- We just got our first glimpse of Honda’s next EV for the U.S. market, the Acura RSX.
- The RSX will enter production at Honda’s Ohio EV plant in late 2025.
- It will debut Honda’s next-generation, in-house EV technology and Asimo OS software.
Honda’s been slow to the electric vehicle game, but now it’s getting serious. It’s launching a tech-heavy collaboration with Sony in 2026 and then a flagship sedan based on the wild-looking 0 Series Saloon prototype. But the first of Honda’s next-generation EVs goes into production at the end of this year, and we just got our first glimpse of it.
On Wednesday, Honda announced the inaugural model built on its upcoming, in-house EV platform will be called the Acura RSX. We already knew this vehicle would come from Honda’s premium brand, and we also knew it would look vaguely like the Acura Performance EV Concept revealed last summer.
Now the model has a name, which, by the way, is a throwback to what Acura called the fourth-generation Integra in the U.S. back in the 2000s. And now we can start to gather what it’ll actually look like from a teaser photo (pictured above) Honda shared depicting a camouflaged car.
The production RSX takes some broad cues from the concept, but loses its most exaggerated elements and gains practical features like side mirrors.
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The Acura Performance EV Concept.
The RSX is a coupe-style SUV with a fastback roofline and a profile that resembles the Tesla Model Y and the Ford Mustang Mach-E. It sports a deep, angular crease in the driver-side door, which looks to be an air vent. The RSX has flush door handles, which likely pop out when unlocked. The back of the car is defined by a full-width light bar and an upturned rear hatch lid.
Curiously, the RSX’s charge port is located by the front left fender. Other automakers have made an effort to relocate their ports to the back left—to mimic the way Tesla does things and to make using Tesla Superchargers easier on customers. (On Wednesday, Honda also announced that Acura and Honda EV customers will gain Supercharger access via adapters this spring. It previously said that its electric cars launched starting in 2025 would be equipped with the Tesla-style North American Charging Standard port.)
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The Acura Performance EV Concept.
That one photo uptop is all we’re getting today. So we’ll have to wait to get a better sense of what the RSX looks like from other angles. Acura also didn’t share details about price, range, charging times, battery size or other specs. However, a Honda spokesperson said the RSX will be smaller than the ZDX, Acura’s sole EV at the moment.
Today, Honda sells two EVs in America: the Acura ZDX and the Honda Prologue. Both are General Motors EVs underneath, using that automaker’s “Ultium” battery platform. The RSX will mark the birth of Honda’s next-generation EVs, cars with platforms developed entirely in-house. The RSX will also debut Honda’s new vehicle operating system, Asimo OS, which will run functions like the infotainment and automated driving features while making cars deeply updatable over time.
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The Acura Performance EV Concept.
If the rather surprising success of the Prologue is any indication, Americans are hungry for EVs from the Japanese brands they know and trust. So having a full EV lineup will likely serve Honda well.
The Acura RSX will hit the market in early 2026, shortly after production begins at the Honda EV Hub in Ohio, a spokesperson told reporters on Tuesday.
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