Toyota C-HR+ Arrives With A 373-Mile Range

Toyota has long resisted a wholesale transition to electric cars, hedging its bets on hybrid tech and exploring hydrogen. It seems the Japanese manufacturer is beginning to more widely embrace battery power though, with the reveal of just its third all-electric car.

This is the Toyota C-HR+, the car we’d seen teased a few weeks ago. If you’re a fan of forgotten concept cars, it might look familiar to you – taking heavy inspiration from the bZ Compact SUV Concept revealed at the 2022 Los Angeles Auto Show.

Most of that car’s design traits carry over – note the boomerang-esque headlights, two-tone roof and general chunkiness – albeit toned down a little for the usual regulation and production cost reasons.

It shares much with the other Toyota-badged electric car on sale today, the bZ4X, being based on the same e-TNGA platform. Three outputs will be offered – 165bhp and 221bhp front-driven versions, as well as a 338bhp all-wheel drive variant – matching that of the updated bZ4X which has been revealed at the same time.

Go for the 165bhp option and that’ll draw power from a 57.7kWh battery pack, quoted as offering a ‘cruising range’ of 276 miles on a single charge. The more powerful options get a 77kWh battery pack – strangely, larger than the new bZ4X’s biggest at 73.1kWh – which is quoted with a 356-mile range if you go for the 221bhp car. That dips to 323 miles for the most powerful version.

The C-HR+ is also said to get a ‘specially tuned’ suspension setup compared with the bZ4X, which we’ll interpret as an attempt to make it feel a bit sportier. We’re not getting too hopeful at this being some unexpected driver’s car, mind you.

That’s all we have for now on the Toyota C-HR+. Expect to hear more details ahead of its European launch later in 2025.