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Future models - Honda - ZeroHonda 0 Series BEVs bound for AustraliaAustralia will get at least one of Honda’s ultra-futuristic 0 Series electric cars5 Aug 2025 By TONY O'KANE IN JUST a couple of years, Honda Australia could go from offering zero electric cars to having the Zero electric car in local showrooms.
With slick styling that looks straight out of science fiction, Honda’s 0 Series (pronounced ‘zero series’) was officially announced at the beginning of 2024 at the Consumer Electronics Show with a pair of digital concepts – the 0 Saloon and 0 Space-Hub – setting the tone for Honda’s future-facing family of high-technology flagships.
Honda’s Australian outpost has now confirmed that the 0 Series will be headed our way, with the 0 SUV concept unveiled earlier this year providing the clearest clue as to what customers can expect.
Speaking to the media in Melbourne last week, Honda Australia automotive director Robert Thorp, said that while the company’s mid-term plan is to go hybrid-heavy with a predominantly petrol-electric portfolio, the arrival of new battery electric vehicle (BEV) options would take its percentage of electrified vehicles even higher.
“Consumers, I think, will still want hybrids en masse, that’s where the market is going to be,” he said.
“Eighty per cent of our product will be hybrid or electrified in nature by then, so for us that’s really important. Beyond 2026 and into 2027 … new models, new nameplates, new segments, is what we’ve been looking to, and so we have a plan to expand the product breadth in the offering we have in the market.
“Now, within that is the Honda 0 Series. We are intending to bring that to market as well. Timing, of where and availability, product, etc, is not yet confirmed, and we’re working our way through that.”
Mr Thorp and Honda Australia’s product planners will have a few options to select from. The 0 Saloon – a sleek sedan – and the 0 Space-Hub – a one-box people mover – may have been the concepts that kicked off the 0 Series in 2024 but this year's 2025 CES event saw Honda wheel out a third body style: a high-riding SUV.
The 0 SUV is expected to be the first to go down the production line, given the 2025 CES concept was exhibited in near-production form, but it’s anticipated that Honda will grow the 0 Series family further in coming years.
“We are at the moment looking at all of them (Saloon, Space-Hub and SUV),” Mr Thorp said.
“We haven’t been able to confirm what’s locked in just yet, but we want them all.”
“They’re all going to play a different role, achieve a different customer segmentation, but we think that what you see is available to us and where it’s going … we think that sort of technology-led vehicle are the products we want to market.”
And technology will definitely be the focus of the 0 Series product line.
Besides being exclusively electrically-powered and built off a new Honda-developed lightweight BEV architecture, the 0 Series will also form a platform for Honda to bring its most advanced driver-assist tech to market, including integrated lidar sensors to support self-drive functions (with up to Level 3 autonomy being targeted) as well as AI-enhanced computing to help it navigate safely.
While Honda has confirmed its first all-electric vehicle will arrive in Australia in the second half of 2026, it will not be a 0 Series product.
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