October 29, 2025 by Tom Wiltshire
Honda’s new Super-N prototype previews a tiny EV with a sporty attitude, replacing the Honda e – and you’ll be able to buy one in 2026
You remember the Honda e, right? It was a great little electric car with a super-cool interior, anime styling and loads of tech – but it was also expensive and had a comically short range. Well, Honda’s giving small EVs another go with this – the new Super-N Prototype, which previews a new car hitting the UK market from next year. It’s chosen the Japan Mobility Show for this car’s world debut.
The Super-N Prototype features the distinctive boxy shape, wheel-at-each-corner stance, upright silhouette and tiny dimensions that mark out a ‘kei’ class car – Japan’s smallest class of vehicle, built to strict guidelines and subject to lower tax levels than bigger cars. The Super-N Prototype is built on the same underpinnings as the recently revealed Honda N-One e, but the boxy wheelarches and wider stance look like they’ll tip it over the required dimensions to class as a kei car.
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The Super-N may have a few sporty styling touches, but underneath it’s still absurdly cute – it’s like a fluffy duckling with a gang tattoo. The front end features LED headlights with circular daytime running lights surrounding them and a flat front panel.
For the Japanese market N-One e, the front panel houses dual charging ports – one for slow household charging and another for faster public charging, but this wouldn’t be necessary in a UK model due to the different connector standards we use here.
Round at the rear, there’s a huge tailgate that runs way down into the rear bumper – this has a blacked-out middle section with ‘Honda’ spelled out across it. There’s also an F1-style reflector in the centre of the rear bumper, which may become the rear foglight on a UK model.
Cool-looking (and tiny) eight-spoke alloys sit within the boxy wheel arches, and behind them you can see red brake calipers.
The inside is a bit less sporty-looking, but the focus of a kei car is typically practicality above styling. To that end, you get a sensibly laid-out dashboard with a flat floor and no centre console, enabling you to easily slide over and get out of either front door – essential in a super-crowded Japanese city, and likely to be highly useful in a cramped UK multistorey, too…
Plenty of Honda switchgear, such as the gear selector buttons, infotainment touchscreen and two-spoke steering wheel will be familiar from the Jazz and the Civic. They’re set into a flat-faced, square dashboard with minimal styling.
Honda has fitted cool sports seats with an asymmetric blue pattern, which look significantly more supportive than the flat items in the N-One e. No practicality figures have been released, but the upright silhouette and tall roofline should mean excellent rear passenger space. And the N-One e has the same ‘Magic Seats’ with flip-up seat bases as the Jazz, boosting practicality – fingers crossed they stay in place for the Super-N.
Details for this are thin on the ground, and Honda hasn’t revealed any performance figures. It has said that the Super-N will get a ‘Boost’ mode, which not only maximises performance but simulates a physical gear shift as well as activates a noise generator – a bit like a Hyundai Ioniq 5 N.
Honda claims it’ll ensure ‘a sense of excitement and enhanced driving engagement that is unique to a vehicle of this size’.
We can expect a boost in power over the 63hp that the N-One e gets, but it’s likely that it’ll share that car’s 29.3kWh battery. This gives the N-One e a WLTP range of around 180 miles, which is likely to be less with the Super-N’s wider wheels and increased performance.
The N-One e is capable of accepting a 50kW fast charge, enabling a quick top-up.
The Super-N will hit the market in Japan first, followed by the UK and other Asian markets, throughout 2026. No other European markets are likely to get the Super-N, though if demand in the UK is sufficiently high Honda may well reconsider.
There’s no pricing information yet. The Honda N-One e costs from 2.7 million yen – less than £14,000 – in its native Japan, but it’d be surprising if the Super-N was such a bargain. We’d conservatively estimate a price tag of about £25,000 when it hits the UK market, depending on just how much added performance the Super-N has over the N-One e.
Whatever it costs, we can’t wait to drive 2026’s cutest new car – we’ll get behind the wheel as soon as we’re able.
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