Honda And IED To Unveil TOMO Small Electric Concept In Geneva

Among the many upcoming concept vehicles sure to be present at this year’s Geneva Motor Show in March will be the TOMO. It’s a 1:1 scale concept made by the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) as a thesis project for transportation design master students, in partnership with Honda.

The TOMO, which in Japanese means “Friend”, measures 3,997 mm (157.3 inches) in length, 1,893 mm (74.5 inches) in width, 1,556 mm (61.2 inches) in height and has a 2,690 mm (105.9 inch) wheelbase.

It’s also meant to have electric propulsion, as you might expect from a car designed for the year 2025.

All about balance

A total of 13 IED Master students worked on this project, aiming to build a car that combines the need for “leisure time outside the city with the business demands of the city.” As a faithful companion of sorts, the TOMO was designed to adapt to its users wishes and needs.

While that tiny model in the gallery below isn’t much to look at, it does help us get an idea of what to expect – a sort of MPV with what we assume will be a spacious, perhaps lounge-like interior where occupants can relax.

During the sketching phase, the team used a comic storyboard design in order to figure out what the car should look like. The main exterior concept idea came from one Ricardo Alejandro Campos Ortega of Mexico, while the interior was drawn up by Rudraksh Banerjie of India.

Other students involved on the project were:

Tanmay Madhukar Chavan (India), Michele Corneliani (Italy), Shobhanjit Das (India), Alexander Marcel Fröse (Germany), Xiaole Ge (China), Ramon Emmanuel Hernandez Cortes (Mexico), Tianchen Huang (China), Sameer Aminullah Khan (India), Saketh Nalla (India), Jay Shrikant Nibandhe (India) and Yu-Jie Wang (Taiwan).

The 89th Geneva International Motor Show will take place between 7-17 of March.