--- title: "Acura’s Future EV Designs Are All About Using Light" date: "2022-08-18" modified: "2022-08-18" authors: - name: "Victoria Scott" job_title: "Contributor" link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/victoria-scott" url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/acuras-future-ev-designs-are-all-about-using-light" categories: - "Acura News" - "Car Tech" - "Electric Vehicles" - "News" - "News by Brand" tags: - "acura" - "Electric Vehicle" - "luxury" --- # Acura’s Future EV Designs Are All About Using Light ![]() *\Acura\* Concept designs can range from the profoundly silly to [the industry-changing](), but among the more important prototypes are the ones that dictate a company's future design language. Think of it as a blueprint from which all future models will derive inspiration from. Acura's newest design concept unveiled Thursday, the Precision EV, suggests a future where lighting establishes design just as much as the sheet metal itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The concept offers a handsome enough vision of future Acuras to come, with a long hood despite its battery-driven nature, paired with sharp creases defining both the front and rear of the concept. I especially appreciate the decision to define the brand-defining "grille" area with flush-fitted lights, rather than simply giving the SUV a completely faceless front bumper or more glossy black plastic. Unfortunately, I'm significantly less excited about an interior *also* fully defined with LEDs glowing directly in the driver's face and a steering yoke instead of a wheel, as wheels have been a solved problem [for about 114 years now](). It should be noted that none of this is coming to a dealer near you. The Precision EV is never going to be any more than a concept, but it does provide a preview of what the company's first electric car will draw inspiration from. That first electric car, yet to be seen, will similarly be a large electric SUV built off the same [GM-derived platform Honda's Prologue]() will be built on, and is coming in 2024; until then, we'll have to make do with this to tide us over. ![]() ![]() It's worth noting that Acura's previous design concept bearing the Precision moniker, the [2016 Precision sedan](), didn't end up paving the way for any production sedans that looked half as wild; really, all that ended up in production off that car was the company's now-ubiquitous five-pointed diamond grille. On the other hand, the most recent design language concept the company debuted at Monterey, [the 2019 Type S preview](), does however bear a fairly strong resemblance to the TLX Type S currently on sale, so it's hard to gauge exactly how much of the Precision EV's style we'll actually see on the roads someday. ![]() ![]() Suffice it to say, however, I expect to see more cues from the Precision make it to production than some of Acura's even earlier, completely absurd concepts of the early-00s; it's a lot less clear what, exactly, they were doing back then. ## Author Victoria Scott is a former staff writer for The Drive. She began in the automotive industry as a freelancer in early 2021, fresh out of a programming job at NASA Mission Control. ### Author social links [LinkedIn]() [Instagram]() [Twitter]()