, known as the Tarago or Previa in certain markets, will be making a return as a fully electric MPV, with Japanese publication Best Car Web stating that the EV will arrive sometime in 2025. In 2021, the publication had, with the electric MPV set to come about this year, so it’s pretty much just a shift in the timeline.
The present report indicates that the electric MPV will sit on an improved version of the automaker’s e-TNGA platform, which would allow for either front-drive or all-wheel drive applications, and have an operating range of around 600 km on a single charge. The publication also ventures that pricing for the model will start from the 6.5 to seven million yen mark.
In previous communications of its electrification path, the company never intimated anything along the lines of the Estima – which was discontinued in late 2019 – in its intended model line-up. If it does come about as suggested, the electric Estima should be rebadged as a bZ model, in line with the automaker’s chosen nomenclature for its electric vehicles.
It will also be the brand’s first all-electric MPV. Despite having a variety of differently-sized people movers such as theAnthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap.