【YouTube】Honda e: long-term test review

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There are few more interesting and exciting cars on sale than the Honda e. It looks great, is excellent fun to drive and is the perfect city runabout. If you can live with the limited range, you won’t be disappointed – we just hope we see more of this from Honda.

After eight months, my time with the little Honda e is up, so now I shall attempt to answer the question I posed last year: is it possible for someone with neither off-street parking  nor the ability to charge at home to run an electric car? In a word, yes, but it does require some compromise.

As for the Honda e itself, it’s a cracking little city car, and is the perfect retort to anyone who says electric cars are boring. First of all, look at it! I’ve never driven any car in my eight years at Auto Express that has generated so much interest from other road users and passers-by.

I’ll admit the Charge Yellow paintwork is a little bright, but this isn’t exactly a car that flies under the radar, so a bold colour suits its character pretty well. The proportions are perfect, the design is wonderful, while the cabin feels really special – and totally unlike anything we’ve ever seen from Honda.

Living with the little EV – and being able to charge it when I needed to – was less of a problem than I had anticipated. Living on the third floor of an apartment block meant I was fully reliant on public chargers, yet rarely was I ever forced into using anything other than the trio of Source London charge points at the end of my street.

On average, I’d charge the e once or twice a week at around £10 a pop, which would give me anywhere in the region of 90-120 miles, depending on the weather. I never had to wait for a charging bay, there was never a fault with any of the charge points, and the whole experience really was rather painless.

It might sound totally obvious, but it’s important to remember that if your lifestyle doesn’t suit a range of only 90-120 miles, then this really isn’t the EV for you. It’s fortunate that I often have access to a second car, thanks to all of the reviews and tests we create at Auto Express, so any longer trips I had to make could be done in that.

When I was forced into taking the Honda on trips in excess of 100 miles, they did require some patience and planning, relying on service-station charge points. But they’re not impossible – they just take a little longer.

However as a city car – which is what the e is – it really is easy to love and hard to fault. What still impresses me is the ride quality; there are executive saloons that don’t ride as well as the little Honda thanks to its highly sophisticated fully independent suspension system; it’s something you usually see on much larger and more expensive cars.

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