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The car manufacturer confirmed details for its 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid crossover, due next year, that adds an even bigger hybrid battery to its hybrid powertrain which will power the crossover up to thirty-nine miles on wattage alone. The crossover can create 302 combined H.P. and drive all four wheels, and speed up to sixty mph in but six seconds—the second-fastest Toyota within the lineup.

With the 2021 RAV4 Prime, Toyota offers AN extremist fuel-efficient vehicle with surprising performance potential. (Eds note: It wouldn't be the primary time, the entertainer within the Lexus lineup for years was the LS hybrid sedan.)

Like the RAV4 Hybrid, the RAV4 Prime is high-powered by a two.5-liter inline-4 that produces 176 H.P. and 168 pound-feet alone. In back, electrical motors drive the rear shaft and wheels once there's less grip up front, or in gaudy driving to assist mitigate understeer. Toyota didn't specify the scale of the batteries nor the facility output of the electrical motors. Interior area isn't compromised, in keeping with Toyota, since the lithium-ion battery pack mounts below the ground, that conjointly provides a lower center of gravity.

Reflecting the character of the RAV4 Prime, Toyota can create offered the plug-in hybrid in sportier SE and XSE grades—the latter adding a two-tone black roof, 19-inch wheels, and Supersonic Red color. Inside, the XSE adds artificial animal skin upholstery, wireless smartphone charger, and paddle-shifters. The paddle-shifters not solely just about downshift, however conjointly management energy healing for the battery pack.

The SE offers AN eight.0-inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and robot automobile compatibility, the XSE ups that to a nine.0-inch touchscreen. once equipped, the RAV4 Prime will use navigation information to be a lot of economical.

The XSE adds elective JBL audio, heated and cooled front seats, broad moonroof, heated handwheel, a surround-view camera system, and hands-free power tailgate.

Toyota didn't say what proportion the 2021 RAV4 Prime would price once it goes on sale within the summer