Again in Might, Honda launched the primary design sketch of the 2024 Prologue SUV, its first all-electric mannequin to be bought in the US.
Sharing Basic Motors’ Ultium Platform with the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV and different fashions, the Honda Prologue seemed attractive within the inaugural sketch, though the automobile appeared flatter than one would anticipate from an adventure-ready SUV because the automaker describes it.
Now we get to see the Prologue once more in a recent teaser video, and this time the automobile seems extra lifelike and nearer to what the true factor will seem like when it debuts in early 2024.
The video is shot on the Honda Design Studio in California, which leads the styling of the model’s first quantity battery electrical automobile. Whereas we do not get to identify a prototype, the full-size clay mannequin featured within the video offers us a reasonably good have a look at the finite product.
In comparison with the design sketch, the Prologue seems taller, with extra beneficiant glazing, however apart from that, it stays remarkably near the drawing. Based on Honda, the design group developed an SUV motif that’s fashionable and recent, with clear and easy floor traces—imagined as “Neo-Rugged.”
“Designing the primary quantity Honda electrical automobile gave us extra freedom than a automobile with an inner combustion engine, and we will stretch our creativeness, particularly in styling the front-end. We envisioned Prologue with an extended wheelbase, shorter overhang, and succesful tires to create sporty proportions and a stronger stance.”
Sang-Hyuk Ahn, exterior designer at Honda
We be taught from the video that the Prologue is the primary Honda mannequin designed primarily by digital actuality visualization know-how, which was utilized by the group to check the SUV in several environments and to speed up cross-collaboration between Honda styling groups within the US and Japan.
The Prologue is one in every of 30 new EVs Honda goals to introduce worldwide by 2030, when it initiatives it’s going to have an annual quantity of two million models. In North America, Honda will begin gross sales of the Prologue co-developed with GM in 2024, adopted by the manufacturing and gross sales of Honda fashions primarily based on Honda e:Structure in 2026 and a brand new collection of inexpensive EVs co-developed with GM in 2027.
Extra particulars on the Prologue might be launched within the coming months. Till then, it is price noting that the Prologue clay mannequin options related proportions to the Chevrolet Blazer EV, together with the span between the A- and C-pillars, the angle and form of the triangular home windows subsequent to the mirror caps, and the rear-door cutline. It additionally options common door handles just like the Blazer EV.
This appears to counsel the Honda Prologue might be a midsize SUV similar to the Blazer EV, wherein case it might supply related powertrain choices, though it stays to be seen if the Japanese automaker will supply RWD variants and a efficiency model just like the Blazer EV SS.
Honda Prologue official design sketch