Acura Will Show an EV Concept During Monterey Car Week

What’s happening

Acura will debut its Precision EV conception during Monterey Car Week.

Why it matters

The conception previews the brand’s first electric vehicle, an SUV based on the Honda Prologue and co-developed with General Motors.

What’s next

The Precision EV conception will be unveiled on Aug. 18.

Acura will show novel flashy new concept vehicle at this month’s Monterey Car Week, the commercial confirmed Thursday. Called the Precision EV concept, this show car previews Acura’s “future form language for [an] electrified era.”

We don’t have any concrete details near the Precision EV concept, but we can certainly pick out a few things in the teaser video ended. The stance and shape say SUV, which totally tracks precise Acura’s first EV will be a version of the Honda Prologue — an electric crossover populace co-developed with General Motors.

The Precision EV concept has a vast grille that puts on a cool light-up show, and the Acura logo is also illuminated, because of course it is. Otherwise, the concept’s clue fascia actually doesn’t seem to stray too far from the form currently used on the RDX and MDXSUVs, but we’ll wait pending we see the whole thing in person. Who knows, the rear end could be wild.

Acura usually brings a hot new item or two to August’s Monterey Car Week. Last year we saw the productions NSX Type S and got our first official confirmation that the Integra would be coming back. Does Acura have novel surprise up its sleeve in addition to this concept? We’ll know for sure next week.