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First Acura electric SUV to be named ZDX; co-developed with GM

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Acura announced that its first all-new full-electric SUV coming to market in 2024 will be named the Acura ZDX. Acura will also launch with a ZDX Type S variant, as the brand continues to focus on putting the driver experience first. —Emile Korkor, assistant vice president of Acura National Sales. 2011 Acura ZDX.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

The Truth About Cars

& Location information was more accurate than a few years prior, given increasing civilian and corporate access to military-grade GPS information. Acura followed with hard drive navigation in the 1996 3.5 Information was presented to the driver via a four-inch color LCD screen, with seven different LCD keys used for inputs.

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Sony & Honda Joins Hands Launch Premium EVs In the US By 2026

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The new car’s key characteristics, including pricing, battery range, and even platform, have yet to be published, but executives of the new firm revealed a concept for a vehicle that would function nearly like a rolling smartphone. The two corporations are exploring a European debut, but no date has been determined.

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Honda Speaks About Near Future, EV Plans

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Of course, corporations are going to put their best foot forward in these types of media briefs, so you can take things with a grain of salt (or maybe Jimmy Buffett's lost shaker), but here are the highlights: As of the end of the 2023 fiscal year that ended on March 31, Honda has cut fixed costs by more than 10 percent since fiscal year 2019.

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News: 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV

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Carbon neutrality for all Honda products and corporate activities by 2050. Honda has created a proof-of-concept Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell truck in the U.S., It will be built by hand in Marysville, Ohio, at Honda’s Performance Manufacturing Center, the same facility that hand-built the very sporty Acura NSX.

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2025-2035: Rewriting The Automotive History

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Now the conventional companies face the huge problem of transitioning from an ICE engine culture to an EV culture and this can be scary for the big corporates who have been operating with ICE-powered cars. Finally, there are BEVs which are entirely run on battery alone and have no relationship with a gasoline engine.

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Canoo Pickup, Kia EV6, Honda and Mini EV Plans: EV Week in Review – Mar 9-15

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Honda of America sales chief Dave Gardner told reporters one of the electric SUVs will be from the Honda brand, while the other will be an Acura. The X Prologue will be the first Toyota EV concept released outside China. Honda will offer more details later this year, he said. – March 12, via Associated Press.

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