Honda’s First Fit EV Delivered
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Last Friday, the city of Torrance, California took ownership of the first electric hatchback from Honda to be delivered: the Honda Fit EV, which represents the first step in Honda’s “electric vehicle demonstration program,” before the vehicle launches as a lease-option for drivers in California and Oregon later this summer.
The Fit EV was initially revealed last year at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show, along with the information that US customers will be able to lease the 2013-model-year car, which has a range of about 76 miles on electric power, beginning in the summer of 2012.
Sadly, Honda has no plans to ever offer the car for sale to the general public.
Sometime later this year, the city of Torrance will also be receiving a Honda plug-in hybrid for demonstration purposes, though that will likely be a mid-size sedan, since that’s the platform the automaker’s existing plug-in hybrid drivetrain has been engineered to fit.