The Toyota Prius Prime adjustments its identify to the Prius Plug-In Hybrid for the 2025 mannequin 12 months, however it’s nonetheless the identical fuel-efficient hatchback.
Toyota is nixing the Prime badge from each the Prius and RAV4 plug-in hybrids in a transfer to recast them as interchangeable with plug-in hybrids from different automakers. It believes this can assist customers extra simply determine the plug-in hybrids by adopting a naming conference utilized by different manufacturers.
2025 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid
Nonetheless, the 2025 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid nonetheless carries the ethos of the Prime badge—which was launched in 2016 on the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime—in outperforming different plug-in hybrids in most if not all methods.
The carryover specs imply the Prius Plug-In Hybrid nonetheless extracts 220 hp and 139 lb-ft of torque from its 2.0-liter inline-4 and hybrid system. All-wheel drive is just not out there like on the usual Prius hybrid, however Toyota quotes a brisk 6.6-second 0-60 mph time.
2025 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid
With a 13.6-kwh battery pack, the Prius Plug-In Hybrid presents as much as 44 miles of EPA electrical vary in base SE spec, or 39 miles within the higher-level (and heavier) XSE and XSE Premium grades. SE fashions are rated at 51 mpg mixed in hybrid mode, whereas XSE and XSE Premium fashions obtain 47 mpg mixed. That is lower than the usual hybrid scores of 49 mpg and 57 mpg mixed, however we have discovered that the helpful electrical vary and highly effective motors make all-electric driving the norm.
Pricing data will likely be launched nearer to the Prius Plug-In Hybrid’s arrival at dealerships. To this point Toyota has caught to the gross sales sample that works finest with California Air Sources Board (CARB) rules, emphasizing gross sales in California and different CARB states. With that technique, plug-in hybrids made up 21% of U.S. Prius gross sales for the 2023 mannequin 12 months.
