Sony Honda Mobility, a joint venture between the two companies that was trying to develop some electric cars, has been shut down, and the two vehicles they were working on shut down with them. One of those projects, the Afeela 1, was more affectionately known as the 'PlayStation Car'.
Luke Plunkett
As we reported earlier in the year--when I also said the car was "dead on arrival"--the Afeela 1 was a horrendously overpriced and dangerously under-specced electric car that was available to order in just one of the USA's 50 states. Its only notable feature was the fact that, thanks to Sony's involvement, you would have been able to play PlayStation games on the car's infotainment screens via a Remote Play app.
Would that have made up for the fact that the car charged too slow, couldn't go far enough, looked like shit, was missing tons of EV features that have been standard for years now and would have cost $90,000? Probably not!
The cancellation comes as Honda becomes the latest legacy automaker to try to make EVs, fail, panic and try to revert back to hybrids and ICE vehicles. It’s a move that will damn them in the short-term and damn them even more in the long-term, as the world continues its inexorable march towards driving cars that don't require an entire fossil fuel industry to make them move, and leaving those who weren't able to adapt and compete in the dust.
