Sony offers an in-car streaming service called RIDEVU with access to over 2,000 of its movies, which is currently offered on the VinFast VF 8. Neither of these are "new" trends in the automotive industry, but the Afeela will have a unique screen on the exterior that will display messages to other vehicles. So, that's something.

In a little over a year, Sony Honda Mobility expects to launch the Afeela 1, a battery-electric sedan that’s been very visibly half a decade in the making. When I ask CEO Yasuhide Mizuno about the challenges the joint venture has faced in its brief history,

Afeela is starting to become a little bit more than just a feeling. The electric vehicle, which is a joint venture between Sony and Honda, is finally available for preorder. And it only took five years to get here.