{"id":75496,"date":"2024-08-09T12:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75496"},"modified":"2024-08-09T12:04:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:04:01","slug":"1144087_acura-s-first-ev-based-on-an-in-house-platform-is-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75496","title":{"rendered":"Acura&#8217;s first EV based on an in-house platform is coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>An electric SUV concept from Acura will preview a production model<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The production variant of the electric SUV will be built in Ohio<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The electric SUV will ride on Honda and Acura&#8217;s EV dedicated platform<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Acura will use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/monterey-car-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Monterey Car Week<\/a> on this month to present a concept previewing its <strong>next electric vehicle<\/strong>, an SUV to be built in the U.S. and using an in-house platform.<\/p>\n<p>A teaser photo released on Friday doesn&#8217;t show much but the wait for the full reveal won&#8217;t be long as Monterey Car Week runs Aug. 9-18. The annual California event is also where Acura rolled out the Precision EV two years ago, a concept that previewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1142061_2024-acura-zdx-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 2024 ZDX<\/a> currently on sale.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The platform underpinning Acura&#8217;s next EV won&#8217;t be in any way related to General Motors&#8217; Ultium EV platform and battery technology featured in the ZDX. It will be a new design developed with parent company Honda, which will use it for various EVs including the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1141967_honda-launches-0-ev-series-for-global-markets-at-2024-ces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">0 (Zero) Series EV family<\/a><\/strong> announced in January at 2024 CES.<\/p>\n<p>The platform will feature in-house developed software and be flexible enough to support vehicles in various segments, though the first vehicles will be in the \u201cmid-to-large\u201d segments, Honda has previously said. The targeted <strong>range will be 300 miles<\/strong> or more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100913330_m\" title=\"Honda 0 Saloon concept\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"Honda 0 Saloon concept\" width=\"640\" height=\"327\" class=\"first_image lazy\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"524\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/honda-0-saloon-concept_100913330_l.webp\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/honda-0-saloon-concept_100913330_h.webp\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/honda-0-saloon-concept_100913330_l.webp\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/honda-0-saloon-concept_100913330_l.webp\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/honda-0-saloon-concept_100913330_m.webp\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/honda-0-saloon-concept_100913330_s.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Honda 0 Saloon concept<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1142321_sony-and-honda-backed-afeela-reportedly-plans-suv-budget-ev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EV brand Afeela<\/a> established by Honda and Sony is also expected to use the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The first <strong>Honda EV on the platform<\/strong> is due on sale in the U.S. in 2026. That&#8217;s also when Afeela&#8217;s first EV will be available, and likely when the production version of Acura&#8217;s upcoming concept will also start sales. Acura plans to sell all of its EVs online only, mimicking EV brands like Tesla and Rivian.<\/p>\n<p>For the U.S. market, the vehicles will be <strong>built at Honda&#8217;s revamped Marysville Auto Plant in Ohio<\/strong>. The batteries will also be sourced from an Ohio plant Honda is establishing with LG.<\/p>\n<p>Acura will still launch vehicles with gas engines. The next will arrive early next year as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1142828_2025-acura-adx-release-date\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 2025 ADX<\/a>, rumored to be a subcompact crossover twinned with the latest Honda HR-V.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An electric SUV concept from Acura will preview a production model The production variant of the electric SUV will be built in Ohio The electric SUV will ride on Honda and Acura&#8217;s EV dedicated platform Acura will use 2024 Monterey Car Week on this month to present a concept previewing its next electric vehicle, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}