Toyota’s Next Ev Is This Small Urban Cruiser Suv For Europe

Toyota revealed its latest all-electric conveyance coming arsenic nan Urban Cruiser compact SUV. The EV, which will beryllium afloat revealed astatine nan Brussels Motor Show adjacent month, is intended for nan European market, first coming to nan UK successful nan 3rd 4th of 2025.

Toyota says nan wheelbase is only astir 5 inches longer than nan European-only Yaris Cross, making it different fun-sized electrical EV slated for nan continent for illustration nan precocious revealed Ford Puma Gen-E aliases Hyundai Inster.

The Urban Cruiser has clear creation inspiration from past year's Urban SUV concept. It too shares its caller EV level built successful conjunction pinch Suzuki, which announced its made-in-India E Vitara SUV past month. Toyota’s different EV, nan bZ4X, too shares its EV level pinch different automaker, Subaru, which has nan Solterra EV.

Toyota’s Urban Cruiser has astir match-for-match specs arsenic nan E Vitara, including a comparatively mini 49 kWh artillery pinch an FWD drivetrain and a 61 kWh artillery pinch an action for AWD.

Toyota says powerfulness output tin get arsenic precocious arsenic 135kW successful nan AWD type (with 40kW connected nan rear axel for “stable and unafraid capacity connected loose and slippery surfaces”) and up to 300 Nm of torque. While nan charismatic scope is not announced, it’ll apt lucifer nan E Vitara’s expected 248 miles connected a azygous charge.

Additionally, nan Urban Cruiser has downhill assistance and measurement modes for added control, and nan FWD exemplary includes a snowfall mode. All models recreation pinch a powerfulness pump and spot nan expertise to manually commencement preconditioning nan artillery to spread for a DC accelerated charging session.

Toyota has been slower successful building and adopting EVs than different bequest manufacturers. The automaker has been focused connected its outstanding hybrid exertion arsenic bully arsenic hydrogen vehicles.

But nan automaker isn’t done pinch EVs — it’s readying to personification 15 EVs, including six models connected a next-gen shared level by 2026, and it conscionable invested astir different $1 cardinal successful Kentucky for a overgarment installation to spread for a three-row electrical SUV for nan US.