Toyota announces the first official data and teasers of its electric SUV

question the Toyota leadership in hybridization it is impossible. The Japanese firm, based in Aichi Prefecture, has been innovating in this area for years. However, to get into the pure electrification they have decided to wait for their rivals to take the first steps. The reasons for this are many and varied, but the main and basic one has to do with the cost of batteries. Now that they are shorter, they take the step decisively.

Its first electric model (avoiding the Mirai) came from Lexus. The UX300e It meant a before and after but it is not an obstacle for them to rest on their laurels. For this reason they have updated the TNGA base to adapt it to electrification. Now they present in society the e-TNGA platform and three teasers very interesting. With them they show what their first electric C-SUV and rival for the new Volkswagen ID.4.

Toyota's e-TNGA platform will be the basis for this EV SUV

As Toyota explains in the press release, this base is very flexible. Its basic principle is simple: some mechanical organs are fixed and others can change their position. In this way they change the distance between axes, the length, width and height of the vehicle that they are developing. To this we must add that, depending on the electric motors mounted, the e-TNGA base offers propulsion, front-wheel drive and all-wheel drive.

All this versatility will help significantly reduce the time needed to develop your electrical. But Toyota has not wanted to stay in technical details. As we have mentioned, they have published a first teaser that shows the line that this electric SUV will wear. Although we cannot go into details, due to the lack of data, its silhouette is very stylized and, in part, it resembles the one worn by the new Highlander y Venza.

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With everything, the technical development of this mysterious electric Toyota is coming to an end. Moreover, the brand ensures that they are already enabling the assembly line where it will be assembled. It will take place in the ZEV factory they have in Japan and from it will reach the whole world. Finally, they announce that the rest of the data will arrive in the coming months but it gives us in the nose that some leak will ruin the surprise. Bets allowed gentlemen...

Source - Toyota