In the city, we can do nearly 100 kilometers with Toyota’s plug-in hybrid recreational vehicle. The RAV4 Plug-in Hybrid doesn’t just impress you with that, though.
It arrived late, but seems to be replaced in one go with Toyota’s first plug-in hybrid crossover, the RAV4 Plug-in Hybrid. In an increasingly saturated market, the 306-horsepower combined system power model is the first plug-in hybrid recreational vehicle to have an electrical range of up to 75 kilometers according to the WLTP standard. The situation is even brighter if we only drive in the city: due to the low speed, we can go up to 98 kilometers without emissions here.
Thanks to this option, the default mode of the RAV4 Plug-in Hybrid is electric: you don't even have to start the internal combustion engine when you start it, and you can stick to it up to 135 km / h, allowing for relatively intense accelerations. What exactly this means will be revealed when we can test the car.
On the other hand, it is necessary to activate the hybrid mode separately - the system will help the electric motor in this case if extra torque is required. There is also a third mode where it automatically switches between hybrid and electric, and a fourth in which the control focuses on charging the battery.
Compared to the standard (self-charging) RAV4 Hybrid, the capacity (18.1 kWh) and power of the liquid-cooled battery have been increased. That’s why the RAV4 Plug-in Hybrid comes standard with a 150-watt, 230-volt household outlet, from which you can run a lot from your laptop to your vacuum cleaner. The underfloor battery reduces trunk volume to a minimum (520 liters instead of 580 liters for the all-wheel-drive hybrid). The cargo floor has been raised 35 mm.
Plugged into a single outlet for 7.5 hours and using a wall charger to charge the battery in 2.5 hours, the on-board quick charger can work at up to 22 kW.
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