Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Director, President and Consultant, Toshihiro Mibe held a press convention at present, on the JAPAN MOBILITY SHOW 2023.

* About JAPAN MOBILITY SHOW What was once the Tokyo Motor Present is now “reborn” because the JAPAN MOBILITY SHOW, which is able to supply an thrilling look into the way forward for not solely vehicles and bikes, however a broader vary of mobility merchandise, companies and applied sciences.?Honda is an organization that began off with bikes, however has been increasing the lineup of its mobility merchandise to incorporate vehicles, and now plane and extra. In mild of the evolution of the “Tokyo Motor Present” into the “JAPAN MOBILITY SHOW,” on the Honda sales space, we will likely be exhibiting not solely vehicles however various types of present and future mobility that Honda is pursuing.?We provide guests the chance to expertise the longer term mobility Honda goals of, and likewise to take part in creating the longer term mobility with us.

* Our ardour behind the Honda International Model Slogan, “The Energy of Goals — How we transfer you.” This yr, Honda is celebrating its seventy fifth anniversary. Once we look again on our historical past of providing a variety of worth to our clients and society as a producer of mobility merchandise, we will say that Honda has grown up to now whereas all the time being pushed by “goals,” and taking over challenges to appreciate what was regarded as inconceivable.?The Energy of Goals – How we transfer you. – That is the Honda International Model Slogan, which conveys the message that the goals of each one working at Honda have all the time been the driving pressure of Honda, and a wide range of mobility services and products Honda creates with such energy of goals will transfer folks bodily, transfer folks’s hearts, and assist many individuals notice their goals in order that there will likely be an expanse of goals towards the longer term.?We picked the “Honda Dream Loop” as our sales space theme to specific the longer term, towards which the goals of many individuals will type an limitless loop and proceed increasing, ranging from mobility services and products that embody Honda’s goals.

* Worth proposition distinctive solely to Honda – “Transcend” and “Increase” The mobility services and products that embody Honda’s goals will allow folks to “transcend varied constraints similar to time and place,” and to “increase their skills and potentialities.” These two are important values of all forms of mobility services and products Honda has been providing for the previous 75 years since its founding, and the worth Honda desires to proceed providing now and sooner or later.?Mobility allows us to see new environment, meet new folks and uncover new issues, which expands the world we stay in. Alternatively, mobility faces varied constraints. It could take a very long time simply to get to the vacation spot, and we regularly can’t do anything throughout that point. Or, we can’t even get to some locations resulting from a scarcity of the right technique of transportation. Honda desires to allow folks to transcend such constraints, and we need to proceed providing the enjoyment and freedom of mobility into the longer term.?By utilizing new mobility services and products on the will of the person, we will go quicker and farther. We will go to locations the place we can’t get to solely with human means. New mobility services and products will allow folks to do issues that weren’t potential earlier than. That’s the worth of “augmenting folks’s potentialities.”?On the Honda sales space, we’re exhibiting varied mobility merchandise and applied sciences which is able to allow folks to “transcend varied constraints similar to time and place,” and to “increase their skills and potentialities.” Let me introduce a few of them.

Mobility services and products allow folks to transcend varied constraints similar to time, place and restricted sources

* Cruise Origin autonomous automobile will allow folks to transcend the constraint of time Because the inside area of this automobile may be utterly personal, the customers can use their journey time extra freely, similar to holding a gathering or having a enjoyable time with the household with out worrying about different folks round them. This automobile will certainly allow us to transcend the constraints of time. Time is an absolute constraint for most individuals. Mobility services and products which allow folks to make use of the restricted time given equally to all folks – 24 hours a day, three hundred and sixty five days a yr – extra effectively for extra significant issues, will supply an amazing worth for folks. ?Along with GM and Cruise, Honda is planning to launch a driverless ridehail service utilizing the Cruise Origin, in Japan in early 2026.

* Honda eVTOL and HondaJet will develop the mobility three-dimensionally into the skies and allow folks to transcend the constraints of place and distance Once we can mix these plane with mobility methods on the bottom and allow folks to journey extra freely and seamlessly on the bottom, within the ocean and within the skies, the hurdles folks face in long-distance touring will likely be lowered. This might make it simpler for folks to stay in a nature-rich suburban space and work within the cities solely when mandatory. This might be described as “transcending the constraints of place and distance.” This three-dimensional and seamless mobility will assist folks stay extra pleasant lives with higher work-life stability.

* SUSTAINA-C Idea will allow folks to transcend the constraints of restricted sources Mobility merchandise are constructed from a wide range of supplies, together with metals, resins and materials. Nonetheless, these supplies and sources are restricted. If we solely use present methods of constructing merchandise and recycling, there’ll, in the end, come a time when it would turn into troublesome to maintain our manufacturing of mobility merchandise. ?This SUSTAINA-C Idea is a automotive fabricated from acrylic resin that’s recycled and reused. This sort of useful resource circulation will allow us to transcend the constraints of the restricted availability of sources, and obtain each environmental sustainability and the enjoyment and freedom of mobility lengthy into the longer term.

Mobility merchandise designed to enhance folks’s skills and potentialities

* Honda Avatar Robotic and the UNI-ONE will increase folks’s skills and potentialities By logging in and remotely controlling Honda Avatar Robotic in a distant location, we will carry out duties and expertise issues remotely as if we’re there in individual. Using Honda Avatar Robotic will allow all folks, together with those that have restricted mobility resulting from varied constraints, to play lively roles from a distant location. And this UNI-ONE is a mobility gadget the person can steer just by shifting their physique weight whereas sitting with out utilizing arms and thus carry out sure duties whereas transferring. The UNI-ONE will develop alternatives for customers with mobility challenges.

* Honda CI-MEV self-driving micro-mobility automobile will increase the residing radius for folks As folks become older, driving and strolling would possibly turn into troublesome. And there are individuals who stay in areas the place no public transportation is out there. Such folks are inclined to have a restricted residing radius. If there are merchandise that provide easily-accessible, last-mile mobility, folks can go locations, farther, quicker and extra casually. And if everybody can get pleasure from mobility extra freely and develop their residing radius, they’ll have extra likelihood to satisfy new folks, which we imagine will increase folks’s potentialities. ?I may solely introduce so many, however there are a lot of different gadgets on show on the Honda sales space, please get pleasure from taking a look at all of them, which signify the longer term Honda envisions!

* Creating our “dream mobility” by means of a Generative AI-powered expertise   At this yr’s Honda sales space, we aren’t solely showcasing the longer term mobility Honda goals of. We want to invite guests to our web site or on the sales space to take part in our Dream Loop. ?At Honda, we started utilizing generative AI to assist the power of our designers to exhibit their creativity. At this Japan Mobility Present, generative AI will generate design drawings of future mobility you dream of and challenge them on the “Loop Display” inside our sales space. ?My dream is to appreciate a world the place mobility merchandise bearing the Honda brand are touring all around the globe, on the bottom, within the ocean, within the skies and into outer area, and individuals are having fun with the true freedom of mobility. So, let me enter concepts of my dream mobility. ?Like mine, your dream mobility will likely be visualized. We’re considering that, after the Present, we’ll choose just a few and have Honda designers work on them. Please come go to the Honda sales space and have enjoyable drawing your dream mobility.

* Prelude Idea will take the “pleasure of driving” into the full-fledged electrified future I’ve launched among the mobility merchandise that embody Honda’s goals, which signify the Honda of at present and the longer term. However we all know our clients predict yet one more factor from Honda, and that’s sports activities fashions. ?On the car electrification enterprise briefing we held final yr, I talked about future sports activities fashions. As we speak, to conclude my presentation, I want to present you one in all them – the specialty sports activities mannequin. ?Everybody, that is the Prelude Idea. ?Honda has all the time been dedicated to creating sporty automobiles. And the phrase “prelude” means an “introductory or previous efficiency.” This mannequin will turn into the prelude for our future fashions which is able to inherit the “pleasure of driving” into the full-fledged electrified future and embody Honda’s unalterable sports activities mindset. The Prelude Idea is a specialty sports activities mannequin that can supply exhilarating expertise that makes you need to maintain going endlessly and extraordinary pleasure you by no means felt earlier than. ?With the intention to supply the “pleasure of driving” solely Honda can notice, we’re diligently progressing with growth, so please maintain your expectations excessive for this mannequin.