IN JUST a few years, Honda Australia might go from providing zero electrical automobiles to having the Zero electrical automobile in native showrooms.
With slick styling that appears straight out of science fiction, Honda’s 0 Collection (pronounced ‘zero collection’) was formally introduced initially of 2024 on the Shopper Electronics Present with a pair of digital ideas – the 0 Saloon and 0 House-Hub – setting the tone for Honda’s future-facing household of high-technology flagships.
Honda’s Australian outpost has now confirmed that the 0 Collection will likely be headed our means, with the 0 SUV idea unveiled earlier this 12 months offering the clearest clue as to what prospects can anticipate.
Talking to the media in Melbourne final week, Honda Australia automotive director Robert Thorp, stated that whereas the corporate’s mid-term plan is to go hybrid-heavy with a predominantly petrol-electric portfolio, the arrival of latest battery electrical car (BEV) choices would take its share of electrified autos even increased.
“Shoppers, I believe, will nonetheless need hybrids en masse, that’s the place the market goes to be,” he stated.
“Eighty per cent of our product will likely be hybrid or electrified in nature by then, so for us that’s actually vital. Past 2026 and into 2027 … new fashions, new nameplates, new segments, is what we’ve been trying to, and so we have now a plan to develop the product breadth within the providing we have now out there.
“Now, inside that’s the Honda 0 Collection. We’re aspiring to carry that to market as nicely. Timing, of the place and availability, product, and many others, shouldn’t be but confirmed, and we’re working our means via that.”
Mr Thorp and Honda Australia’s product planners may have just a few choices to pick from. The 0 Saloon – a glossy sedan – and the 0 House-Hub – a one-box folks mover – could have been the ideas that kicked off the 0 Collection in 2024 however this 12 months’s 2025 CES occasion noticed Honda wheel out a 3rd physique model: a high-riding SUV.
The 0 SUV is predicted to be the primary to go down the manufacturing line, given the 2025 CES idea was exhibited in near-production type, nevertheless it’s anticipated that Honda will develop the 0 Collection household additional in coming years.
“We’re in the meanwhile taking a look at all of them (Saloon, House-Hub and SUV),” Mr Thorp stated.
“We haven’t been capable of verify what’s locked in simply but, however we would like all of them.”
“They’re all going to play a special position, obtain a special buyer segmentation, however we predict that what you see is obtainable to us and the place it’s going … we predict that kind of technology-led car are the merchandise we need to market.”
And know-how will certainly be the main target of the 0 Collection product line.
Apart from being completely electrically-powered and constructed off a brand new Honda-developed light-weight BEV structure, the 0 Collection can even type a platform for Honda to carry its most superior driver-assist tech to market, together with built-in lidar sensors to assist self-drive features (with as much as Degree 3 autonomy being focused) in addition to AI-enhanced computing to assist it navigate safely.
Whereas Honda has confirmed its first all-electric car will arrive in Australia within the second half of 2026, it won’t be a 0 Collection product.
Slightly, Mr Thorp stated that the native debut of its first 0 Collection car is slated to occur someday after 2027.
