A brand new technology of the Toyota Land Cruiser arrived for the 2024 mannequin yr, and it could be joined by a pair of electrical siblings within the years forward.

Toyota rolled out the Compact Cruiser EV idea in 2021 and the Land Cruiser Se idea in 2023, and Autocar reported on Friday that each ideas are destined for manufacturing as a part of Toyota’s plan to develop the attraction of the Land Cruiser nameplate and hold it related in a world of zero emissions.

The Compact Cruiser EV seems like a downsized model of the 2024 Land Cruiser and was designed to attraction to youthful patrons, particularly in city areas. Mercedes-Benz final September confirmed plans to focus on this area with a child G-Class powered by batteries. Land Rover can also be rumored to be engaged on its personal child Defender.

Whereas reviews out of Japan have claimed Toyota will launch a automobile just like the Compact Cruiser EV as quickly as this yr, however with fuel or presumably hybrid powertrains, Autocar reported that the Compact Cruiser EV will nonetheless be constructed, doubtless utilizing a model of Toyota’s E-TNGA platform that underpins the bZ4X. A launch date wasn’t talked about.

Toyota Land Cruiser Se idea

For Toyota followers who benefit from the rugged attraction of the Land Cruiser however need an EV with a contact of luxurious, Toyota will reportedly supply a manufacturing model of the Land Cruiser Se idea. The idea measured a number of inches longer than the 2024 Land Cruiser and featured a car-like unibody construction quite than the body-on-frame designs typical of off-road automobiles.

In line with Autocar, this upmarket SUV might arrive in 2026 to mark the Land Cruiser’s seventy fifth anniversary and have Toyota’s next-generation prismatic cell battery design that’s due across the identical time. Toyota has mentioned the brand new battery design might allow EVs with a variety of round 600 miles on a cost.

Toyota has already toyed with the concept of an electrical Land Cruiser. In 2021, the automaker constructed a prototype electrical Land Cruiser primarily based on the basic 70-series design kind the Nineteen Eighties, which Toyota nonetheless builds for business patrons resembling mining and forestry firms.