TOKYO — Sony Group and Honda Motor are preparing to take orders for their first electric vehicle, two and half years after the two icons of Japan Inc. first joined hands for the project.

Sony Honda Mobility (SHM) will showcase a prototype “equivalent” of its fully electric sedan, the Afeela, at the CES 2025 consumer tech show in Las Vegas, Nevada, next month, according to Izumi Kawanishi, president and chief operating officer of SHM.