadget lover as a tech lover this car is amazing i'm driving to the countryside now
on the outskirts of london and what's great about driving through obviously the outskirts
of london in a country road with a small car is you don't have to worry about running out of space
in a bigger car down these tight country lanes that would be an issue in this car
no problem and of course this car has a fantastic turning circle which is able to turn in really
really small spaces both reversing and of course going around forwards which you would expect it to
do and those things mean that it's really nimble and easy to get around where the roads are narrow
where there's loads of traffic and not much space and that's one thing i really love about this car
the other thing i love about this car is the fact there's no mirrors because
what that means is i don't have to worry about the wing mirrors getting hit by somebody going fast
although i think the police there could have gone a bit slower
anyway the fact that this car is really nimble but it doesn't compromise on space
there's plenty of space in the back and you don't feel like you're in a small car either
you feel like you're in a much more spacious car maybe it's a result of the design which is very
clever with this wooden finish on the dashboard with all these displays with the mirrors on the
screens here on the side maybe it's all down to that maybe it's just honda in a very japanese way
have really efficiently figured it out but it works really well and i really really like it
and i think the honda is something really really exciting with the honda e here
the car feels very planted obviously going around corners you can't take too much speed into it
because it isn't a sports car you do definitely feel some roll overall this car feels great fun
the nimbleness the size and even though it doesn't have a massively powerful motor here it's still
got enough power and that combined with the size of it means it's just a lot of fun to drive i mean
i really enjoyed this and this is a head-turner of a car i mean the car i'm in is in blue and maybe
if it was in a darker color it wouldn't be quite so much of a head-turner but in this color or the
yellow that you can get everybody looks at this car i think part of the buying experience for this
car really comes down to the way that people seem to be drawn to it like if you had a supercar or
hyper car i feel like you get more looks in this car than you would do in a ferrari or lamborghini
or you know if we're going to go really exotic in a bugatti people don't know what this car is
so to conclude what's my taking the car score for this the honda e for comfort 4 5 it's a really
comfortable car for connectivity 505 is connected to the internet you've got all those screens
wireless carplay android auto everything you could want in this car for driver assistance 5 out of 5
it's got all the latest driving features adapter cruise control lane assist auto parking which will
come up in the parking bit in a minute and it's got more warnings and advanced alerts than any
other car i've seen so you know awesome 5x5 for that for parking 5 out of 5 because it's got a
tiny turning circle of 4.3 meters which is about half of the london taxi plus it's got the 360
camera the top down view and everything you could want and the auto parking and a wing mirror so
you don't have to worry about clipping your wing mirrors so top notch parking and then of course we
have the environment five out of five environment electric car and value four out of five overall
that gives us a take in a car score 28 out of 30. i really really like this car i think this
car is fantastic i wouldn't be surprised if i ended up buying one of these as my next car
and i hope that you have the opportunity to go and check one of these out where you live please give
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