And the lady-biker that worked in the office next to his in this particular office was straight and had a thing for short chubby geeky guys.

Things are more interesting than they first appear. Just enough people match the stereotype to keep it alive, though.

As far as the EV-N goes. Well, maybe one of Honda’s little humanoid robots might look good in one, but no carbon based life form would.

No, what I would guess it will be like the system Subaru was thinking about but then never really pursued which cleverly placed electric motors around a conventional drivetrain.

Imagine a conventional clutch/transmission drivetrain with an electric motor stuck somewhere after the clutch yet before the actual transmission part, and add a motor on the rear wheels.
Now you can have 3 operating modes for the front, and the rear is always electric.
For the front you can:
Open the clutch: Engine disengaged, electric drive of wheels
Close the clutch: transmission in neutral: Engine driving generator only for charging (drive coming from rear wheel electric motor).
Close the clutch: engage the transmission: Engine driving wheels, electric motor either charging or driving, depending on control.

A variant would be even simpler to just sandwich an Honda style IMA where the electric motor replaces the flywheel, but then you’d lose the ability to stop the motor entirely while using the front electric motor. I suspect that a larger rear motor would be more likely specified in that scenario if you really wanted electric operation.

Subaru was actually postulating that variant and a big motor at the output end of the transmission and the AWD supplied by their normal AWD. Still, you can do a lot with a conventional system supplemented by electric motors rather than going to the Prius approach.