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| Toyota RAV4 2012 |
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| Toyota RAV4 2012 |
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| Toyota RAV4 2012 |
Toyota RAV4 2012
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| Toyota RAV4 2012 |
Toyota RAV4 2012
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| Toyota RAV4 2012 |
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| Toyota RAV4 2012 |
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| Toyota RAV4 2012 |
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| Toyota RAV4 2012 |
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| Toyota RAV4 2012 |
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| Toyota RAV4 2012 |
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| Toyota RAV4 2012 |
The 2012 Toyota Rav4 EV exterior looks a lot different than other Rav4 models, most notably the redefined front end. Comparing it to the 2011 Rav4, the EV version’s front end doesn’t have the front grilles, the fog lamps look to have been replaced 2012 Toyota Rav4 EV by LED daytime running lights, the whole front bumper is less defined in the 2012 Toyota Rav4 EV version, and the badge on the front carries Toyota’s ‘EV’ logo instead of the Toyota logo. Over at the back, the changes are equally noticeable, especially the smaller taillights, smaller rear bumper, and overall less defined features. Call us nit-pickers, but there seems to be something oddly plain and bland about the 2012 Toyota Rav4 EV. Whether that’s Toyota’s plan remains to be seen, but from the looks of things, the 2012 Toyota Rav4 EV looks a little vanilla in our eyes.
2012 Toyota Rav4 EV provided the vehicle for its latest EV, with Tesla building the battery and other powertrain components. The Japanese automaker said 35 vehicles will be built for a demonstration and evaluation program through 2011, “aiming at a market arrival of a fully engineered vehicle in 2012.” Pricing has not yet been announced.The 2012 Toyota Rav4 EV will have a range of about 100 miles.The 2012 Toyota Rav4 EV on the show floor here is powered by a lithium-metal-oxide battery with “usable output rated in the mid-30-kWh range,” said 2012 Toyota Rav4 EV. But it added that this battery may not end up in the production version.
* The RAV4 EV weighs 3,942 pounds, about 1,000 pounds of which are in the Tesla battery.
* The CUV can go from 0-60 in nine seconds.
* It has an official 100-mile-per-hour top speed (unofficially, test drivers have gotten it to over 103).
* The RAV4 EV has 73 cubic-feet of space, which is exactly the same as the standard RAV4 V6.
* Toyota is claiming a range that varies between 80 and 120 miles from the battery that has 37 kWh of useable energy. The engineers are guaranteeing that the RAV4 EV will beat the Nissan Leaf and its official EPA range of 73 miles. This is nice, but the RAV4 EV is bigger and heavier, an electron-guzzler or sorts, that gets just 2-3 miles per kWh (other EVs get around 4-5 miles), and we assume it will cost a lot more, too. Whatever the official range estimate ends up being, Toyota representatives told us that they will under promise and over deliver.
* The prototype has a Tesla charge port, but the production version will have the standard J1772 connector.
* The demonstration vehicles take ages to charge: 28 hours to fully charge over a standard 110 volt outlet (12 over 240V), but the production version, everyone promised us, will be “significantly improved.”
Toyota RAV4 2012
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