The Toyota Aygo X, currently thermal, becomes full-hybrid (F-HEV)
- By 2025, the world's leading carmaker, Toyota, still does not have a comprehensive range of battery electric vehicles.
• Within the Toyota brand, the BZ4X SUV is currently the only Toyota-designed BEV marketed in Europe before the launch of the Toyota CHR+ this fall. The battery electric ProAce , ProAce City, and ProAce Max vans are simply rebranded Stellantis vans. As for the confidential Mirai, it is a fuel cell sedan.
• Within the Lexus brand, only the UX and RZ SUVs (Lexus version of the Toyota BZ4X) are battery electric.
- The Toyota group has been focusing on full-hybrid (gasoline-electric) engines since the end of the 1990s . First introduced in the Prius, this type of alternative engine has been widely used on most models of the Toyota and Lexus brands.
- Aygo A-segment model had escaped this generalization of full-hybrid motorization.
- Toyota is now correcting this oversight. With the mid-life facelift of the Aygo X, launched in 2022 (in fact the third generation of the Aygo), Toyota is giving this model the full-hybrid powertrain it lacked and which replaces the thermal version. The model was equipped since the first generation with a 1.0 liter petrol engine. From 2025, the Aygo X abandons this engine to acquire the 1.5 liter full-hybrid engine of the Yaris, which required redesigning and lengthening the hood of the Aygo X by 7 cm, bringing the total length of the model to 3.77 m. The power of the Aygo X increases from 72 hp to 116 hp , which makes the model much more dynamic, but also more expensive. Inovev expects 120,000 units per year of the new Toyota Aygo X full-hybrid.