Honda and Sony joined forces in 2022 to form Sony Honda Mobility (SHM) in a bid to take on the top electric vehicle brands.

A pair of 241-horsepower electric motors—one front, one rear—propel the Afeela 1. At 482 hp combined, the Afeela 1 is likely to be quick, but not on a par with similarly priced electric cars.

In a little over a year, Sony Honda Mobility expects to launch the Afeela 1, a battery-electric sedan that’s been very visibly half a decade in the making. When I ask CEO Yasuhide Mizuno about the ...

Under the body, every Afeela 1 will come standard with an air-spring suspension, with an unequal-length control arm setup in the front and a multilink arrangement out back. The Lucid Air Pure uses ...

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Other tech bits include active interior noise cancellation and a unique (for the moment) messaging panel mounted on the Afeela’s front bonnet lip (below). Owners can customize the front message ...

This year’s party piece saw SHM boss Yasuhide Mizuno summon the “near production ready” Afeela 1 to the CES stage ... power to dual 180kW motors at the front and rear. Total power output ...

A panoramic front display with 3D mapping, a spatial sound system, and 5G connectivity round out the cutting-edge technology suite of the Afeela's cabin. In true Sony fashion, the website ...

Sony Honda Mobility says the Afeela 1 has 40 sensors – including 18 cameras, one lidar system (that’s the box at the front of the roof), nine radars and 12 ultrasonic sensors. All of this ...

TECH giants Sony have teamed up with Honda to unveil their first ever car that they liken to “a relaxing place like a living room”. The exciting new motor was on display at this year’s Consumer ...

These low-slung electric upstarts approach the formula from very different directions. Is the Afeela already too little, too ...