Like its parent company Toyota, The premium car manufacturer Lexus has lagged behind in the development of electric technologies. Please note, we are talking about 100% electric models! Because, on “electrified” models, two brands are leaders in the case Even predecessors, since Toyota offered its first hybrid (Prius) in 1997. Lexus introduced its RX SUV in 2005. So the two sisters know how to do it in this regard, and most of their range consists of hybrid or battery hybrid models.

Only the LC cabriolet is not available at Lexus. In Toyota Aygo X, sport GR, as well as utilities (including Land Cruiser). But he catches fish on pure electricity. At Toyota, the first bZ4X SUV took a long time to arrive, and its deliveries to France were chaotic. The Lexus RZ is starting to arrive at dealerships support the younger brother UX. The latter, which is considered primarily as a thermal model, is not the most successful electrical one.

Trust Lexus, not Toyota

The Toyota group, as you know, is not very fond of 100% electric. He prefers to use a hybrid (battery or not). As with hydrogen technologies, on which he made good progress. But with Europe’s heat ban in 2035, he knows he has to react. And expand your electrical range. Not to mention China, where electric registrations are growing rapidly and where Lexus and Toyota are historically strong. After the SUV, priority was given development of an electric family sedan. To compete with the Tesla Model 3, Hyundai IONIQ 6, and Polestar 2 in particular. Since these are mostly premium models, the group decided to entrust it to Lexus rather than Toyota. So it’s well and truly in the pipeline, and there’s already talk that it could be called the ‘IS’, just like the sedan previously offered here.

Sporty and quite successful style

The first drawings, from the patent application, it was already leaked! We are unveiling a three-body sedan with a silhouette and design that is not at all ordinary. she has four doors (with flush handles), trunk door box. The appearance is quite aggressive, even sporty, and this is not counting the outstanding thresholds quite well proportioned. The front part is narrower and less collected than the Lexus models we know. At the same time, the feed provides a certain dynamism spoiler raised in the center of the lights. The result is quite promising, despite these bland and colorless sketches. It is expected not earlier than 2025so we’ll have to wait a bit before discovering the color and trim palette. Our Japanese colleagues from BestCar, who got hold of these pictures, expect a power of 360 horsepower and a price of €52,000.