Acura on Thursday formally revealed its first totally electrical car, the 2024 Acura ZDX.
Preliminary specs present this inceptive EV effort for the Honda luxurious and efficiency model to enter the quick lane with some spectacular specs, together with as much as 500 hp and a projected vary as much as 325 miles.
If it appears like Acura already revealed the ZDX, it virtually did—in final 12 months’s Precision EV idea that bowed on the similar occasion final 12 months, when the ZDX identify was additionally confirmed. Acura had beforehand utilized the ZDX badge to a quirky crossover car a decade in the past.
2024 Acura ZDX
Since its idea tease, the manufacturing ZDX arrives sans steering yoke and with inside cues that hew way more carefully to the look of Acura’s gasoline fashions, albeit with many of the idea’s silhouette intact. In all, it has a glance of its personal, but it surely’s additionally clearly carefully associated to the Cadillac Lyriq. At 197.7 inches lengthy, 77.0 inches vast, and 64.4 inches excessive, the ZDX measures inside an inch of the Cadillac Lyriq in all key dimensions. It additionally rides on the identical 121.8-inch wheelbase.
2024 Acura ZDX
2024 Acura ZDX
2024 Acura ZDX
There will likely be two totally different variations of the ZDX, each constructed alongside the Lyriq, on the similar former Saturn plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The bottom A-Spec will provide a single-motor rear-wheel-drive model or accessible dual-motor all-wheel drive. The performance-oriented Sort S model will embrace the dual-motor setup and can, Acura says, be the best-performing SUV from the model ever.
With an estimated 500 hp in dual-motor type more likely to ship 0-60 mph in lower than 5 seconds. Single-motor variations make 340 hp. The ZDX will tow as much as 3,500 kilos.
The 102-kwh battery pack gives 325 EPA-cycle miles of driving vary, Acura tasks. That’s greater than the 314-mile EPA ranking given to the 2024 Lyriq. Sort S fashions will slot in at a projected 288 miles. Simply as with the Lyriq, Acura boasts CCS-format DC fast-charging at as much as 190 kw—good for 81 miles of vary in 10 minutes. Honda is one in every of seven automakers, additionally together with GM, which have partnered in a plan so as to add 30,000 high-power DC fast-charging connectors at U.S. city and freeway areas.
2024 Acura Integra Sort S
The ZDX is a five-seater, driving on a four-wheel unbiased suspension, with multi-link preparations entrance and rear and the skateboard-like devoted EV structure permitting a roomy cabin. GM’s Ultium battery tech mounts within the area instantly underneath the passenger cell. A-Spec variations include amplitude-reactive dampers and 20-inch wheels, whereas Sort S variations get an adaptive damping system and journey on an air suspension. Different Sort S upgrades embrace bigger Brembo entrance brakes and machined-finished 22-inch wheels, with high-performance summer season tires and 22-inch gloss-black wheels accessible.
2024 Acura ZDX
2024 Acura ZDX
2024 Acura ZDX
With the 2024 ZDX Sort S, Acura is introducing a Fingers Free Cruise system, which is sort of definitely as a result of be a resigned model of GM’s Tremendous Cruise. The ZDX additionally contains the primary automated parking help system in an Acura, along with a full suite of active-safety gadgets like automated emergency braking, energetic lane management, rear cross-traffic braking, and blind-spot steering help.
The ZDX affords an 11.3-inch central touchscreen interface with wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility, plus Google built-in and EV-charge-related route planning. Battery preconditioning coordinates with the steerage to make charging stops as temporary as attainable. Different comfort-oriented cabin tech contains Bang & Olufsen premium audio. In any other case, the ZDX’s passenger- and cargo-related options and particulars have not but been laid out.
A-Spec variations will begin within the $60,000 vary, whereas Sort S variations will likely be within the $70,000 vary. Acura says that the ZDX will arrive at dealerships in early 2024.
