the Honda Prologue<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and Acura ZDX.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHybrids the transition to Honda\u2019s EV assault<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
They\u2019ll reach U.S. showrooms in 2024, though potential buyers will have the opportunity to start placing orders later this year. In a departure from its normal marketing approach, buyers will only be able to purchase the ZDX \u2014 and future Acura EVs \u2014 online. They\u2019ll still have the opportunity to kick the tires at showrooms, however, and dealers will still oversee deliveries and repairs \u2014 in accordance with most state franchise laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first two EVs are being developed as part of a joint venture between Honda Motor Co. and General Motors. The Japanese automaker\u2019s big push into the battery-car market won\u2019t begin until 2026, however, when it starts rolling out vehicles based on its own EV platform. By 2030 it expects all-electric models to make up as much as 50% of its U.S. sales \u2014 including all of those by the Acura brand. It\u2019s longer-term target is to go 100% electric with both brands worldwide by 2040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Honda’s looking to rebound from a very difficult 2022. It’s also counting on a strong \u2014 and growing \u2014 line-up of hybrids to make the transition to EVs simple and successful. Get details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,1608,10,1164,2648,1347,9],"tags":[9520,9519,9517,475,9518],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238013"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238023,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238013\/revisions\/238023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238013"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=238013"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=238013"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=238013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}