I Drive Acura's New Electric SUV For The First Time! ZDX Type S Full Tour, Charging, & Road Test 

I don't think there is another roof color though.

​@cbotten106 then it can be wrapped in a color to deviate it from the hearse look.

why do americans think everything looks loke a hearse?

Acura tried to hide resemblance of a station wagon, and instead produced a hearse. To me there is no attractive design of any hearse, but I saw nice designs of lots of European brands of station wagons.

@@nevco8774 station wagons are dope. They are utilitarian, economical, roomy and can even be specd with high performance drivetrains

I liked "we don't test drive cars on paper, we test them on asphalt," better.

I just thought the same thing

BIG TIME!

So true. Oh no. I can't unsee it now. "At least he went from us in silence..." ;)

Exactly what is thought!

My thoughts exactly!!!!

Cargo space is measured in # of coffins.

Baby diaper brown, I've done the research. The charging curve is even worse than the color though.

For real 😂

The main reason for a full cover with no frunk is for noise blocking, since the customer is only expected to lift the hood to refill wiper fluid. I guess Acura met their noise goal with just the landing strip.

@@concinnus Landing strip? 🤣

Musk and his PR army of Tesla fanbois misled the public that repeated fast charging is safe - it’s not, as evidenced by a record number of Teslas whose batteries have failed prematurely - many below 10,000 miles. Tesla has been replacing many failed batteries under warranty - warranty spending is partly why free cash flow has plummeted over the last several quarters. Slower charging is the best for long term health of not just the battery but also the associated electrical components. I switched to the Lexus RZ450e electric ($43,000 after Lexus incentives) which after latest Lexus software update is delivering >4.0 miles/kWh (260+ miles) - far more efficient than my Model Y’s 2.9 miles/kWh in city driving which is 90% of my usage. Not only does the Lexus blow away the Model Y in refinement, ride comfort and tech, Lexus also gives you FREE loaners for 30 days to use for longer road trips which is huge as it saves miles/wear and tear on your electric. Don’t get me started on the overall Lexus VIP level service experience vs the abysmal Tesla “service” quality. Bottomline: Don’t fall for Tesla’s faster charging hype - slower charging is the best for battery health and if you take frequent long trips, best to get a hybrid or a PHEV.

Really one of the dumbest things I have ever read

I noticed that too. Hopefully this is a preproduction lol. The colour difference was very noticeable.

"This is a ground up battery electric vehicle chassis, meant to be an EV not shared with any combustion... What the heck is going on under here?" This is what happens when legacy automotive engineering management design an EV. I've been an engineer in automotive for 10 years (3 years at the Big Three and 7 years in off road industrial vehicles) and this is exactly what the engineering teams I've worked with would do. This may be a ground up EV but most of the components under the hood (brakes, HVAC, windshield wipers/fluid, fuse box assemblies) aren't ground up. Unless you are trying to innovate you either reuse or modify existing solutions. It saves so much money if you don't have to reinvent the wheel (less design time, less design reviews, less feasibility studies, less failure analysis, less prototyping, less certification, less retooling for manufacturing, etc). It's really hard to convince a project manager that it's worth the expense to make the space under the hood "prettier". It's a lot easier to convince them to get a giant piece of plastic to cover the ugly bits like they do on the Lyriq, so I'm a little surprised they have so much exposed. Maybe if they were given a directive to create a frunk they would have done things differently but Acura has decades of engine bay designs that are easy to copy/paste and modify to fit their needs instead of designing everything from scratch. It's easy for Tesla or Rivian to have innovative solutions in those spaces because they are starting from scratch and their design budgets are built around innovating. Legacy manufacturers don't get that luxury.

@@jon1913 they should have that luxury the same as any company like Tesla or rivian, if they are a successful company they should be able to do it, I think it's a culture and attitude problem, it's too conservative

​@@nathansuss You're not wrong, I was just giving my experience as to why it is the way it is. Most engineers don't go into this industry to copy/paste existing designs. We really want to make new and exciting things but we are all cogs in the corporate machine so we do what we must to get paid. Sometimes we will have to find innovative solutions to fit design constraints and those solutions will change how future products are made but we rarely are given a blank slate and a blank check to create whatever we want. The most ground breaking innovation at my company happens during our hack-a-thons where we have a few days (or occasionally a full week) to prototype whatever innovative idea you want. It could be a process improvement or a training solution or a new product feature that would make/save the company millions of dollars. Skeptically it's the company leaching our ideas to make money but it's honestly the best week of the year! Occasionally those ideas go through the tech development process and eventually make it into production, you'll get a nice little award and maybe a bonus if the idea is patentable, which is nice. The other 51 weeks of the year we are slogging through the day to day workload of getting vehicles to customers and resolving defects.

The interesting part to me is that apparently the engineers claim they loaded up the front to increase cargo space but did they really? I think Model Y has more headroom all the while having more components underneath.

Maybe he was thinking of the battery? Even then, Ultium Spring Hill has also started production.

They hug us.

Volvo doesn’t show it in their EVs either, only a range number.

nope. A normal station wagon side profile. Why are you americans like this?