Tron: Legacy soundtrack comes preloaded
Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026
Submitted 10 months ago by Dinsmore@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24030236/honda-zero-ev-global-series-concept-ces
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troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
hans zimmer actually made a soundpack for some BMW models, imagine having hiroyuki sawano make one for their cars.
aubertlone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Daft Punk for the Honda Tron Remix 2.0 album or gtfo
AbackDeckWARLORD@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Just make a regular looking car that happens to be EV. I don’t know why manufacturers have to make the dumbest looking vehicles for their EV cars.
Sunfoil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Styles are changing, I guess they’re focus grouping it and people want cars from blade runner. No longer requiring a radiator or exhaust has actually produced some interesting designs.
AbackDeckWARLORD@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
No longer requiring a radiator or exhaust has actually produced some interesting designs.
I would rather just have more storage. I think lucid did it right for EV design, same with Rivian. Seems like the legacy car manufacturers always make a goofy design. The lucid air for example is a foot shorter than the S class but has more space.
Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Lots of visibility with such a small front end, but it’ll make head-on collisions scarier, also, imo. Looks aerodynamic, too. I’d have no issue rocking this for my daily.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 10 months ago
Money would be the issue for me.
Just give me a standard car with an electric engine.
Dlayknee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wouldn’t worry about it too much, the concept cars always look sleek and then the manufacturers poop out something that looks way more standard. See: the Chevy Volt.
ex10n@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’m with you on this. I feel like manufacturers still feel like people are wanting to make a statement by making EVs look like their suited for spaceflight. I’d rather have near similar looking models to what we’ve already got with the combustion engine, with aerodynamic considerations for efficiency baked in.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No real specs are being released, but Honda says these future EVs will be both partially and fully autonomous, depending on the configuration.
Doubt
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Does cruise control and lane assist count as “partially autonomous”?
USSEthernet@startrek.website 10 months ago
They’ll say anything buzzwordy to hype investors
LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 10 months ago
There's nothing reasonable to doubt, partially autonomous cars are already here, it's what many existing cars already do - lane keeping, smart cruise control, etc.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fully Autonomous is nowhere near ready
Grass@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Marginally nicer looking than the cybertruck. I would steal this in GTA if I played GTA and it was a car in the game
Fedizen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ever notice how all the new selling points for cars are all things to avoid the experience of driving a car:
-self driving (because why would you want to drive a car)
-giant screens (because why would you want to look at all the shitty strip malls)
-tinted windows (because you wouldn’t want to be seen driving this piece of shit)
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 10 months ago
-self driving (because why would you want to drive a car)
Don’t use it/pay for self driving option
-giant screens (because why would you want to look at all the shitty strip malls)
People have been putting screens in cars for a very long time.
-tinted windows (because you wouldn’t want to be seen driving this piece of shit)
Prime have been tinting windows for a very long time
kattenluik@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Are you trying to counter what the other commenter said or trying to make a point or something? Because you really have not at all.
BURN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s all that cars have become. It’s great for anyone who doesn’t like driving, it sucks for anyone who enjoys it
magnetosphere@kbin.social 10 months ago
Don’t worry, folks. Most of the time, concept cars exist solely to look interesting and get people talking, especially when it’s from a major manufacturer. I’m sure the production model will be much more
boringappealing to the masses.Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I just want the damn Honda E little hatchback thing in the US
StuffYouFear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Looks amazing, but is also $48,000 USD for a very small car. I drive a 89 CRX so I do love small cars, just that is way too much.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
All evs are overpriced right now sadly
Joelk111@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They look great imo, but the full self driving is a pipe dream.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I dunno. If there is a culture that I think has innovated great ideas into reality it’s the Japanese car companies. They took what we wanted in the 80s and made it happen. Then kept doing it.
Justas@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It looks like the head of a vacuum cleaner. Or a Star Trek TOS phaser.
Zorque@kbin.social 10 months ago
Someone at Honda looked at the failure that is the Cybertruck and was like "Huh... not bad"
Bonehead@kbin.social 10 months ago
The difference here is that the car in the picture is a concept car, which very very rarely ever makes it to production as is. The Cybertruck is the exception to that rule...
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Oh don’t worry, the real Cybertruck is much worse than the concept!
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 10 months ago
The low, sloping shape gives it a sporty feel that cribs from Honda’s Formula 1 experience.
So the car will be terrible for several years, then they’ll bring out a model that’s amazing with sales going through the roof, and then they’ll immediately pull out of the market.
Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Continuing the trend of completely butchering the rear end of the vehicle as is the case with many other modern cars aswell.
ours@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Seems they looked at nature for inspiration and baboon rear-ends were their take-away.
paddirn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh yeah, when you see a lady driving one of these things around, you’ll know she’s in heat with her swollen red rear-end. boom-chica-wowow
SomeoneWhoIsntMe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why do these concept vehicles always have to look this dumb and practical? Why can’t we get EU sized personal electric vehicles? Think Fiat 500 or the Renault Twingo?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Cuz you guys don’t buy them. Got another easy question?
franklin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also because with the way out emissions standards are enforced it’s more profitable to make and sell and SUV or truck class vechile so they’re marketed harder.
Holy fuck do I love capitalism.
ExLisper@linux.community 10 months ago
What do you mean? You will have an electric Fiat 500 in 2024.
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Doesn’t BMW have a little electric commuter?
Mac@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Make a CRX-E
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ll second that!
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I really hope that back end is the charging port and you get to park you car like one of those toy cars that you you ‘charge’ up and fire across the room.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 10 months ago
I'm never getting my EV 1989 VW GTI, am I?
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 10 months ago
As a resto mod? Possibly.
As a modern EV? Never.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 10 months ago
Fine! I'll make my own 1989 VW GTI EV! With blackjack! And hookers!
Seraph@kbin.social 10 months ago
We need some more future cars like this.
Why does all our shit looks like someone just smoothed out the cars from the 90s?
funkajunk@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Because making cars more aerodynamic was way easier than making ICEs more efficient.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 10 months ago
Because this looks like shit? Its an even worse cyber truck.
verysoft@kbin.social 10 months ago
Because the "smoothed out the cars from the 90s" are practical, servicable and (American pickups aside) not gargantuan space hogs.
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hey, you leave Space Hog outta this. I miss those guys.
paddirn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wait, no side mirrors AND you can’t see out the back? I guess you can only ever go forward in this thing or just hope there’s nothing behind you ever.
lud@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Prototypes look cooler without mirrors, they always add them after
Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Everyone: ewww the Cybertruck is so ugly Honda: hold my beer
El_guapazo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Looks like someone watched The Wraith recently.
Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s only list! Just got it
andyburke@fedia.io 10 months ago
I wasn't gonna bother to click through, but now you sold me.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Honda is also aiming for optimum battery efficiency through its use of e-Axles, a system consisting of a motor, inverter, and gearbox that converts electric power into energy for driving.
This is revolutionary, folks: e-Axles! Can you believe it? They made an electric car!
They’re describing an electric car.
Then they gave it a fancy proprietary sounding name so gullible tech writers think it’s Technology™️ and regurgitate their ad copy as news articles.
fhqwgads@possumpat.io 10 months ago
To be fair e-axles are actually a thing. You can mount the electric motor where an engine would be and use largely the same components as a traditional car to get the motion to the wheels. Instead e-axles basically wrap all the motion components around the axle. Motor trend had an article about it a while ago.
www.motortrend.com/news/e-axle-vs-central-drive-motor-layout-commercial-evs
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
So it’s basically a fancy Technology™️ term for a layout decision which was called motor on axle for decades until a marketing department decided they needed some Innovation™️, and this tech writer described it so poorly I couldn’t even identify it even though I’ve programmed quad motor torque vectoring systems myself. Electric motors have this interesting property where they require such little support - basically a couple of power wires and some sensors - that they can scale to any size with very little overhead, and so you can do 4 motors. That’s it, electric cars give you this possibility for free.
“Motor-on-axle” is descriptive and helpful. In fact it’s too descriptive, because it reveals that nothing special is going on. “e-Axle” is opaque nonsense for gullible tech writers, and this one tried to make it sound special but ended up opting for such a vague language that they literally just described an electric car.
This entire article is just ad-copy. It’s fashion writing for tech nerds.
BURN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s so ugly
I’m sure I’ll see a ton of them, but they’re horrible looking
Patch@feddit.uk 10 months ago
They’re concept cars. Concept cars always look weird. The actual production models won’t look anything like them; they never do.
Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
They are awesome! It’s like what I imagined the future would be when I was a little kid. They’re ugly and weird, but the sporty one is cool. Shit, I’d even take the van if the range is good.
fosforus@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I’ve always loved how Hondas look, but this is a bit too futuristic for me.
Nacktmull@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Fuck cars, all of them!
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 10 months ago
Where’s the roof?
hark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m been hearing about all sorts of electric vehicles that will be available “a few years from now” for over five years now. The few that have come out are expensive and have compromises. Guess I’ll be sticking with my plug-in hybrid for quite a while longer.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’d be all over it, but only if it wasn’t full of log collection and self driving bullshit like all EVs. EVs are a step to buying a rental. It’s not yours. Cameras will be watching. You driving habits, tracks, conversations, etc, all sent to god knows where. This is the future of vehicles and it’s bullshit.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Countach vibes…
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Give me an electric Element - something with cargo space and rapid reconfigurability.
gregorum@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I really wish car companies would actually release production models that looked like the concept models. These look so goddamn cool.
bluGill@kbin.social 10 months ago
No you don't. They look cool and get you thinking you want them. However if you ever had to live with them instead of just looking you would quickly discover some of those cool looking things make for very annoying compromises and so you wouldn't want them.
GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
treadful@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I also think they’re cool. I also wouldn’t own one because of how incredibly out of place they look.
grue@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Chrysler used to do that. Did you ever put your money where your mouth is and buy a P.T. Cruiser, Prowler, or Crossfire?
gregorum@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I really wanted a crossfire, but couldn’t afford one at the time
Synthuir@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Hell yeah, I owned a PT for about a year, that car was fun to drive. Never been able to hold the gas pedal to the floor for as long in any other car!
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
If in was in my 50’s having a raging midlife crisis, I would totally get a prowler