Toyota electric cars

Australia's top-selling mainstream brand for over two decades, entering battery-electric passenger vehicles cautiously and late via the bZ4X, with a plug-in hybrid RAV4 following in 2026.

Toyota Motor Corporation was incorporated on 28 August 1937 in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. Its Australian operations trace to 1959 (Thiess Toyota importing Land Cruisers for the Snowy Mountains Scheme), with local assembly beginning in 1963 at Australian Motor Industries' Port Melbourne plant — Australia was the first country outside Japan to build Toyota vehicles. Full local manufacturing (via the Altona plant) ran from 1994 until Toyota ended Australian car production in 2017.

Toyota's first battery-electric model in Australia, the bZ4X mid-size SUV, was repeatedly delayed (originally targeted for late 2022, pushed through 2023, and finally launching in February 2024) — Toyota's own dealer network cited a global wheel-hub-bolt recall as a contributing factor. The bZ4X received a substantial 2026 update: more power, longer range, extra standard equipment and steep price cuts (entry FWD down $10,010 to $55,990, AWD down $6,910 to $67,990), plus a new range-topping Touring dual-motor wagon variant (280kW, 4.4s 0-100km/h) from $69,990, all before on-road costs. Toyota is also bringing its first Australian plug-in hybrid — a PHEV variant of the redesigned sixth-generation RAV4 — in 2026, alongside its long-standing (non-plug) hybrid range.

mainstream volume leader, deliberately cautious/late BEV entrant

Battery-electric: bZ4X mid-size SUV (FWD, AWD, and the new dual-motor Touring wagon variant). A RAV4 PHEV is due in 2026 as Toyota's first Australian plug-in hybrid, alongside the brand's much larger conventional (non-plug) hybrid range.