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Electric sports cars the future of Honda

Honda CR-Z EV
Adam Schoeman

As we reported yesterday, the Honda NSX is on the cusp of making its public debut. But that does not mean that Honda is ready to close the books on its electric vehicles and move on to something else. In fact it means that it is ready to continue work on sports car EVs.

Apparently, Honda is looking to reinvent the now defunct S2000 as well as a smaller four-cylinder sports car, but is keen to reuse the SH-AWD torque distribution system developed for the NSX.

This aligns quite nicely to a CR-Z at the Tokyo Motor Show and which also made an appearance at the Pikes Peak hill climb. It featured four electric motors, one at each corner of the car, with a total output of between 190 kW and 330 kW.

The final car is expected to receive 260 kW worth of electric power from the four motors as it tries to balance range and the weight of additional batteries. Honda says that the production car will need to have a working range of 480 km to satisfy customers.

We are normally not too excited about electric cars, but seeing as this Honda is built around their torque distribution system, which has been receiving rave reviews from those that have been able to sample the pre-release NSX, we are interested to see where this goes.

I mean there isn’t much wrong with a sports car that has a 480 km range and can execute a 0-100 km/h sprint in 3.5 seconds as well as boast an advanced track-friendly four-wheel drive system.

Except for the price; EV technology is still expensive and Honda says the EV CR-Z will probably be priced towards the $100,000 mark. That’s Audi RS 7 money and just a tad short of the Audi R8, so while it might be an intriguing idea, we’d still rather choose petrol at this stage over EV power.

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