With the advent of electrification, many carmakers have switched their focus to mass-producing EVs. If you follow what has been happening in recent times, you’d know that Honda isn’t exactly at the forefront of electrification. In order to catch up, the Japanese brand enters into a partnership with General Motors, in order to create their first mass-produced BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle). In 2024, Honda will unveil the Prologue – a new fully electric SUV, and here’s what we know so far.

The Honda-GM alliance, also called “GondaM” (Japanese anime fans will get it), is a strategic decision on behalf of Honda, as Honda predicts 80 percent of cars sold in the US to be electric, by 2035 with the ultimate goal of 100 percent electrification by 2040.

As for the Honda Prologue, it will be Honda’s first fully electric SUV, as well as the brand’s first mass-produced EV – the retro-inspired Honda E is sold in Europe and Japan only. The Prologue is expected to come out in late 2023, as a 2024 model year. It will be followed by a second EV, sold under the Acura brand, which will come out late in 2024 or early 2025. What’s interesting here is that the Acura EV is expected to be a redesigned Cadillac Lyriq.

In addition, the Prologue EV will be produced by GM at their Mexico plant, in which GM recently invested substantial amounts in order to reconfigure it to an EV production plant. It’s also where the current Chevrolet Blazer is being made, although how much (if) the Honda Prologue will share with it, it’s still unclear. We do know that both the Honda Prologue and the Acura EV will ride on the “highly flexible global EV platform” powered by Ultium batteries, based on the “GondaM” strategic partnership.

The Honda Prologue is expected to come in four different trims. Depending on which one you choose, the Prologue is expected to start from $45,000 and reach $55,000 for the top-spec, with every next trim level adding $5,000 to the price

Honda realizes that not everyone would want a GM-built Honda from Mexico, so the Japanese company is working on its own E-architecture, which will debut around 2025, with a new batch of Honda EVs.