Electric Acura NSX-type performance car confirmed

The next Acura NSX, or a car like it, will be powered by batteries, Shinji Aoyama, global executive vice president for Acura parent Honda, said at this month’s 2024 Monterey Car Week, Motor1 reported.

Aoyama described the car as an “NSX-type of vehicle” and said it may not necessary be called an NSX.

He also confirmed it would ride on a new Honda-developed dedicated EV platform that debuts next year in an Acura SUV and also underpin the upcoming 0 (Zero) Series of EVs from Honda. The Acura SUV was previewed in Monterey by the Performance EV concept.

Aoyama said the electric performance car won’t use solid-state batteries but will benefit from the thin and lightweight development approach Honda is taking for its dedicated EV platform, The Drive reported.

Acura and Honda EVs based on the platform will be built at Honda’s sprawling production facility located just outside Marysville, Ohio, which is also home to the Acura Performance Manufacturing Center that built the last NSX. It’s likely the new electric performance car confirmed by Aoyama will also be built at the site.

The Ohio site is being retooled to manufacture EVs and their components, including batteries, and is now referred to internally as the Honda EV Hub.

The news of an electric performance car in the vein of the NSX isn’t a huge surprise as Acura last year teased a concept for an EV that looked like a future evolution of the NSX. Called the Acura Electric Vision Design, the concept was developed to inspire Acura’s design staff working on the brand’s future electric lineup.

Acura boss Jon Ikeda also previously confirmed plans for a third-generation NSX as early as 2021, when Acura rolled out the 2022 NSX Type S to mark the end of the second-generation car’s run. His comments at the time implied the next NSX would be powered by something other than a standalone internal-combustion powertrain like the original car or a hybrid setup like the second-generation car.