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CTOnews.com, Oct. 19 (Xinhua)-- Sony Honda Mobile Travel (Sony Honda Mobility), a company funded by Sony and Honda, unveiled its first model, the AFEELA, for the first time in Japan on Tuesday, local time.

According to the Nikkei News today, Koizumi Kawanishi, president of Sony Honda Mobile, said at a press conference that other companies and developers can easily develop a variety of software that runs on AFEELA. The company's goal is to build a business model that makes money from continuous fee revenue in addition to selling vehicles, and hopes to make more money by "accepting content purchases" and "driving assistance applications." President Izumi Kawanishi said that the value of hardware may be high at first, but the value of services and software will continue to increase.

▲ picture shows the Nikkei Chinese website related report CTOnews.com Note: the profit model involved here can be called "software-defined car" (SDV), which refers to the ability to provide sustainable profitable services after the sale of vehicles.

The car was unveiled at the CES 2023 exhibition at the beginning of this year with a simple streamlined design and a number of popular appearance or functional configurations such as no door knob, electronic rearview mirror, lidar and so on. The new car, manufactured by Honda's North American plant, will be ordered online in 2025 and delivered in North America and Japan in the spring and second half of 2026, respectively.

The length of the car 4895mm, wide 1900mm, high 1460mm, wheelbase 3000mm, using all-wheel drive form, the front face is equipped with a unique "Media Bar", in addition to displaying the car logo, it can also display different contents, including charging progress.

The car will be equipped with 45 cameras and sensors, an overlong integrated central control screen, entertainment features such as Sony's film and television, music and games, mobile platforms such as Qualcomm Snapdragon digital chassis, and Epic's Unreal engine 5.

In addition, the car will be equipped with Qualcomm chips and have L3-level self-driving capability.

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