The next Acura NSX, or car, will be battery-powered, Shinji Aoyama, global executive vice president of Honda, Acura’s parent company, said at this month’s Monterey Car Week 2024, Motor1 reported.
Aoyama described the car as an “NSX-type vehicle” and said they may not want to call it NSX.
It also demonstrated that it will be based on a new committed EV platform developed through Honda that will debut next year in an Acura SUV and also in Honda’s upcoming 0 (Zero) series of electric vehicles. The Acura SUV was introduced in Monterey through the Performance EV concept.
Aoyama said the functional electric vehicle will use solid-state batteries, but will take advantage of Honda’s lean and light progression strategy toward its dedicated EV platform, The Drive reported.
Acura Electric Vision Design Concept
The Acura and Honda electric cars built on the platform will be built at Honda’s sprawling production facility located outside Marysville, Ohio, which is also home to the Acura Performance Manufacturing Center that built the newest NSX. Most likely, the new electric car of functionality shown through Aoyama will also be built on site.
The Ohio is being remodeled to make electric cars and their components, adding batteries, and is now known internally as the Honda EV Hub.
News of a functional electric car in the NSX lineup is rarely a big deal since Acura unveiled an electric vehicle concept last year that looked like a future evolution of the NSX. Called Acura Electric Vision Design, the concept evolved to motivate Acura’s design team working on the brand’s long-term electric pipeline.
Acura boss Jon Ikeda also showed plans for a third-generation NSX starting in 2021, when Acura introduced the 2022 NSX Type S to mark the end of the second-generation car’s run. His comments at the time implied that the next NSX would be powered by more than just a standalone internal combustion powertrain like the original car or a hybrid setup like the second-generation car.