An electrical successor to the Toyota Yaris is within the firm’s plans – however that is not the best second for it now, Base instructed Autocar.

The Supermini is the Japanese model’s greatest vendor within the UK and the second greatest in Europe. It bought about 22,000 examples right here final yr, accounting for about 21% of its gross sales.

When requested a couple of Yaris EV that joins the lineout, Andrea Carlucci, product and advertising and marketing boss, instructed Autocar: ‘That is the thought, however now it is not one thing we’re speaking about.

“We intentionally determined to begin (our electrical automotive gross sales) within the quickest rising segments (C, D and E). The suitable second will present up, however it’s not fairly now.”

Toyota at present has a three-strong EV sequence, which consists of the brand new C-HR+, up to date BZ4X and Suzuki-made city Cruiser. Carlucci mentioned that the SUVs with a smaller mannequin are “a selection”.

So far as the UK is worried, receiving the Renault 5 reveals that there’s an urge for food for such a automotive right here, the agreed British boss Scott Thompson.

“There will probably be a time and place,” he mentioned. “For us, it is about the best automotive, the best place on the proper time, it is actually. And proper now, the enlargement you see is the best segments for Europe for us proper now. “

A Toyota Electrical Supermini is more likely to arrive within the final a part of the last decade, because the three new EVs that can launch the model by the top of 2026 are a bakkie, a fastback and an SUV.

If it does, the Yaris identify is anticipated, as Carlucci instructed Autocar that future Toyota EVs ‘well-known’ names of ‘present vehicles’ will take, such because the not too long ago revealed C-HR+.