Overview of Honda Exhibits at the JAPAN MOBILITY SHOW 2023

Introducing mobility products, services, and technologies made from Honda dreams

TOKYO, Japan, September 26, 2023 – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced the lineup of a wide variety of motorcycles, automobiles, power products, aircraft, and other products, as well as technologies and concept models, that Honda will exhibit at the JAPAN MOBILITY SHOW 2023, formerly known as the Tokyo Motor Show. (Press days: October 25-26, Public days: October 28 – November 5, 2023)

*Note: Vehicles/exhibits shown in these images differ from the actual exhibits.

Honda JAPAN MOBILITY SHOW 2023 special website:

http://global.honda/en/japan-mobility-show/2023/

Honda is conducting its mobility business based on its Global Brand Slogan: The Power of Dreams – How we move you. This Global Brand Slogan conveys the message:

“The dreams of each and every one working at Honda have always been the company’s driving force. The variety of mobility products and services Honda creates with its power of dreams will move people physically, move people’s hearts, and help many people realize their own dreams so there will be an expanse of dreams towards the future.”

Based on the passion reflected in its Global Brand Slogan, Honda will showcase its dreams at the JAPAN MOBILITY SHOW 2023 in the form of mobility products, services, and technologies that will enable people to “transcend various constraints such as time and place” and “augment their abilities and possibilities.” The exhibits at the Honda booth will offer visitors an opportunity to imagine their own future dreams and experience the expanse of new dreams.

■Honda booth theme: “Honda DREAM LOOP”

With the “Honda DREAM LOOP” booth theme, Honda will express the future towards which the diverse dreams of people will continue expanding, starting with mobility products and services that embody Honda’s dreams.

The Honda booth is designed to showcase the dreams and initiatives Honda has realized to date, along with images of people’s daily lives in the future when Honda’s dreams have come true. Through these exhibits, Honda aims to facilitate customer understanding of the dreams and future society that the company wants to realize.

In addition, through Honda’s special website for the JAPAN MOBILITY SHOW 2023, the company will offer a visitor participation experience, in which visitors input ideas for their own “dream mobility” using their own words and AI will generate the image of a “design drawing of the dream” for each participant. The AI-generated images will be displayed on LED monitors in the Honda booth and on the special website, enabling visitors to imagine the future they can co-create with Honda and share the feeling of excitement.

Key Honda booth exhibits

With mobility products created as the embodiment of its dreams, Honda is striving to offer value by enabling people to “transcend various constraints such as time and place” and “augment their abilities and possibilities.” The Honda booth and special website will showcase Honda products and technologies that offer this value.

＜Honda mobility products designed to transcend the constraints＞

■SUSTAINA-C Concept and Pocket Concept (World Premiere)

These concept models of electric automobiles and motorcycles are designed to enable people to transcend the constraints of limited resources. Made of acrylic resin that is recycled and reused, they were developed to demonstrate the concept of transcending the constraints of the limited availability of resources through “resource circulation.” This means they can achieve both environmental sustainability and the joy and freedom of mobility long into the future.

                                                   Pocket Concept

■SC e: Concept (World Premiere)

The concept model of an electric motorcycle designed to enable people to transcend the constraints of time by easily swapping the batteries and eliminating waiting time for battery charging. Powered by two units of Honda Mobile Power Pack e: swappable batteries, which is one way to expand the use of renewable energy, this model offers a smooth and powerful ride unique only to an electric motorcycle and offers more comfort for people’s daily mobility.

■Honda Specialty Sports Concept (World Premiere)

A concept model of an electric sports car that will enable the driver to experience the pure joy of driving and transcend the constraints of time, even in the era of electrification for carbon neutrality and the increasing popularity of automated driving technology. The joy of driving and distinctive individuality of this model will enable people to transcend their everyday life.

■HondaJet/Honda eVTOL^*1

When combined with mobility products on the ground that will make “three-dimensional mobility” available for people, Honda mobility products in the skies will enable people to transcend the constraints of place and distance. Honda will exhibit a full-size interior mockup of the HondaJet Elite II light business jet, welcoming visitors inside to experience it. In addition, the one-fifth-size exterior mockup of the Honda eVTOL, and the gas turbine hybrid system currently under development as a power unit for the aircraft, will also be on display.

*1 eVTOL: electrical Vertical Take Off and Landing aircraft

■Electric products that utilize the Honda Mobile Power Pack e:

By storing and carrying clean renewable energy in a Honda Mobile Power Pack e: and using the energy in various locations and applications, people can transcend the constraints of limited resources and achieve both environmental sustainability and freedom of mobility in their daily lives. Honda will exhibit various electric products powered by Honda Mobile Power Pack e: and other energy-related technologies.

＜Honda mobility products designed to augment abilities and possibilities＞

■Honda CI-MEV (World Premiere)

The demonstration model of a two-seat, four-wheel electric vehicle that features Honda’s original Cooperative Intelligence (CI) and automated driving technologies to offer easily accessible last-mile mobility for any user. Honda is striving to extend the living radius for people, especially for those who are in situations that tend to limit mobility, such as when there is no public transportation or when people experience difficulty walking a long distance.

                                                          Honda CI-MEV

■Honda Autonomous Work Vehicle (Japan Premiere)

The demonstration model of a platform-style autonomous vehicle that can be used for a wide range of applications using various attachments. The Honda AWV is being developed to augment people’s abilities and possibilities by transporting large loads and reforming a variety of tasks on behalf of human users in environments where people can have difficulty performing these tasks.

■Honda Avatar Robot

An avatar robot that will enable the user to transcend the constraints of time and place and enhance people’s abilities and possibilities. Featuring a multi-fingered robotic hand, which was developed while applying technologies Honda has amassed through its research into robotics, including ASIMO and AI-supported remote-control technology, the Honda Avatar Robot will let users perform tasks and experience things remotely as if they are there in person.

■UNI-ONE

A hands-free seated personal mobility device. Featuring balance control technology developed through Honda’s robotics research and the Honda Omni Traction Drive System, Honda’s original wheel mechanism that moves naturally in all directions, the UNI-ONE is a mobility device the user can steer simply by shifting their body weight while sitting and move as if they were walking. The UNI-ONE will expand opportunities for users with mobility challenges. 

■Other Honda mobility products that will augment people’s possibilities

・Prototype of the new commercial-use mini-BEV and Power Exporter e: 6000 portable external power output device.

Mobility products and services originating from IGNITION*², Honda’s new business creation program, including:

・Ashirase, an in-shoe navigation system for the visually impaired (Ashirase, Inc.)

・Striemo, a one-person three-wheeled electric micro-mobility product (Striemo Inc.)

・RAIL ACTIVE-e bicycle equipped with Honda SmaChari, which will make a regular bicycle electric assisted and connected (Y. International., inc.). The SmaChari is the first technology originating from IGNITION that Honda will commercialize under the Honda brand.

*2 IGNITION is Honda’s new business creation program that gives shape to the original technologies, ideas, and designs of Honda associates to contribute to solving societal issues and creating new value for customers and society. The program started in 2017. In 2020, an option to start a new business venture was added to the program to realize the earliest possible real-world implementation of ideas. Ashirase, Inc. and Striemo Inc. were established as the first and second business ventures originating from IGNITION.

■List of products and technologies displayed by exhibit area in the Honda booth

^*3 WP=World premiere, JP=Japan premiere

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https://news.honda.co.jp/en/

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