The Next Honda NSX Might End Up Being An All-Electric Hypercar
The current generation NSX has already taken a big step into the world of electrification thanks to its fabulously complex hybrid system, but the next Honda supercar is set to go even further.
Speaking to Autocar at a demo run of the 4-Motor Acura EV Concept Pikes Peak machine, Honda R&D chief Sekino Yosuke suggested that the powertrain could be used in a production car.
He said:
“It’s not just a competition car; I would like to make such a car in production, and there are some studies around that. We want our electric cars to be joyful to drive, and it is clear that this proposal, with around 1000bhp, is both joyful and uses technology that could one day reach production. We are evaluating what is possible now.”
The ideal vessel for such a bonkers, all-electric powertrain would most likely be the next NSX. The EV Concept is - after all - “inspired” by the current version of Honda’s supercar.
What’s particularly interesting about the Acura EV is its “four-wheel independent torque allocation”. This gives the car incredible torque vectoring ability, as it’s able to accelerate and decelerate each wheel individually.
It’s also crazy fast in a straight line, with the 1000bhp output giving a 0-124mph time of 6.2 seconds. Race it against Honda’s new Civic Type R, and the mega hatch will have only just hit 62mph while the Acura is doing double the speed.
The road car version of the powertrain will of course need to be vastly different for reasons of range, longevity and much more besides. But if it could get anywhere close to the output of the Pikes Peak machine, it’d be quite a beast.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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I may be ridiculed for saying yes but yes! The NSX was always meant to show the technical prowess of honda and this is the perfect way to do it!
THIS
FINALLY
SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS
Just because it ain’t petrol, doesn’t mean it ain’t good.
I love EVs, especially Tesla. I think it would be great for Honda to make an electric NSX
ELECTRIC VTEC NEEDS TO BE A THING
Honestly I think the 2nd gen NSX should’ve been all electric.
No Vtec, No fun.
What if Honda made a VTEC for Electric?
E-VTEC.
Now wating for the hate for making the NSX all EV and the electric puns..
It’s schocking, innit?
That’s fair enough Honda, but in the end, this is always the NSX that I’d rather take home with me.
Same.
Hell Yeaaaaaaaa
Its all fine and good untill you remeber the original… Its just so different, imagine what they could achieve if they put their minds to an affordable ferrari again, manual v6 no electric nothing just a good light chassis thats nimble and playful. I cry evritim
You’re forgetting how advanced the original NSX was at the time. First mass-produced, all-aluminium monocoque, first production car engine with titanium con rods etc. If the current NSX was a highly conventional affair, it wouldn’t be true to the ‘New Sports Car eXperimental’ ethos of the original
It’s still hilarious the GT3/GTD version of the NSX has been forbidden from running its hybrid drivetrain. So it’s just a dirty 600 horsepower twin turbo V6 now. Oh, the irony.
Are we going to have to sit through countless concepts and many years before it is released?
Maybe… And I’m not surprised with that.
Alonso triggered
This would be more powerful and more reliable than the engine in his McLaren. Alonso happy
Also I like the park bench and the dinner table on the back and Front