Electric Acura ZDX Discontinued As EV Tax Credit Sunsets

The Acura ZDX is dead again. The electric SUV, which revived a model name previously used on an SUV sold from 2010-2013, has been discontinued. Reports of its demise were first posted to the Car Dealership Guy X account.

Honda-owned Acura has since confirmed the move put out a statement to note that it is still on track to launch the electric RSX next year, which is a size and price class below the midsize ZDX, which sells in the $65,000 to $75,000 range.

While the ZDX was built on a General Motors platform and assembled by GM for Acura at its Spring HIll, Tenn., factory, the RSX is an in-house design that it will manufacture at a Honda plant in Ohio.

The ZDX went on sale just last year and Acura sold 11,520 from January through August of this year. Honda also sold 31,912 Prologues, which is built on the same platform, but made in Mexico by GM.

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The Prologue remains in production, but Honda and Acura had previously said that it and the ZDX would be replaced by their own electric vehicles as they became available and several U.S.-built Hondas EVs are slated to follow the RSX.

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News of the ZDX’s demise comes exactly a week before the federal tax credit for electric vehicle purchases is discontinued. It was supposed to run through 2032, but was defunded with the passage of the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” tax and spending legislation this summer.