ZDX and Type S To Be Acura’s First Pure EVs in 2024

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Acura today announced that its first full-electric SUV coming to market in 2024 will be named the Acura ZDX. Acura will also launch with a ZDX Type S performance variant. The ZDX will be the first production model to use many of the styling themes of the new Acura design direction introduced during Monterey Car Week in the form of the Acura Precision EV Concept.

Well, yes but largish ZDX is being co-developed with GM using the highly flexible global EV platform powered by Ultium batteries. What fun for brand managers – a common platform for Cadillac and Acura SUVs? Acura eventually will launch additional EV models starting in 2026 based on the company’s own global e:Architecture. (AutoInformed: GM, Honda to Develop New EVs for Sale in 2027; Honda Prologue EV – Vapor Ware Until 2024)

“The Acura ZDX represents the start to what will be an accelerated path toward electrification by the end of the decade and the key role the Acura brand will play in our company’s global goal to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050,” said Emile Korkor, assistant vice president of Acura National Sales. “Acura will remain focused on performance in the electrified era and Type S will continue to represent the pinnacle of this direction.”

GM and Honda have developed a working relationship over many years, including several nascent projects focused on electric and autonomous vehicle technologies:

• In 2013, the two companies began working together on the co-development of a next-generation fuel cell system and hydrogen storage technologies.
• In 2018, Honda joined GM’s EV battery module development efforts.
• In 2020, GM and Honda announced plans to co-develop two EVs, including the Honda Prologue, to be launched in early 2024, soon followed by Acura’s first EV SUV.
• The companies also have an ongoing relationship with Cruise and are working together on the development of the Cruise Origin, one of the first purpose-built fully autonomous vehicles designed for driverless ride-hail and delivery.