Toyota commits to 30 electric cars by 2030, including new electric Lexus sports car

(Pocket-lint) - Toyota has outlined its plans to modulation to the post-combustion era, with its Beyond Zero strategy. That's going to spot 30 artillery electrical car models released by 2030.

Toyota has been comparatively dilatory to get up and moving with artillery vehicles, contempt having been a person successful hybrids for galore years. Now, the committedness seems firm, pursuing up aft the announcement of the archetypal artillery electrical model, the Toyota bZ4X, which was unveiled successful November 2021 and expected successful 2022.

This is really going to beryllium a household of vehicles sitting connected a communal level - called e-TNGA - and volition beryllium joined by a mid-size SUV and a compact SUV.

The compact exemplary is designed for Japan and Europe, volition person a smaller artillery owed to its size and is designed astir efficiency. Will this beryllium the compact and affordable electrical car to deed the large time?

There volition besides beryllium a ample electrical SUV with a 3rd enactment of seats to implicit the bZ series. These volition beryllium bespoke wide marketplace electrical cars successful summation to electrical versions of electrical models.

It's not conscionable Toyota-branded cars that volition get the electrical treatment, Lexus besides aims to determination to 100 per cent electrical sales.

There is already and electrical Lexus disposable - the Lexus UX 300e - and that volition beryllium joined by the Lexus RZ, different SUV model. Lexus' absorption is much connected refinement and luxury than the wide marketplace attack offered by Toyota.

The showcase car is apt to beryllium Lexus' sports car. Currently conscionable called Sports Battery EV, there's the committedness of acceleration successful the "low 2 2nd range" and 700km (430 miles) of scope - and if solid-state batteries tin marque it into production, it's present you'll find it.

Lexus volition beryllium leaning connected the learnings from the LFA for the improvement of this caller sports car.

The purpose is for Toyota to merchantability 3.5 cardinal artillery electrical cars by 2030, portion Lexus is targeting 1 cardinal sales, globally. There's a batch of item and a batch of launches to travel implicit the adjacent decennary - but we're near hoping that there's thing affordable successful the smaller car abstraction wherever Toyota has done truthful good successful the past - electrical Aygo oregon Yaris anyone?

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 14 December 2021.