Toyota Releases RAV4 EV Range and MPGe Figures

By Eric Loveday · September 17, 2012

The Toyota RAV4 EV is officially rated by the EPA at 103 miles of electric range.

Buried within Toyota's most recent RAV4 EV press release is the vital information that all plug-in vehicle fans have been waiting for: The RAV4 EV received an EPA rated range of 103 miles; 78 city miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe); 74 highway MPGe; and 76 combined MPGe.

Toyota's presser skims over those vital numbers and instead focuses mainly on special financing and a customer lease option for the 2012 RAV4 EV. According to Toyota, the RAV4 EV will come with a pre-incentive price tag of $49,800 and will officially go on sale at select dealer scattered throughout California during the week of September 24, 2012.

Toyota says "customers will have the option of a purchase or lease program." Special purchase financing of 1.9 percent APR will be available for qualified customers, as well as a 36-month lease, but at $599 per month with $3,499 due at signing, the RAV4 EV is the most expensive EV currently on the U.S. market, excluding luxury electrics from Tesla and Fisker. Toyota will only make and sell 2,600 units through the end of 2014.

The RAV4 EV will qualify for a $2,500 rebate through California's Clean Vehicle Rebate Program and will be eligible for a $7,500 Federal Tax Credit. As an added perk, all electric vehicles qualify for California's High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane white sticker program.

If interested in purchasing or leasing the RAV4 EV, then check out Toyota's dedicated site for additional information.

Comments

· Bill Howland, (not verified) · 35 weeks ago

@Eric:

Lookin' good! Any Idea when New Yorkers can purchase this?

· tterbo · 35 weeks ago

Looks nice. I wonder if it'll be safer on rollover scores with the massive battery on the bottom.

· Spec (not verified) · 35 weeks ago

Nice to see them get an EPA rated range of more than 100.

But damn . . . that is pretty expensive.

· tterbo · 35 weeks ago

Spec: Agreed and agreed.

· Priusmaniac · 35 weeks ago

Will the new RAV4 EV be compatible with a Long Ranger show here:
http://evnut.com/rav_longranger.htm
and will Toyota perhaps propose its own version of Long Ranger with the Toyota brand on it?

· VoltOwner (not verified) · 35 weeks ago

All authors on this website need to know that the federal tax credit for electric vehicle purchase has ended. The instructions for the quarterly payments said so.

· Tom Moloughney · 35 weeks ago

Sorry VoltOwner but that is not true. The Federal tax credit is still available. There has been no change.

· Michael · 35 weeks ago

$50,000 for a RAV 4 is just crazy. I don't care if it powered by plutonium.

This is not going to sell.

· EvDriver (not verified) · 35 weeks ago

I hope that this lowers the price of the used Toyota Rav4-ev's, it always blew me away that people would be willing to pay $45,000 for a ten year old used EV, but hopefully those people will opt to buy a brand new Rav4-ev instead and let the price on used ev's drop to more reasonable levels.

· Anonymous (not verified) · 35 weeks ago

Lol. Americans are funny. You think $50,000 for a RAV4 is too much. I just paid $57,000 for a Nissan Leaf here in Australia. If this Rav4EV went on sale in Australia it would probably go for $90,000

· tterbo · 35 weeks ago

Speaking of price, I met my own contradiction while standing outside of Costco after posting that $50k was a lot. They had a Cadillac SRX in front of the food court. I didn't know Cadillac made SUV's until that moment, but whatever. The vehicle had a 3 out of 10 EPA rating for smog. Maybe the thing is made out of smog I don't know. The best part was the price, $47k. I decided to take a peek inside to see what could justify that. I was expecting LCD panels everywhere like the Tesla Model S. Nope, none of that. All I could see were leather seats to tan you in the summer and freeze you in the winter. Maybe it was the victim of poor steel bargaining. :)

· Anonymous (not verified) · 35 weeks ago

Why buy a Leaf or a Rav4 when you can get a Chevy Volt for $39,000 before incentives.

· Tom Moloughney · 35 weeks ago

Anonymous: The volt is a really nice car and works very well for a lot of people but some people don't want to buy less gas, they want to buy NO gas. Plug in hybrids like the volt are very versatile and allow people that aren't ready for a pure electric car to drive on electricity, but there are plenty of people that don't need or want the versatility of a range extender.

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