Honda's Super N costs £18,999 in the UK, comes in exactly one specification, and is light enough that Everything Electric CARS spends much of its first drive review talking about weight. The presenter says it is around 200 kg lighter than the new Renault Twingo, a car already designed to be small and light, and that he saw 5 miles per kilowatt hour across an 80 mile run mostly on motorways at the legal limit. Most electric cars, he says, manage between two and four. The catch lands later in the video. Claimed range is 128 miles, which he estimates as roughly 110 in winter and 120 to 130 in summer, and the car charges at 50 kW at best.
The interesting thing about the Super N is what Honda decided not to spend money on. The video says it is a kei car in Japan, built to strict legal limits on length, width, height and weight, and that this one only breaks the box slightly because of its flared arches. Everything else follows. There is no satnav at all, so navigation means plugging in a phone. The presenter compares the sound of the front door closing to a delivery van. The seats are made from recycled Honda employee uniforms and part of the charge port surround from recycled Honda bumpers. What the video mentions but does not press on is the charging figure. A 50 kW peak means a rapid stop adds miles slowly, so the range number understates the long trip penalty rather than overstating it. Combine the two and the practical conclusion is that this is a car with a home charger attached, not one you take to motorway services.
On the road the presenter is unusually enthusiastic about small details. The regenerative braking paddles get the most praise. He says increasing regen with the paddle only applies while the car is actually slowing, and cancels the moment you touch the accelerator, so the car returns to freewheeling instead of dragging. He rates that as better resolved than the systems in cars he has driven previously, and points out it is easier on passengers. The boost button on the steering wheel gets the opposite verdict, described as pleasant but difficult to distinguish from normal driving. Adaptive cruise control, heated seats and a heated steering wheel are standard, since there is only one trim. The video says running the air conditioning at full blast during hot UK weather cost about two miles of indicated range, and that the range prediction tracked reality closely. His main irritation is having to press a button to switch the car on, and remembering to press it again to switch it off.
The design details he singles out are mostly about packaging. The charge port sits in the nose, which the presenter argues removes the guesswork about which side of a charging bay to park on, and the flap has an electronic catch he clearly enjoys operating. Manoeuvrability gets the same treatment: he says he parked outside a busy town square in a space no other car would have fitted. The video also sets the car against Honda's own history, arguing the earlier Honda e was technically impressive but compromised by range and price and did not sell, and that a cheap, light urban car is the more sensible second attempt. He notes that a city driver might only need to charge it once or twice a week.
Bottom line: Honda has built a genuinely good small car and given it enough range to be a second car and not one mile more. At £18,999 that is defensible, and 5 miles per kilowatt hour suggests the engineering is honest rather than cheap. But 128 miles claimed in 2026, on a 50 kW charger, is a choice rather than a technical limit, and it puts the Super N in a far smaller box than the car itself deserves. If you have a driveway and another vehicle, this looks like a delight. If it has to be the only car, it cannot be.
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