Clean and electric. That hopefully will be the future of mobility gauging from the concept cars that have been put on display during the 44th staging of the Tokyo Motor Show.
As one of the front runners of this year’s TMS, Honda utilized its global brand slogan – The Power of Dreams as a booth concept to showcase its wide range of products which includes innovative mobility items to make life easier as well as racing machines that pursue excellence in driving performance.
With the Honda NSX and the new Civic Type taking center stage, Honda’s all new Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) enters the production mode and is the first commercially available sedan with the entire fuel cell power train consolidated under the hood. This layout , Honda engineers say, has enabled Honda to provide a full cabin package that can comfortably accommodate five adults. During the press briefing last week at the TMS sidelines, Toshio Kuwahara, president and GM of Honda Cars Philippines Inc, revealed that the FCV has a cruising range of 700kms and enough grunt to provide an exhilarating experience behind the wheel due to the high-output electric motor. The FCV’s external power feeding inverter allows it to function as a mobile power plant that generates and provides electricity to a community in case of a power outage. Just plug your house into the FCV and it becomes your mobile generator. Honda has just given new meaning to the plug-and- play norm.
Other innovative mobility vehicles at the Honda booth were the Wander Stand, a concept designed to pursue the joy of freedom and mobility; and the Honda Project 2&4 powered by RC213V, a design concept that fuses the values of two and four wheel mobility. Both concept cars debuted at the Frankfurt Motor Show last September. “We are driven by the Power of Dreams, and we will continue to create new mobility and offer dream inspiring products for the global market for them to experience the joy of freedom, environment friendly mobility in a clean and green society,” says Kuwahara. At hindsight, the “Power of Dreams” is all about electric cars.