‘Tis the season for car announcements, apparently. Lexus just unveiled its first vehicle ever built from the ground up to be fully electric, though its inner mechanisms are kind of old news at this point since the Lexus RZ is built upon the same e-TNGA platform used in Toyota’s bZ4X and Subaru’s Solterra.
This may be Lexus’s first real step into the EV market, but the company is not exactly unfamiliar with the territory, as it points out in its press release. The first hybrid Lexus — the RX400h — debuted in 2005, just a few years after Toyota’s Prius touched down on U.S. soil. Lexus has also introduced other “electrified” versions of its gas-guzzling models in the years since.
