Toyota’s next EV is this small Urban Cruiser SUV for Europe

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

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

Toyota’s Urban Cruiser has astir match-for-match specs arsenic the E Vitara, including a comparatively tiny 49 kWh artillery with an FWD drivetrain and a 61 kWh artillery with an enactment for AWD.

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

Additionally, the Urban Cruiser has downhill assistance and way modes for added control, and the FWD exemplary includes a snowfall mode. All models travel with a vigor pump and see the quality to manually commencement preconditioning the artillery to hole for a DC accelerated charging session.

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

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