Honda Malaysia says it received 200 bookings for the all-electric Honda e:N1 before the EV was officially introduced in Malaysia yesterday, priced at RM149,900 on-the-road without insurance. The company added that it expects to be able to clear its entire stock of the B-segment SUV by the end of the year, before the import duty and excise duty exemptions for CBU EVs ends on December 31, 2025.
“We are confident that we will be able to sell all the units allocated for the year,” said Honda Malaysia sales business unit VP Sunita Prabhakaran. While the company did not reveal how many units of the EV it hopes to shift, it did say that the e:N1 will be available only in a limited quantity, with the pricing for the car being on a first-come, first-served basis.
This suggests that stocks could be somewhere of the region of 500 units or less, which would make it possible for sales to be completed for the EV by year end, given the number of orders received for it so far. Incidentally, the first deliveries of the car are expected to begin in June.
The e:N1 is the first fully-electric vehicle to be sold by HM. Built on the automaker’s e:N Architecture F, with a HR-V skin, the EV utilises a single front motor producing 204 PS (150 kW) and 310 Nm of torque from 0-4,621 rpm. Performance figures include a zero to 100 km/h time of 7.7 seconds and a 160 km/h top speed.
A 96-cell 68.8 kWh nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery provides the car with a WLTP-rated range of 412 km on a single charge. The e:N1 supports DC CCS2 charging at up to 78 kW, where it takes around 45 minutes for the battery to be brought from a 10% to 80% state-of-charge. With AC, it will take the car’s 10 kW OBC arround six hours to completely fill the battery.
Available only from eight dealerships across the Peninsular, the e:N1’s battery and entire EV drive system is covered by an eight-year/160,000 km warranty.
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