Production chronology1997–1999
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
Wikipedia infobox ↗3 years
← Honda
Honda / Model record
HondaEV Plus
Production1997–1999
Recorded originJapan
ClassConcept car
Background
The Honda EV Plus was an experimental electric vehicle which was the first battery electric vehicle from a major automaker that did not use lead–acid batteries. Roughly 340 EV Plus models were produced and released. Production of the EV Plus was discontinued in 1999 after Honda announced the release of its first hybrid electric vehicle, the Honda Insight.
Text adapted from “Honda EV Plus” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07
Chronology ledger
Dates with their meaning intact
US EPA model years1998–1999
Model years represented in FuelEconomy.gov; a US-market observation, not a worldwide production range.
EPA FuelEconomy.gov ↗Observed bounds
Swiss TAS/TARGA approval observations1997
Swiss type-approval years; approval dates are not production chronology.
Swiss ASTRA TAS/TARGA ↗1 year