Japan – Fastport eQuad, Flagship Product from New Honda Business Venture, Wins “Red Dot: Best of the Best 2025” Award in Red Dot Award: Design Concept

Fastport eQuad, Flagship Product from New Honda Business Venture, Wins “Red Dot: Best of the Best 2025” Award in Red Dot Award: Design Concept

TOKYO, Japan, August 6, 2025 – (JCN Newswire)— Honda today revealed that the Fastport eQuad, an all-electric micromobility automobile for last-mile shipment, has actually won the Red Dot: Best of the Best 2025 award in the Design Concept competitors of the Red Dot Design Award * 1. 2 electrical motorbike principle designs, the EV Fun Concept and the EV Urban Concept, were each called a Red Dot winner in the exact same competitors, and the idea film for the Honda V3 motorbike engine, entitled “New V3 Engine Concept Teaser,” was called the Red Dot winner in the Brand & & Communication Design competitors.

About the Honda acclaimed designs and principle motion picture

Fastport eQuad

The Fastport eQuad is a single-rider micromobility shipment automobile that supplements the rider’s pedaling power with electrical motor help. The Fastport eQuad recognizes an effective, smooth, peaceful and zero-emission trip by integrating a pedal-by-wire system, which digitally transfers the rider’s pedaling input to the driving force, with a pedal-assist powertrain, which improves the rider’s pedaling with electrical power. Honda developed the Fastport eQuad as a micromobility automobile for usage in bike lanes * 2, making it possible for business to enhance the speed and performance of logistics in city locations with intricate traffic environments and rush hour blockage. Full-blown mass production of the Fastport eQuad is arranged to start in the summer season of 2026 at a U.S. Honda center.

Secret style includes

The Fastport eQuad not just includes a smooth style, however it is likewise attentively crafted to make sure consistency with the real-world environments where it will be utilized. While utilizing a bike as a concept, the style efficiently integrates transparent products to allow the rider to intuitively acknowledge pedestrians and other roadway conditions in the surrounding location. The clear windscreen guarantees exceptional exposure for the rider while likewise offering a view of the rider from the exterior. A clear freight container was embraced to decrease the visual volume of the Fastport eQuad.

EV Fun Concept

The EV Fun Concept is Honda’s very first electrical sports design and is being established as a next-generation electrical bike that uses a brand-new experience of peaceful riding and a psychological sensation special to electrical bikes. In addition to the high level of”riding, turning, and stopping”developed by long-developed Honda motorbike innovations, the brand-new peaceful, vibration-free trip that is just possible with electrical power and the slim, easy-to-manage chassis plan understood by its set battery will supply a brand-new psychological experience that is extremely various to internal combustion engine (ICE) motorbikes. The production design based upon this idea design will be a naked sports design comparable to a mid-sized (ICE) bike and is set up to go on sale before completion of the existing (ending March 31, 2026) as the very first Honda electrical sports design geared up with a repaired battery.

Secret style includes

The EV Fun Concept includes a slim and smooth style that reveals its peaceful yet frustrating velocity and stylish riding efficiency. By decreasing the volume of the location where a gas tank would have been for an ICE design, a vibrant and horizontally-oriented shape was understood. The EV Fun Concept was created as a bike that is not bound by existing motorbike classifications. The practical charm was highlighted through the mix of a streamlined body and mechanical practical parts.

EV Urban Concept

The EV Urban Concept rebuilds from scratch the Honda vision of what city electrical movement must be. Including an user-friendly human-machine user interface( HMI )and the combination of software application and hardware, the EV Urban Concept uses a brand-new experience for riders. The objective of Honda is to provide the flexibility of movement to as lots of clients as possible and to broaden possibilities in each consumer’s life through improved movement.

Secret style includes

Based upon the style instructions for Honda electrical motorbikes– the Precision of Intrinsic Design– the style group made every effort to develop a necessary and elegant styling style understood by fine-tuning the performance. Including minimalist and advanced styling that mixes in with the city landscape, the EV Urban Concept uses a brand-new UX through the blend of software application and hardware, embodying the Honda vision of near-future movement that complies and resonates with individuals and society.

Honda V3 bike engine with an electrical compressor

In order to develop appealing bike items that exceed client expectations, Honda is establishing the world’s very first * 3 V3 motorbike engine with an electrical compressor. By managing compression of the consumption air regardless of engine rpm, high-response torque can be provided even from lower rpm. In addition, the adoption of the engineering style that does not need an intercooler for the cooling of the compressors enables a high degree of flexibility for part design within the restricted area readily available on a bike, which can be leveraged to accomplish a concentration of the mass and decrease of the automobile weight.

Secret functions of the principle film, “New V3 Engine Concept Teaser”

This idea motion picture showcases the journey of technological development Honda has actually pursued through constant obstacles in the field of bike innovations, in addition to the advancement procedure for the world’s very first V3 motorbike engine with an electrical compressor. With a rhythmically structured story, the film intentionally includes problem impacts that briefly interrupt the image to promote the audience’s interest and anticipation. In the last scene of the film, the real noise of the electrical compressor is utilized to communicate a sense of enjoyment and momentum of the advancement towards the useful application to items and stimulate high expectations for the future riding experiences this engine will use. To strongly reveal the “authentic dedication of Honda to take the future,” all people included in this motion picture are genuine Honda engineers. Through using genuine video footage revealing many conversations and duplicated prototyping that happened at the website of the advancement, the motion picture production group aimed to communicate the enthusiasm and aspiration Honda took into the advancement.

Idea film, “New V3 Engine Concept Teaser”

Remarks by Toshinobu Minami, Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer, Design Center, Honda R&D Co., Ltd.

“We are deeply honored to get the award not just in the Design Concept competitors, following in 2015’s acknowledgment for the Honda 0 Series, however likewise in the Brand & & Communication competitors of the internationally acknowledged Red Dot Design Award. Our company believe this acknowledgment shows the high regard for the continuous efforts of Honda Design that continues to produce brand-new worth while aiming to acquire deep insights into modifications taking place in our organization environment, the times and varied way of lives of individuals. Honda will pursue styles in addition to a vast array of brand-new worth production to continue to provide movement items that bring surprise and motivation to individuals’s lives.”

Honda Design award history
https://global.honda/jp/design/work/#award (Japanese)
https://global.honda/en/design/work/#award (English)

* 1 The Red Dot Award was established in 1955 and has actually turned into one of the most highly regarded style awards worldwide. The award is administered by Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. For the Product Design competitors, 51 classifications of commercial items are evaluated on 9 requirements consisting of the degree of development, performance, toughness and ergonomics.
* 2 The meaning and requirements for “bike lanes” differ by nation. The Fastport eQuad is developed for bike lanes as specified by U.S. and European traffic systems, which might vary from the meaning in the Japanese traffic system.
* 3 Honda internal research study