Lexus RX - Tesla are building an electric version for Toyota
Tesla are building two electric prototypes for Toyota, which we believe are an electric RAV4 and an electric Lexus RX
I suppose it is logical once you’ve pinned your colours to the mast on the half-electric hybrid future that a logical extension would be all electric versions. And that seems to be what Toyota are planning with an all electric Toyota RAV4 and an electric Lexus RX.
Which probably won’t come as too much of a surprise if you read here regularly. If you do you’ll already know that Toyota has been toying with Tesla lately, and even divvied up £35 million for a chunk of Tesla stock.
Perhaps more significantly Toyota also brought to the table their car plant in Fremont California, which used to make the Corolla and Tacoma. We were told it was perfect for Tesla to build the Model S. Which it probably is – in one small corner.
The Fremont plant used to build 500,000 Toyota’s a year before Toyota mothballed it. So far in its entire existence Tesla has made 1,000 cars. Even if they can bring off the Model S – and that still seems a sizeable if – they will never come close to utilising the capacity. So electric Toyotas in the same plant seems a logical conclusion.
We’ll see.
