Tokyo Preview: Honda EV-N concept is retro-adorable, has unicycle storage

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Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Honda, Tokyo Motor Show, Green Daily Honda EV-N Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery When the curtain rises on the Tokyo Motor Show next month, Honda's green-themed display will include what it calls the HELLO! Zone, a showcase for electric vehicles. Why "HELLO! Zone"? Well, we have no idea, other than it reminds us of a certain feline and that the Japanese clearly have a thing for all-caps names and exclamation points. In the HELLO! Zone, showgoers can say, uh, "hello" to the excruciatingly neat, relentlessly cute EV-N concept. It's a retro-styled battery-powered car with a face of a pug puppy crossed with a Trabant and nifty concept-y features like swappable seat fabrics, a solar roof, and a "communications system" embedded in the black front fascia. Most importantly, however, the EV-N's passenger door contains one of those bizarrely kickass UX-3 super gyroscopic robot unicycles, which pretty much makes the EV-N the coolest electric car of all time. We think. Anyhow, when Honda unveils an ASIMO that can both drive the EV-N and then self-deploy on the UX-3, it's time to go hide under your beds, because that'll be the signal that their robot army is ready for world domination. But we digress. Check out the high-res pics of the EV-N in the gallery below. [Source: Honda]Tokyo Preview: Honda EV-N concept is retro-adorable, has unicycle storage originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments More...

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