Monterey Car Week is a launchpad for many wonderful concepts and long-term dream cars. This year’s edition was no other, with brands large and small on the California coast to showcase electrified concepts. Over the past week, a bevy of brands have showcased other hybrid and all-electric prototypes, pre-production cars and more extravagant concepts, all for the first time in a specialized luxury-focused display.
Below are highlights of the first battery-powered ones to hit the California coast in 2024.
Acura has already brought its first all-electric SUV, the ZDX, to the Monterey festivities. This year, it’s another concept of electric vehicle. This upcoming electric vehicle will go into production in late 2025 and will be the first electric vehicle manufactured at the Honda EV Hub in Ohio. It’s shaped like a coupe and will play with the new Acura fountain on the rear to mark it as an electrified model. Acura calls the front design “aggressive” and showed off its “Moonlit White Pearl” coat of paint.
Scheduled for launch in November, the M5 Touring Hybrid arrived in Monterey immediately after the M5 sedan. The Family Edition with a new look and more shipping area still offers acceleration from 0 to 62 mph in 3. 6 seconds. With an 18. 6 kWh battery, it can go up to 42 miles on the sheer strength of the battery, which BMW considers a merit for urban driving.
Cadillac unveiled a luxury hypercar concept at the posh auto show. Based on the American automaker’s V-Series. R hybrid race cars, the all-electric, autonomous device is a two-door coupe with gullwing doors.
The call shows both sides of the vehicle: Opulent for the Level 4 autonomous driving experience with augmented reality, and Velocity for the brand’s Blackwing track performance-based driving experience. In this mode, the steering wheel and driving pedals emerge and the vehicle transforms. in a tough racing car.
Karma Automotive, the Californian manufacturer of luxury electric vehicles, took advantage of Monterey to present a new “GT-UV”, or Grand Touring application vehicle. The concept announced as Ivara: a four-seat electric concept capable of handling other terrains.
A wedge-shaped device in a functional position, Lamborghini has presented its new Temeraire with a V-8 hybrid engine. One of the main product announcements of the festivities, the 4. 4-liter twin-turbo V8 engine and 3 engines give it an impressive 907 horsepower. It goes from 0 to 60 mph in 2. 7 seconds with a top speed of 213 mph. It will be able to drive in natural electric mode for an indeterminate number of kilometers, but regardless of the distance, be the first in the feature mark.
Lexus has launched two all-electric luxury concepts: the LF-ZC (Lexus Future Zero-emission Catalyst) and the LF-ZL (Lexus Future Zero-emission Luxury). A completely virtual cockpit ensures those cars are 21st century, but Lexus has also returned to its 35-year history with those future-ready electric cars.