Honda's Retro Styled EV-N Concept

[rfernatt]

All electric EV-N Concept by Honda

The 3-door hatch, which is about the same size as the Smart Fortwo has another very interesting feature up its sleeve. If you look at the passenger door (from the inside), you can notice a U3-X unicycle that is neatly placed – how cool is that?! At the motor show, the concept will be placed within an exhibition area called “HELLO!” (Honda Electric mobility Loop) – that will showcase various mobility products.

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Honda's U3-X: A Geek-Friendly Unicycle
JR Raphael
Sep 24, 2009 5:11 pm

Gentlemen, start your incredibly lazy engines: Honda has a new answer for those of us too tired to get off our keisters. Meet the U3-X "personal mobility device," a unicycle-like ride that makes heading into the kitchen for pie as easy as -- well, pie.

The Harmonious Honda U3-X
Sure to excite mall cops everywhere, the Honda U3-X makes the Segway look like an outdated piece of junk that no one in their right mind would ride. (Actually, the Segway already looked like that. Disregard.) The device is a 2-foot tall infinity-symbol lookalike with two pull-out pads for your tuchas. Marketed as a mobility device that "co-exists in harmony with people" -- yes, seriously -- the U3-X lets you hop a squat and zip around a room simply by shifting your body weight.

Honda says its U3-X allows for "free movement" in any direction, be it forward-backward, side-to-side, or on a diagonal. And the more you lean, the faster you go. At least, until the battery runs out (or someone sees you on this thing and proceeds to beat the living daylights out of you).

The Honda U3-X weighs about 22 pounds and is said to run for an hour on each charge. It'll officially debut at the 41st Tokyo Motor Show next month, after which it'll presumably be ridiculed and then promptly forgotten.

[BigWarpGuy]

I think the Honda EV-N concept is really nice. It looks more like a Crossblade than the Fortwo.

[Big Panda]

LOL.....the EV-N looks like a combination of a Passion and a Fiat 500.

[pghjake]

I vote for Fiat 500 as well

[chieftmc]

it looks more like the old N-600

[DoraAnderson]

Originally Posted by chieftmc

it looks more like the old N-600

That's exactly what I was thinking!

[BigWarpGuy]

Usually the older one is smaller but the newer one looks smaller.

[packetandy]

Talk about small - I once got a ride in one of the N600s in the back - my feet only fit if I turned then sideways like Charley Chaplin . but it did have a back seat of sorts....

[esugrad]

I owned anew N600 back in 1972, Magna Red, it was interesting to drive with the front wheel drive, power front disc brakes, and a manual choke. That was fun. One day, in Omaha, I was ion my way to work. I came to an intersection, tapped the brakes, hit a patch of ice and did 2 360s without leaving thelane. Great fun!