2024 Honda Accord price and specs: Hybrid-only sedan is Tesla electric car money
The new Honda Accord is only available as a hybrid – and costs more than any of its predecessors, now more expensive than a base-model Tesla in parts of Australia.
- 2024 Honda Accord pricing and specifications
- Eleventh-generation sedan exclusively a hybrid
- Larger screens, new safety features
- Priced from $64,900 drive-away
The 2024 Honda Accord sedan will be the most expensive iteration of the nameplate ever sold in Australia when it arrives in showrooms in the coming weeks.
The latest Accord will be sold solely as a hybrid, in a single e:HEV RS model grade priced from $64,900 drive-away – a fixed, non-negotiable nationwide price that is $3000 dearer than the previous Honda Accord hybrid.
It is approaching the price of electric cars such as the Tesla Model 3, which is priced from $64,000 to $69,000 drive-away, depending on where it is registered.
The regular petrol version offered in the old range – which was $7000 cheaper than the new hybrid – is no more, and the Accord e:HEV RS is about $10,000 more expensive than the top-of-the-range Toyota Camry Hybrid, when order books were open last year.
Honda has committed to a new Accord in Australia, despite it being outsold 73-to-one by the Camry last year, with just 144 Accords reported as sold across the country – or between one and two cars per dealership.
The new Accord is not all-new, rather a ‘reskin’ of its predecessor, with a new body and interior over updated underpinnings.
It is powered by an evolution of the previous model’s hybrid system, combining a 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol engine with two electric motors and an automatic transmission.
Honda says the 2.0-litre engine now runs direct injection to produce 108kW/182Nm, and the electric motors – a 135kW/335Nm ‘traction’ motor which drives the wheels, and a generator motor used to charge the battery – are now placed side-by-side, rather than in line with the engine crankshaft.
Yet the combined power rating of 152kW is lower than the 158kW of its predecessor.
The Accord’s hybrid system can propel the vehicle on electric power alone, or a mix of petrol and electric, with six levels of regenerative braking controlled by the paddles behind the steering wheel.
Standard features include 18-inch alloy wheels, a 12.3-inch touchscreen – the largest ever fitted to a Honda in Australia – plus the so-called Experience Selection Dial, a customisable control dial that can be mapped to different infotainment functions.
The 2024 Honda Accord is due in Australian showrooms in the coming weeks.
2024 Honda Accord price in Australia
- Accord e:HEV RS – $64,900 drive-away (up $3000 vs old VTi LX hybrid).
2024 Honda Accord e:HEV RS features:
- LED headlights with auto high beam
- LED tail-lights
- 18-inch alloy wheels
- 12.3-inch infotainment touchscreen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, built-in Google apps including Google Maps, over-the-air updates
- 10.2-inch digital instrument cluster
- 11.5-inch head-up display
- Experience selection dial
- 12-speaker Bose premium sound system
- Honda Connect app support
- Rear USB-C ports
- 360-degree camera
- Autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian, cyclist and motorcyclist detection
- Lane-keep assist
- Lane-centring assist
- Adaptive cruise control with stop function
- Blind-spot monitoring (warning only)
- Rear cross-traffic alert
- Traffic sign recognition
- Driver attention monitor
- Parking sensors
- Eight airbags (dual frontal, front-side, side curtain and driver/front passenger knee).
Available colours:
- Platinum White Pearlescent
- Lunar Silver Metallic
- Meteoroid Grey Metallic
- Crystal Black Pearlescent.
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