Coming in 2025
Toyota has long given up on electric cars, but the brand’s international EV offering will grow steadily in the coming years. Toyota is now announcing the arrival of a brand new electric SUV with three rows of seats and therefore at least seven seats.
In the Netherlands, Toyota sells the electric bZ4X and electric versions of cars such as the ProAce City (Verso) and ProAce (Verso) and of course also offers hydrogen EV Mirai. In China, Toyota also offers an electric sedan in the form of the bZ3. Toyota is now reporting the arrival of a new electric SUV with three rows of seats, a big boy that certainly offers space for seven occupants.
Toyota’s electric seven-seat SUV will roll off the line at Toyota’s plant in Kentucky from 2025. Those as yet unnamed newcomer batteries on board that come from Toyota’s factory in the state of North Carolina. That factory is not there yet, but we are currently working hard on it. Toyota is investing almost €2 billion extra in that production facility. That brings the total amount that Toyota invests in that plant to almost €6 billion. Two electric models and four hybrid models will eventually be produced in Kentucky.
The announced electric SUV will be the first electric car it will produce in the United States, according to the brand. That is not entirely true. In California (Fremont), Toyota screwed together a small series of second-generation electric RAV4s between 2012 and 2014. It is not yet clear whether Toyota’s electric seven-seater SUV will also come to Europe.
Pictured: Toyota bZ4X.
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