Toyota is “loading the bases” with a wave of recent absolutely electrical, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid automobiles set to launch over the subsequent few months. The long-awaited Toyota Highlander EV is lastly about to make its first look.
When will Toyota launch the Highlander EV?
Following the RAV4, the Highlander and Grand Highlander are Toyota’s best-selling SUVs within the US. Nevertheless, with extra patrons choosing the bigger Grand mannequin, gross sales of the usual Highlander are struggling.
Given the upper demand, Toyota introduced earlier this month that it might consolidate EV manufacturing into its Kentucky plant to unencumber house for the Grand Highlander.
Toyota was anticipated to start constructing a brand new electrical SUV at its Princeton, Indiana, facility, however that can now be made in Kentucky in 2028. Within the meantime, the corporate is including a brand new meeting line in Indiana to spice up Grand Highlander output.
In accordance with Automotive Information, Toyota will construct the brand new EV alongside a bigger three-row electrical SUV in Kentucky.
The three-row SUV is predicted to launch because the Highlander EV with Toyota shifting away from the present “bZ” naming scheme.
With manufacturing slated to start later subsequent 12 months, the Toyota Highlander EV is predicted to reach as a 2027 mannequin 12 months car. The bigger electrical SUV might even debut by the top of 2025.
Toyota stated in a press release that it “plans to provide two all-new, three-row battery electrical SUVs within the US” as beforehand introduced, including “now assemble each automobiles at Toyota Kentucky.”
The Highlander EV can be one in every of seven new electrical automobiles Toyota plans to launch within the US by mid-2027. Later this 12 months, the brand new bZ electrical SUV (beforehand generally known as the bZ4X) will arrive with important upgrades, together with elevated driving vary and an added NACS port for recharging at Tesla Superchargers.
Subsequent 12 months, Toyota will observe it up with the smaller 2026 Toyota C-HR and bZ Woodland. Each electrical SUVs promise drastic enhancements from the bZ4X.
Earlier this 12 months, David Christ, VP of Toyota Motor North America, informed CNBC throughout an interview that the automaker’s upcoming lineup of EVs, hybrids, and PHEVs was like having the bases loaded in a baseball sport.
