Sony Honda Mobility (SHM), on Thursday, announced its new brand ‘Afeela’ and unveiled a new type of mobility prototype. The prototype EV will come equipped with 45 cameras and sensors inside and outside the vehicle, with 800 tera operations per second (TOPS) of computing power. According to Yasuhide Mizuno, the representative director, chairman and CEO of Sony Honda Mobility Inc., the car will use the ‘Unreal Engine’ 3-D creation tool from Epic Games, the maker of the “Fortnite” series of games.
“Pre-orders are planned to begin in the first half of 2025, sales by the end of 2025, and delivery from spring in 2026 in North America,” Mizuno added.