Honda E review | We live with the tiny EV that thinks it's a Tesla 

Would the Honda e suit your lifestyle? Let us know below...

Got a blue Advance Honda e, two weeks ago. At the age of 51 and many fine (and crappy) cars owned, this is by far the best. I love it, dodgy door handle sensors and all !

Great review. I purchased an ex-demo with 700 miles for under £24k and it’s just perfect. The range is a problem for some but it’s honestly so much fun to drive, and when it inevitably needs a charge you just plug in a streaming stick into the HDMI port and watch Netflix or Amazon Video.

This is cooler than a Tesla and has a muuuuuch better interior.

On looks alone, it's got loads of charm... The tech is right up there with the best. The range could be better but I bet it'll sell by the boatload...

Surely the build quality is 100x better than a Tesla. Great contrast with the Defender in the back at 6:35. I’d pick the Defender anytime.

I'd grab this in a second if it wasn't for the range. 350 miles, and I'd be beating down Honda's door for one.

Great review guys. Really in-depth and informative. The e isn't for me, but I love that it exists!

i got one of these as an ex demo saving 5k off its price and i love it! Ive done 2000 miles in it after only having it for less than two months

Love this thing and a Tesla wouldn’t be as well thought out and pleasant inside

Really well made film. This is such a "nearly" car, with the fantastic design and decent drive. But the range is the killer on these, and I think it might explain the ludicrous ex-demo bargains out there for about £10K under the new price. I'm not suggesting it needed Tesla or Kia like longevity; but if it were closer to 150 miles I'd grab one of these in a heartbeat. As it is, the reduced winter range people are seeing in real life is borderline for my current commute and rules out others.

I like the Honda-e modern futuristic looks and it's great retro style interior the only thing it needs is a bigger capacity battery🔋or there needs to be more fast charging spots available. Whether the battery 🔋would be upgradable in the future.

Is it had a bigger battery it will sell so much more

In fact it was a car I would consider but I won’t because the battery hasn’t got the range I need

It might be a breakthrough and can win hearts with normal penetrating pricing

I WISH Honda would bring these to the states. Would highly consider ditching my Tesla for it.

Lost it at the hammer drill 😂

This car would be a perfect second car of it wasn’t such stupid money, if it was around £20k ish it’d be great

#hondabump

Honda's own marketing department could not have done a more slavishly adoring job.

Doesn't remind of a tesla in any way shape or form. And yes, all the greatest hondas have been powered by petrol, like EVERY car ever for the past 100 years haha.

A brilliant Car magazine review. Simply to say drop the comparison with Tesla, the sooner that brand is consigned to the history of mistakes and cons the better! Let the likes of Honda, BMW and VW do the job properly without the likes of Musk 'behind' the false hype. Back to the Honda e, the Mini must be the challenge here.

I don't think that an EV necessarily needs all those screens with touch input, I hope that when the enthusiasm cools down, EVs will have simpler functions and real buttons, I hope someone can bring the charm and simplicity of old cars into a new era

Only 16 year old, pimpled kids, would want a Tesla - or even worse - an Apple badge, on their car. People who were children in the '80s, as you mentioned, are 40+ now, and our age cohort still values engineering and a proper motorcar!!! Give me a Civic Type R any day of the week, twice on a Sunday!!!

Sorry the range is just unsuitable for me

Don't know why you keep comparing to Tesla. It is not trying to be a Tesla and it's not ment to be a long journey car . Do you compare every electric car to a Tesla ?? Think the claim of it thinking it's a Tesla is all in your head and you not doing ev justice if you Tesla biased

Come on CAR, rolling out the old “range anxiety” issue yet again? Really? Precisely how many people regularly drive more than 80miles in one direction these days? Think it’s like a laptop, when you stop, plug the bloody thing in. It’s a top-up philosophy not a fill-up philosophy. I get that that doesn’t work for you trying to pile on the miles for testing, but that’s not how the rest of us use cars.

So all the styling, nice interior, and decent performance flalls flat on its face because in range its a shopping trolley, not a car. The torture of driving a bit more then 80 miles in this car makes it completly irrelevant not to mention the price. Thnx for your great ice cars Honda, but u will be bankrupt in 5 years

Review a Honda and mention Tesla about a dozen times. Not every car is trying to be a boring overhyped soap bar.

Ah, yes, folks, the Honda hee-hee e... ...This obscenely overpriced, over-teched offering looks like a cross between a batt-pack-shopping-trolley and a doubly concave mobile matchbox. Saleswise, in this country, I predict that it will prove to be a colossal white elephant. It features a boot the size of a postage stamp plus a range just about capable of carrying you twice round the block - ok, make that three times - added to which there's a charging-port lid on the bonnet resembling the top of your nan's commode. Finally (this next bit is tech overload gimmickry gone beserk and then some) we come to a multitude of in-your-face screens stretching would you believe the entire length of the dash, one, wait for it, forming a mock fish tank...I kid you not. Presumably its purpose is in answer to the masses of ev drivers demanding the manufacturer be absolutely sure to provide on the facia fake images of floating perch etc. The only aspect which appeals to me are those innovative door cameras but you pay through the nose and mouth to enjoy their inclusion. [News recently reached me regarding an individual who, apparently murmuring yuck phrases such as 'Cutesy-cutesy-cool' and probably wetting their underwear in the process of viewing the thing, proceeded to put down a deposit to purchase this Japanese runabout. A few weeks following delivery said person went into a motor accessories shop wanting a windscreen wiper for it. The assistant's response was, 'Sounds about right!']

This is an awful car - too expensive, too short-range, too little storage, too slow, too silly-looking. All frills and no balls. The idea that a car with this little range won't give you near constant range anxiety is nonsense as full charged, you can't go further than 35 miles in any direction without needing to think about charging. How much was this guy paid to write this puff piece?

Expensive, slow, very poor range, tiny boot.

How exactly is it a baby Tesla? It's slow, has crap range, tiny screens. The only thing it has in common is stupid door handles.