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Honda Wants Your Acura to Keep the Lights On

Honda doesn’t just want to sell you an electric car—it wants to make sure that car pulls double duty as a power plant for your home. At RE+ 25, North America’s largest clean-energy trade show, the company is taking the wraps off a bold vision for the future of mobility and energy management, anchored by the sleek Acura RSX Prototype and a suite of vehicle-to-home (V2H) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies.

If you caught Monterey Car Week last month, you already know the RSX Prototype: a rakish, premium electric SUV built on Honda’s brand-new global EV platform. At RE+, the RSX isn’t just a showpiece—it’s plugged into a bi-directional home charging station concept, a setup that previews how future Acura and Honda EVs could power your house in a blackout, or even send excess juice back to the grid when demand spikes.

Cars as “Virtual Power Plants”

Honda floated this idea at CES earlier this year, describing its future EVs as “Virtual Power Plants.” Think of it like this: your car charges itself when rates are lowest (and renewables are plentiful), then kicks some of that stored energy back to your home—or the grid—when electricity prices peak. That could mean shaving money off your energy bill while helping utilities keep the lights on.

Gary Robinson, VP of sustainability and business development at American Honda, put it bluntly: “In the future, we want to make every Honda EV not just a vehicle but a home energy solution.”

That vision isn’t just vaporware. Honda recently inked a deal with Southern California Edison to begin testing V2H and V2G systems with future Honda and Acura EVs. The goal: let EVs act as backup batteries for homes, or as stabilizers for the grid during crunch times. ChargeScape—a joint venture between Honda, BMW, Ford, and Nissan—will provide the digital glue to make it all work.

A Booth Packed with Tech

Honda’s RE+ display isn’t just about the RSX. Here’s what else you’ll find at booth #V8659:

  • Fastport eQuad Prototype: A funky, pedal-assist electric quad targeting last-mile delivery drivers. It’s quiet, swappable-battery powered, and looks ready to elbow into the e-cargo-bike market. Deliveries start late 2025.
  • 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV: A plug-in fuel-cell hybrid of sorts—29 miles of electric range plus 270 miles on hydrogen, with fast refueling for road trips.
  • Bi-directional Home Charger Concept: The lynchpin of Honda’s energy ambitions, allowing your EV to charge and discharge at will.
  • Home energy hardware: rooftop solar panels, home batteries, an Emporia Vue energy monitor, a high-efficiency heat pump water heater, and a Honda-branded fuel-cell generator designed to scale from 250 kW up to 3 MW for commercial facilities.

The message is clear: Honda wants to sell you not just an EV, but an entire electrified lifestyle. Acura and Honda already run online “Home Electrification” marketplaces where customers can order solar, batteries, and chargers, with plans to expand as their EV portfolio grows.

Looking Ahead

The Acura RSX itself is set to hit dealerships in the second half of 2026, the first Acura built on Honda’s in-house EV platform. Beyond that, Honda is betting that what sits in your garage will matter as much to your electric bill as what’s on your roof.

Southern California Edison’s Funmi Williamson summed it up neatly: “These technologies will not only let customers drive clean but will also help them use those vehicles to power their homes during outages and help the grid during times of peak demand.”

That’s a big promise. But if Honda pulls it off, the Acura RSX might just be the first SUV that looks as good in your driveway as it does keeping the fridge cold when the grid goes down.

Source: Acura

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The Acura RSX Prototype: Yellow Fever Hits Monterey

Acura has pulled the covers off something big — and I don’t just mean the colossal expanse of its “Propulsion Yellow Pearl” paint. Meet the RSX Prototype, the brand’s first proper in-house crack at an electric SUV. And yes, it’s as loud as a mariachi band in a phone booth.

Now, Monterey Car Week is no place for the timid. It’s a playground for the absurd, the extravagant, and the “my-watch-costs-as-much-as-your-house” brigade. So Acura showing up here with a bright yellow, coupe-shaped SUV is like crashing the Met Gala in a samurai suit — bold, but you’ll get noticed.

This isn’t just another EV-shaped promise, though. The RSX is the first child of Honda’s all-new EV platform, conceived and built at the company’s shiny new Ohio EV Hub. Production will kick off in 2026 at the same Marysville Auto Plant that gives us the Integra, proving Honda can build petrol, hybrid, and fully electric cars under one roof without having a nervous breakdown.

Underneath the highlighter paint, the RSX Prototype means business. Dual motors, AWD, sport-tuned double wishbones, Brembos the size of dinner plates, and a low center of gravity all come as standard. In other words, it’s less “eco-box” and more “eco-boxer.”

Inside, things get properly futuristic with ASIMO OS — Honda’s new operating system named after its famous robot. Unlike your grumpy laptop, ASIMO OS is designed to learn. It’ll pick up on your driving habits, your music tastes, and presumably your unhealthy addiction to podcasts about unsolved crimes. Expect OTA updates, personalization galore, and a creeping suspicion that your car now knows more about you than your partner.

And because no modern EV is complete without a superhero party trick, the RSX can power your house during a blackout. Appliances, tools, even your espresso machine on a camping trip — the RSX is basically a bright yellow battery pack with Brembos.

Design-wise, it’s a strong evolution of the Acura Performance EV Concept we saw last year, only angrier. The fastback roofline screams coupe, the 21-inch alloys scream “don’t curb me,” and the rear light bar is a cheeky nod to the NSX of old. The new separated headlamp setup looks sharp too — more katana slash than mood lighting.

But beyond the tech, the stance, and the paint, here’s the real story: Acura is finally planting its EV flag in the ground. This isn’t a compliance car or a re-badged General Motors joint. The RSX is the real deal — a homegrown, performance-focused electric SUV meant to drag the brand into its next chapter.

Will it be good to drive? The ingredients suggest yes. Will it tempt Tesla buyers away from their beige-walled Superchargers? Possibly. Will the paint color look incredible on Instagram at Pebble Beach? Absolutely.

The RSX Prototype is Acura saying: “We’re still here, we’re still sporty, and we’re ready for the electric age.” And if that future is painted in Propulsion Yellow Pearl, well… bring your sunglasses.

Source: Acura

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Tony Stark’s NSX Is Back — and It’s Ready to Save Monterey Car Week

It’s been over a decade since we last saw Tony Stark’s most understated accessory — no, not the Iron Man suit — the Acura NSX Roadster from The Avengers. And now, like every good Marvel character, it’s getting a dramatic comeback. This August, at Monterey Car Week, the one-off superhero supercar will roll into The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, looking exactly as it did when it first stole scenes back in 2012 — complete with its “Stark 33” plates and Hollywood swagger.

Acura’s bringing it out as part of the 35th anniversary celebration of the first-gen NSX, which is a bit like having a birthday party and inviting Robert Downey Jr. to bring cake. And in true Tony Stark fashion, it’s not just for show — the roadster will be auctioned next year, with all proceeds going to charity. If you’re interested, Acura’s accepting “hand raisers” at Monterey. Think of it as RSVP-ing for the chance to outbid other rich petrolheads.

Now, for the petrolhead gossip: this roadster wasn’t some digital movie magic. Built by Trans FX in Oxnard, California, it started life as a very real, very tired 1991 NSX with 252,000 miles on the clock. Yes — that’s enough mileage to lap the planet ten times, but Marek and his crew decided nothing could be more reliable for filming than an OG NSX. They slapped on a hand-crafted resin and fiberglass body, dropped the suspension two inches, bolted on 18-inch wheels, fitted aftermarket seats, and — voila — Stark’s superhero cruiser was born.

The styling came straight from Acura’s LA Design Studio, drawing inspiration from the second-gen NSX Concept shown at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show. Unlike most movie props, this one isn’t a hollow shell — it’s fully driveable and, frankly, cooler than half the stuff that came after in the Marvel garage.

And because Acura knows how to party, the NSX Roadster won’t be alone. Sitting alongside it at The Quail will be a 1995 NSX-R, a 1999 Zanardi Edition, and the brand-new RSX Prototype — Acura’s all-electric premium performance SUV of the future.

So, if you happen to be at Monterey Car Week on August 15, brace yourself. You might not see Iron Man, but you will see the car that proved Tony Stark didn’t just have good taste in tech — he had impeccable taste in wheels.

Source: Acura