Honda Super EV concept is a “fun” rival for the Volkswagen ID.2

Honda has confirmed it will reveal its ‘Super EV’ concept at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed – a small, city-focused electric car and a successor to the slow-selling Honda e.

Little is known about the Honda Super EV at this stage, but it fits neatly with our scoop from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, when we reported on Honda’s plans to launch a replacement for its now-defunct electric city car, which was removed from sale in 2023. 

At the time, Honda’s global head of electrification business development, Katsushi Inoue, told us the brand was “at the development stage” and that “eventually, in the future, [Honda] will talk about smaller vehicles”.

It turns out that the “future” is actually now, as just six months on from CES, the firm is gearing up to show its take on the next-generation small car. Dubbed Super EV, the concept will eventually appear as a small electric car to rival mainstream models like the latest MINI Cooper and Fiat 500e, as well as budget newcomers such as the BYD Dolphin Surf and Citroen e-C3.

So far, Honda has issued a single image of the new model driving across Westminster Bridge in London, followed by one of the city’s iconic black cabs. While heavily camouflaged, the tall, upright stance gives the model a kind of Kei-car-like appearance; it’s not year clear whether the dimensions would fit that bill, but either way, the Super EV is expected to have a tiny footprint not dissimilar to the discontinued e.

Other notable design features include round headlights inspired by 2023’s Honda Sustaina-C concept, plus a bluff front end and an offset charging port. As is often the case with cars designed to sit on dedicated EV platforms, the wheels have been pushed right out into the corners, providing a relatively long wheelbase to the benefit of those inside.

Honda says the Super EV has been “designed as an A-segment compact EV that realises both practical usability and the “joy of driving” only Honda can offer. 

Leveraging a sporty and highly responsive driving experience distinctive to compact vehicles,” the Super EV Concept apparently offers an “uplifting, heart-pounding driving experience,” says Honda. 

The car will run up the iconic Goodwood hillclimb next month, alongside the next-generation Honda Prelude and recently-announced Civic Type R Ultimate Edition.

Back at CES, Mr Inoue told us that a future Honda sub-£30,000 EV would need to sit outside the brand’s new seven-car 0 Series platform, confirming that the architecture wouldn’t support anything smaller than a Civic-sized family hatchback. “We are thinking about it away from 0 Series,” he said.

Of the seven cars confirmed under the 0 Series plan between now and 2030, the SUV and saloon will reach global markets from next year, with a baby SUV to be revealed in 2026 – at this stage only confirmed for Asian markets, although Europe is a possibility. A larger seven-seat SUV in 2027 is likely to be only for the US market.

Beyond that, a compact SUV is expected in 2028, a year ahead of another smaller SUV, plus a compact saloon by the end of the decade. 

Although China and Japan are the target markets for the smallest SUV coming next year, Honda’s BEV General Manager Mitsuri Kariya admitted that although it’s not decided, he would like to see the baby electric SUV come to European markets as well. 

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