Honda nonetheless has an prolonged approach to go in electrification, nonetheless it is on its methodology… slowly nonetheless actually. After teasing a sketch of its upcoming Honda Prologue electrical SUV co-developed with GM earlier this 12 months, the Japanese automaker has shared new video footage documenting the design course of, teasing new EV angles not seen sooner than.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. is among the many latest legacy automakers pivoting to quite a lot of EVs, vowing to ship 100% electrified product sales by 2040. We always desire to stage out the excellence in semantics proper right here, as “electrified” and “pure electrical” are two very a number of varieties of vehicles. To that point, a giant portion of Honda’s electrification approach nonetheless consists of Hydrogen Gasoline Cell Vehicles (HFCVs) and hybrids.

By means of battery electrical vehicles, Honda has however to ship any to North America, nonetheless that should all change when Honda delivers its first all-electric amount model – the Prologue.

This all-electric SUV will seemingly be based totally on GM’s Ultium electrical platform and is scheduled to achieve in 2024 alongside an all-electric Acura SUV. To tempo itself, Honda has solely devoted to an annual combined functionality of 70,000 objects for these two EVs up thus far.

In Might, we caught our first glimpse of the Prologue when Honda teased a sketch of it alongside info of accelerating its already lackluster plans to go all-electric.

In a video posted by Honda instantly, you presumably can see a bunch at its Design Center in Los Angeles working to piece collectively the within and exterior of the Prologue using distinctive know-how. This consists of digital actuality headsets together with typical methods like sketches and clay fashions. Marco Tan, a VR and CG designer at Honda Design spoke to the tactic:

We’ve been able to see Prologue in digital environments that truly resemble the precise world. By simulating and evaluating colors, provides, and even lighting in a digital 3D setting now we have been able to find the chances that took styling to the subsequent stage.

Throughout the nearly five-minute teaser video, you get a peek into the Honda group’s design course of as they create a car trend they title “Neo-rugged.” Furthermore, you presumably can spy some angles of the Prologue we have not seen sooner than.

Honda says that additional particulars of the Prologue will come to delicate inside the coming months and you could be a part of updates proper right here. Throughout the meantime, strive the Prologue design video beneath:

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