ELECTRIC N-GAGEMENT(some text hidden)

By Jonathan Crouch

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With this Super-N, Honda is providing something really different in the smallest part of the segment for EV city cars. It's charming, practical and fun in a way rivals just aren't.

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For Honda, the full-EV revolution has to begin all over again. And it restarts in explosive style with this car, the Super-N. It seems incredible that prior to the launch of this model in July 2026, Honda didn't have a single EV in its line-up. The brand has tried of course. Its first two efforts, the charismatic little Honda e and the rather anodyne e:NY1, didn't sell because they were too expensive and didn't go far enough between charges. The new era beyond these designs was supposed to be covered by a new 'O Series' line-up of EVs, but they've now been cancelled, presumably because Honda thinks the slow market take-up on electric cars gives it time to come up with something better. But what to offer EV folk in the meantime? Well the Super-N is that stop-gap, a tiny, sprightly little urban runabout bursting with charisma. Its origins lie with the brand's Japanese market N-One, developed for that country's segment for even tinier sub-citycar-sized 'kei' cars and subsequently launched in all-electric form as the N-One E. The Super-N is the performance version of that car, known as the 'Super-One' in Japan but called the 'Super-N' for naming rights reasons here.