Sony to place PS5 in Honda EV? JV automobile coming in 2025

Sony to place a PlayStation 5 in its upcoming EV co-developed with Honda? Sounds loopy, however they’ve stated it! First, some context. Sony and Honda has joined arms to penetrate the electrical car market, and the 50:50 JV firm, Sony Honda Mobility (SHM), was formally established final month.

The fruit of that marriage, an EV, will likely be open for pre-orders earlier than the tip of 2025, adopted by the primary deliveries for US prospects in spring 2026. Deliveries in Japan will begin within the second half of the identical yr, in response to SHM. The primary product will likely be manufactured at a Honda manufacturing facility in North America. Not so quickly then.

Again to the half in regards to the PS5 (or PS6 by the point the EV is prepared?), which is a part of leisure on the go and a extra entertainment-driven car. In an interview with the Monetary Instances, picked up by IGN Southeast Asia, president and COO of SHM Izumi Kawanishi stated it’s doable to combine the PS5 into automobiles. The console and different Sony companies are a part of a larger imaginative and prescient to make a extra entertainment-driven car.

Sony Honda Mobility teaser of an EV that will likely be unveiled in January 2023

“Sony has content material, companies and leisure applied sciences that transfer individuals. We’re adapting these belongings to mobility, and that is our power in opposition to Tesla,” Kawanishi instructed FT. SHM CEO Yasuhide Mizuno added that future {hardware} “will cater to the leisure and community we wish to supply.”

The primary time Sony confirmed its intention to enter the automobile scene was at CES 2020, the place it unveiled the Imaginative and prescient-S. The idea automobile was filled with an array of cameras, screens, autonomous driving capabilities, in addition to streaming companies for Sony’s multimedia catalogue and the flexibility to attach a PlayStation gaming console. Two years later, Sony wheeled out the Imaginative and prescient-S 02 idea, a seven-seater. The sedan was then renamed Imaginative and prescient-S 01.

Though Sony initially stated it is not going to produce automobiles for mass consumption, it had been conducting highway assessments, and it later emerged that the electronics and leisure large was searching for an automotive companion to commercialise its EV venture. In got here Honda. The SHM idea will make its debut on January 4, 2023, in Las Vegas. Click on on the hyperlinks to learn extra on Sony’s strikes, in chronological order.

GALLERY: Sony Imaginative and prescient-S 01

GALLERY: Sony Imaginative and prescient-S 02