Electric Honda Prologue: these are the specifications

The Honda Prologue is not Honda’s first EV – it follows the Clarity Electric and Honda e – but it is one of Honda’s first truly usable electric family cars. More or less at the same time there is also the Honda e:Ny1, but like the Honda e it will not come to North America. The Honda Prologue does, and for the time being it even focuses exclusively on that. The Prologue was already shown last year and has quite sporty proportions for an SUV, with remarkably deep wheel arches, a low shoulder line and a ditto roof.

Anyone who thinks they recognize parts from other brands in the interior is making no mistake: the Honda Prologue is on General Motors’ Ultium platform, with which Honda wants to take big steps, especially for the North American market. ‘Ultium’ is used for all of GM’s modern EVs, from the Hummer EV to the Cadillac Lyriq. Chevrolet is even working on a car that could be a direct twin of the Honda Prologue, the Chevrolet Blazer EV. That car is in the same segment and also has the same proportions.

The Honda Prologue is 4.87 meters long, making it longer than a Ford Mustang Mach-E, but shorter than the (PHEV) Explorer. At 1.64 meters it is indeed not too high, but it is wide (1.99 m). In addition, the car has an enormous wheelbase of no less than 3.09 meters, even more than a Hyundai Ioniq 5. The wheels themselves are 19 to 21 inches. Honda promises a luggage compartment of no less than 714 to 1,634 liters, although the measurement method in the US is different than here. The interior has two screens: an 11-inch one for the driver, and an 11.3-inch touchscreen. Here the relationship with GM is most clearly visible: the buttons on the steering wheel, among other things, clearly do not come from Honda itself.

The battery pack of the Honda Prologue is 85 kWh in all cases. According to Honda, this gives a range of 300 miles, about 483 kilometers, but that range does not yet seem very precise or verified. Battery empty? Then it can of course be used on a fast charger, but with a power that does not set any new standards at 155 kW. Customers are given the choice when purchasing: either a home charger that is included in the price, or charging at a public pole for $750.

The Prologue will be available with one or two electric motors and therefore with two- or four-wheel drive. The power of the four-wheel drive is 292 hp, the two-wheel drive is not yet known. We do know that the 2WD version does not drive the rear wheels, but the front wheels. That is a somewhat unusual choice for an EV, especially for an EV of this size.

The Honda Prologue will appear on the American market in 2024. The first units will therefore still have a CCS plug, because we know that Honda will use the Tesla fast charging standard in North America from 2025. American buyers who find the Prologue a simple box can ask the same company for a ‘premium’ alternative in the form of the Acura ZDX. In Europe we should not expect the ZDX and the Honda Prologue.