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Honda is celebrating two significant achievements that highlight its approach to modern mobility, with the new Super-N recognised for its value at the 2026 What Car? Electric Car Awards, while Honda has also become the world’s first organisation to receive the highest five-star rating from the FIA Road Safety Index.
The Honda Super-N was named Best Value Car at the What Car? Electric Car Awards, recognising its combination of affordability, practicality and electric performance. Priced from £18,995, the compact EV has been designed to make electric driving more accessible, combining its small dimensions with efficient use of space, modern technology and an engaging driving experience.
The Super-N brings Honda’s interpretation of the Japanese ‘kei’ car philosophy to the UK, offering a compact footprint that is well suited to congested urban environments while retaining the equipment, practicality and driving enjoyment expected from a Honda.
Commenting on the award, Steve Huntingford, Editor of What Car?, highlighted the Super-N’s ability to combine its compact dimensions and affordable price without feeling compromised, describing it as “very well equipped and surprisingly practical” while also being more fun to drive than many small EVs.
Michael Doyle, Head of Automobile at Honda Motor Europe (UK), said the recognition was a strong endorsement of Honda’s electrification ambitions, adding: “The Super-N demonstrates our commitment to delivering practical, enjoyable and accessible electric vehicles.” He also highlighted the model’s ability to deliver value while remaining true to Honda’s reputation for quality, innovation and fun.
The recognition comes as Honda continues to expand its electrified vehicle offering, with the Super-N providing a smaller and more accessible option for customers considering the switch to electric. Its combination of affordability, compact dimensions and everyday usability makes it particularly suited to drivers looking for an EV for urban and shorter-distance driving.
Alongside the Super-N’s success, Honda has achieved a significant milestone in road safety, becoming the first company to receive a five-star rating in the products/services category of the FIA Road Safety Index. The Index is designed to help businesses and organisations measure, manage and improve their road safety footprint across their operations.
The latest achievement builds on Honda becoming the first company in the automotive industry to receive the Index’s previous three-star rating in 2025. Following the FIA’s expansion of the framework from three to five stars, Honda broadened the scope of its assessment to 17 countries, representing more than 90% of its global sales volume for motorcycles and automobiles.
The FIA assessment recognised a number of Honda’s initiatives, including its long-term approach to road safety, tracking of traffic collision fatalities and injuries, monitoring of progress against safety targets and the global application of advanced safety technologies. Honda’s efforts to develop an organisation-wide safety culture and proactively disclose information relating to traffic safety were also highlighted.
The FIA’s President, H.E. Mohammed Ben Sulayem, congratulated Honda on becoming the first organisation to achieve the new five-star rating, describing road safety as “one of the world’s most urgent challenges” and highlighting the importance of businesses and organisations taking greater responsibility for their impact on road safety.
Willem Groenewald, FIA Secretary General for Automobile Mobility, Sustainability and Tourism, said the expanded five-star Index would help make road safety a more measurable part of corporate decision-making. He added that Honda’s achievement “demonstrates the level of ambition we want the Index to inspire.”
Honda’s approach is underpinned by its global “Safety for Everyone” philosophy, which looks beyond the safety of individual vehicles to consider everyone sharing the road. The company is targeting a 50% reduction in traffic collision fatalities involving Honda motorcycles and automobiles by 2030, compared with 2020, before aiming to achieve zero traffic collision fatalities involving Honda motorcycles and automobiles worldwide by 2050.
Mikhiito Kojima, Assistant Vice President and General Manager of Traffic Safety Promotion Operations at Honda Motor Co., Ltd., described the five-star rating as “an important milestone” towards the company’s longer-term safety ambitions. He emphasised that Honda’s goal goes beyond developing safer products, with the company also focused on understanding how collisions occur, promoting safer driving and riding practices, and continually improving its safety technologies.
Together, the two achievements demonstrate Honda’s focus on two important areas of its future mobility strategy: making electrified vehicles more accessible while continuing to raise standards around road safety. From the affordable Super-N to its global safety initiatives, Honda is continuing to develop products and practices designed around the needs of drivers, riders and everyone who shares the road.