Honda E city electric car with me for the hottest day recorded. Real world range & efficiency test! 

I love my Honda E, which was my second EV after owning a Model S for 8 years! Here are my thoughts: 1. Wing mirror screens are great but the rear view mirror is no good if you need reading glasses! (Luckily you can turn that off). 2. It’s roomy, comfortable , great to drive, nippy, comfortable on the motorway. 3. It could be quieter, but it’s not too bad. 4. The air con is very aggressive. 5. Wireless Apple Car Play is great. 6. The driver’s seat height adjustment could do with one more control. It can be tricky to get it exactly where you want it. 7. The boot is tiny. 8. The range is fine - if you regularly need to go further get a different car. 9. The driver aids (warnings) and adaptive cruise control is good (if sometimes annoying). 10. The one pedal driving is great. Rarely need to break. 11. It’s overpriced.

Thanks Richard, great review again. Very informative!! If only it had another 100 mile range!!

I enjoy your road test and perspectives and looked forward to this opinion. Unfortunately we won't be seeing these in the states but I really liked these. Obviously, I like the Mini EV as well but I went the cheaper route picking up a 2016 Chevy Spark EV with EPA range of 82 miles. As you said as long as you select these shorter range EVs with the right knowledge for it's use, these are perfect cars for first EVs, 2nd family vehicle and retired folks. Also as you mentioned these are fun and fairly zippy cars so taking them out for shorter trips is fun. Keep up the good work great informative videos.

I loved the car when I drove it but, in January at least, 80miles just wasn’t enough rage to get from one town to another. I am disappointed that Honda hasn’t increased the size of the battery as technology has moved forward.

Once again good video well done Philip Allen

I have a 2022 top spec model Leaf, it has exceeded my expectations at every turn and I love it. I have never suffered from range anxiety because I adjust my travel plans to take charging into account. A recent long trip to see friends went without any problems, we got to our destination which was 200 miles and put the car on charge while we had coffee and cake, it was fully charged by the time we were done, the return journey was as uneventful as the drive down. An EV suits my driving needs perfectly and I'll never go back to and will never go back to an ICE. I looked at the Honda and love the shape.....well everything but the wait for delivery was too long. Great video......

I am a huge Honda fan. But, the 100 mile range, ultra show charging and less than average efficiency makes it a No-Go. And it was not that cheap. My Model 3LR is to arrive in 60 days. Can't wait.

Thank you for the video. I’d be interested to hear how you felt it compared to a BMW i3S.

Englishman in flip-flops ... must be 10deg's C or higher.

Love the Honda e , drives very nice . I wish it had a better mobile app and a tad more range

Nice honest review

Price is it's Achilles heel. Honda's engineers and designers made a great car that, genuinely, I don't think their corporate high ups and accountants wanted to sell. They've priced it out of the market and I can't account for that otherwise, considering that other, bigger, longer range cars can be bought for much less. Such a crying shame.

Hi Richard. Flip flops, please tell us you didnt 😬 Great video content as always, thank you, enjoyed watching.

I love this car ... just wish it had that bit more capacity in range though ... just an extra 25 miles would do me.

Another car that gets bad press for range is the Mazda MX30. I had one for a day a quite liked it. If you get a chance to drive one, some time, a comparison with the Honda e would be very interesting.

My 2022 Tesla Model 3 Long Range loves this heat. Commutes that took 25% of battery now only used 16% in the heat. Love it Love it. ty

On the hottest day on record, 40.3C at Coningsby, nearby in Lincolnshire. I achieved 4.6 miles per kWh in my Mini, so I’m well impressed with this. I feel that if I had been rapid charging, the Mini would have done better than the Honda e. It usually pulls almost the full 50 kW upto 85%.

Love the E 🤘🚙

We have those days regularly here in Western Australia Richard and I can tell you that you are perfectly dressed for it. :)

Great review. Will you buy a blue one off me ?

Great video

They are a nice quirky car & I would rather have this is royal blue 👍👏

Nice to see the Holiday Inn charger is still not working!

It’s probably a better car than the Fiat 500e but I don’t think it’s £10,000 better… I bought a Fiat and 9000 miles and 8 months and no regrets only joy as I believe Fiat have made a decent car and they really understand how to capture the spirit of the original car.

Surely the BMW I3 is a fair comparison against the Honda? 2014 technology and still a great package!

Nice video as always and I always like how you are kind about a car without overlooking critical stuff. It is a funny car, bit like from a car cartoon film. I just think the price is not in a good relation to the extremely short range. But a stylish thing 👍 And regarding the heat wave: well, it is the hottest summer of our life so far but the coolest summer of our future

I always think with new lft batteries on the way that are lighter, more energy dense meaning less weight and more range the small hatch will soon have its EV day. Second gen MINI SE doing 250 real world miles would be a good start and I’m sure Honda are already working on the second gen Honda E. It does look very retro mk 1 golf to me. The price is still a problem these need to be £24k not £36k.

I really like the Honda E but for a city car it's just way too expensive. Which is why you hardly ever see one ! It's a car with a tiny niche market

fancier inside but reminds me a lot of my 2011 Nissan LEAF. Real world range and recharge times made it very challenging to use for long distances. At least it uses CCS.

We purchased a Honda E which has a VIN indicating it was manufactured in 2020, though the first registration was in 2022. Does that not seem very odd? Would you please give us some feedback please.

Lovely looking car, not sure about the camera mirrors. Just seems like something that’s just not needed. Also could imagine they’d be expensive if knocked off.

Crazy, i have done 9000km on my Model Y LR and i have the same efficiency as the little Honda E! Come on Honda you can do better!

seeing you using that infotainment system gives me nightmares and I am happy to drive a tesla 🤣

I get 4.5 miles/kWh without trying from my eniro. Yes it's pretty to look at with a few neat touches, just a shame it's so inefficient. Compliance car?

My biggest concern with this car was the digital mirror. I was not able to quick focus on it when a bit tired. Other point the other digital mirros are very bad when sunlight falls on the sensor. Rest a very funny little citycar a bit more batterie would be fine.

That is a very expensive car for just over 100 something miles of range. Looks great, but at that price it should have a much better range. Honda and Mazda are 2 car companies that are in serious trouble in the coming years.

I've got a honda E, and I am fully aware of climate change and I'm not one of those idiots that denies it. but the offset of an EV compared to a smaller engine petrol or diesel car is negligible at best. It really doesn't make a difference in the long run to the environment and that will all become very apparent when thousands of us need new batteries in 5 or 6 years time. Please dont take this as a personal attack, the rest of the video is great. Just think its not right to say that EV's as they currently are will save the world. The reason 90% of people buy them is either for a tax write off, or because of the price of fuel, 10% or less will buy them for environmental reasons.

Nice review. But I have to say Honda seem to have really missed the mark here. Looks great and cabin looks nice. But the frankly rubbish range combined with the high price and not great efficiency/charging speed mean its a definite no from me. Shame as always had Hondas in the 80/90's. Frankly I can see Honda and Toyota not even existing in 10 years time!

Can you borrow a Mazda CX30 EV with the rear doors?! That was great value once.

Driving in flip flops? Seriously!

Nice car, and really looks more like the electric successor to the classic BMC Mini, but... it's over priced, isn't it. It's why they don't really sell that well. For example, my VW ID.3 has lots more specification [and dodgy software 😀] and costs less. OK, no digital mirrors. The one I'm currently looking forward to seeing is the new MG4 EV. A shade under £26K for 200 mile range.

Temperature for test likely advantage

tbh the battery size would do me, i charge my current 500e at home usually daily via 3pin socket. i do about 150 miles a week to work and back and i do only local driving maybe max i drive is 12 miles to town and 12 miles back maybe 1 time a month. rest is local shops

A hot hatch for the hottest day but at a too-hot-to-handle price! 😁 To help with the "static 2D" digital side mirrors that lack depth perception, if Honda adds "blind spot indicators" (like in the MG ZS EV, and other cars) to the side mirrors, that would aid the the driver in terms of gauging how far away cars are. 👍

Hyundai kona Ime getting 5.7 miles per kw hour driving around town I get around 340 miles on a full charge

There's a royal blue metallic Honda E that I often see popping around where I live - I honestly think it's one of THE prettiest car designs I've ever seen... just fabulous...! As a city car - top marks. As an 'only' car - the poor range and laughable boot space just make it pointless. Such a pity, though... as it just looks SO cute... 😍

The tiny range of this car compared to similarly priced competition makes this car totally useless. People at Honda simply did not use their brains. With the mini electric perhaps even worse. We went with Fiat 500e at the end of the day and best decision - fantastic build quality and easily achieve 200 miles per charge in city driving conditions and around 170 on the motorway at 60mps average motorway speed. For less money and arguably better build and much better looking car. But it is the 500e range compared with the other two mentioned that truly kills them.

Another you tuber has a review on one of these 1000 miles in a day and it took 17 charges, my fav is his Tesla model 3 ending why I am done with EV's and going back to combustion. If you want real-world reviews on EV's he is the man as he isn't trying to sell anything and just shows why he cant have one any longer.

Great vid! CDA is the important figure of the brave new world it seems… also only Tesla really gets this? Are the other OEMs driven by design and brand first vs CDA and range? I guess with ICE cars you can just whack in another 10l of tank at the 11th hour of the design process ..?? I feel like there is all this legacy stuff that dictates the style of the car and whacks up the CDA value with these ICE OEMs… fascinating to see… why has no one just simply ripped off the shape of the 3 or S I wonder…

Yes we all need to be in EVs - more manufacturers need to do the same as MG and bring the prices down - and/or reflect better residuals of BEV in the Lease or PCP prices. I know MG is Chinese built but I feel most other manufacturers are pushing BEV prices up with no reason at all other than pushing up profits...

What do you mean mirrors are okay?

Shameful efficiency and the reason why Honda is in trouble. Something of this size & weight really should do better than ~40% WORSE than a bigger, longer range, faster Model 3. It's a total shame because this is such a wonderful piece of design & the right size but woeful as an EV. Almost like Honda designed everything except the 'E' part well.

We need Hyundai to produce a car this size. Not necessarily more range, but more efficient & faster charging (as per their other cars) for when you do need to do that odd longer journey. Oh, and cheaper!

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Jonny Said once it has a proper Japanese overload with the screens

I always want to know exactly how autosteer compares to my Tesla.

It’s called the cycluses of the earth, been like this for millions of years…

The Honda e has many plus points: Looks,build,refinement,turning circle etc. But when we test drove one 2 years ago on a warm day (25 degC) efficiency was poor, boot was tiny, no frunk, and it did not feel RWD and not that much fun to drive. Oh, and Honda quoted 100kW charge speeds but real world is barely 40kW! It has been a sales flop as hardly seen any in the real world and it is now other-worldly expensive.Almost £40k?! You would be utterly mad to buy one. OK on PCP etc and give it back after 2 years may be. Drop the price and put a 50kWh battery in one and it would be an interesting option.

No I don’t want to swap.

One of the coldest summers I remember! Everybody must have bought electric cars using your logic Richard 😂😂😂 or people are really in to child slave labour for some wonderful Colbalt.

Hhm. £36,000 for a city car. Electric seems to be at quite a premium for something that looks like a Micra K11 gone wrong.

Cute little car until you mentioned the £36k price, I looked it up just incase you meant £26k but you were correct. To me that’s utterly ridiculous, £36k for a 100 miles range..real world. Can you imagine if Honda, Hyundai etc come out with a little petrol engined car that had a 2 gallon tank giving you a range of 100 miles and took best part of an hour to replenish the 2 gallons….costing £36k, they’d be ridiculed beyond belief. It seems common sense goes out the window when we start talking about some EVs.

£35k for a small hatchback that will only do 100 miles? Seems Honda are about 10 years behind the curve. Seems comparable with the original Nissan Leaf. Honda need to find a way of making the car less expensive and at least doubling the range, to compete with any of the rather more compelling small EVs now available!

You drove in flip flops????

Ignore South Mimms... absolutely pointless ... even if you get a free charger. Best to go to Junction 22 and stop at the Instavolt chargers.

Expensive , since the grant gone , only a fool would buy this

Always enjoy your videos but driving in flip flops is like watching kids running around a swimming pool on wet tiles. If you have an accident, fault or not your insurance company may well decline your claim.

Price is too high and efficiency is just too low. Shouldn't be using more KWs/mile than a large family saloon when it's a small city hatch. I think Honda tried to cram too much tech into it and those computers are sapping energy away from driving about. Fine for purely London driving or any urban driving, but from experience with EVs this would be a killer on an important drive like trying to catch a flight at Heathrow where it's over 100 miles to get there and you don't want to leave it empty while parked. The price is a big problem too, it's £38k and no amount of kit justifies that for a 35KW pack. It's only £4k less than a Model 3 SR+ which goes almost 300 miles and has way more advanced autopilot features and tech in general. I mean, actually from inventory right now, there's Model 3s around £38.5k as they prepare for the updated 2024 model. With being the case, this is an instant no from me. +efficiency +battery pack size to closer to 40KW -the cluttered tech dashboard -£££ and they have a winner here though. Bring on the Mark II!

Why is it that I charged my i3s on that very day at 39c and got 49kw up to 84% before tailing of gradually to 95% before falling of a cliff in 35 minutes. The battery temp was 36c must be the liquid cooling on the i3s is more efficient than on most cars I see reviewed? Conversely in winter I still get around 46kw to 82% when ioniq 5 owners are crying Foul getting 26%

That car is bloody awful. Appreciate the video as always Rich, thx 👍🏻

For a ground up ev with no mirrors efficiency hopeless , winter you will find it’s a joke, likely the worse on the market, another Japanese mistake

36k for an 100 miles no thanks stick to petrol

This is a car in the category "BEV I would love to buy my wife". But it's quite the worst car in terms of electric parameters. Fiat 500e, Mini Cooper, Opel Corsa-e are all way better in terms of range. And this matters, because wifey wants to visit her friends and family sometimes who live far away. And she can do it very easily with every small ICE city car.

Heat and ac and highway are huge factors I think because Electrobays got 17km per 1kW hour (10miles) at abt 25degs incl some highway

You were doing so well until you started talking nonsense about why people are still buying ICE cars. It takes 9 years before your electric car is CO2 positive and then it will need new batteries.

Such a fantastic little car and WAAAY overpriced, fiat 500e starts under £22,000!! Find some suitable driving shoes, driving in flip flops is dangerous and irresponsible. In the next video... Running with scissors??

I will not buy a car that gives me a disclaimer (or whatever you call it) every time I enter it. Feels like those annoying cookie accept boxes. 😀

Proof positive that Honda really really hates Electric cars. Whilst cute, the price, the range, the inefficiency, mediocre charging ..... the perfect city car?, except in the city you really be using Public Transport. A joke, quite literally at your expense. If you have to BMW i3 instead.

It's not real world load it up with the family and baggage then see how far you get

Again this is a compliance car for Honda. It feels like and EV killer to drive people to ICE vehicles. It is very oddly designed.

poor value....remember if you don't want public charging hassle the range is 45 miles

It's not retro - watch here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iere3DPQhkg.html And driving in flip-flops should be banned. You need proper shoes to apply the necessary force on the breakpedal just in case.

5:55 Of course, driving in Flip Flops should now be considered as against the law, along with boots and high heels etc.

Hello mate

Not really a shocker that Honda built an overpriced mediocre EV. Their ICE vehicles are way more profitable for them. Plus their dealers are less enthusiastic about selling EVs because they require less service and maintenance compared to ICE vehicles.

No noise no smell electric cars are a joke.

blaming the heat on petrol cars, joker

I was enjoying the video until you DECIDED to put down the weather to people buying Petrol/diesel cars. How are you blaming people? Has if you've never drove a petrol or diesel 🤣 oh is it because now you've become a vegan everybody else is wrong and should turn into a vegan aswell? Find it very hypocritical of you to be honest. 1 dislike from me just because of that.

City car means shit range , made up name for evs with crap range . Most expensive late to market ev . Price just ridiculous for a newish motor

Nice car ,crap review .

Honda fucking shit.

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