Honda Patent Shows Design For New, Bubbly City EV.
The drawings hint at an updated version of either Honda’s Micro Commuter or the similar MC-β EV. Both of these vehicles were small, two-seat electric vehicles that were never produced in great numbers and were instead used for small field trials and to make appearances at auto shows. This new vehicle is designed to be, “mechanically strong, simple in structure and light in weight while requiring a minimum number of component parts.” There’s a hint of the Renault Twizy in the way the patent describes and illustrates the new EV: