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The Lexus UX300e has reached the top of the highway in Australia, the place the small electrical SUV has been discontinued lower than two years after it acquired a considerable replace.
“The UX300e will not be accessible in Australia on account of manufacturing restrictions on chosen components,” an organization spokesperson confirmed to CarExpert following the disappearance of the UX300e from the Lexus Australia web site.
When requested whether or not it can reintroduce the pint-size battery-powered luxurious SUV ought to these manufacturing restrictions finish, Lexus Australia confirmed there aren’t any plans at this stage to take action.
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“Nevertheless, Lexus Australia stays dedicated to electrification, with near 80 per cent of deliveries to date this 12 months being with an electrified powertrain,” stated the spokesperson.
“Lexus has simply launched a plug-in hybrid choice for RX [the brand’s large SUV] because it continues its management with industry-leading hybrids, and can quickly add the updated all-electric RZ [mid-size electric SUV] to its lineup.”
To the top of April this 12 months, Lexus has delivered solely 28 examples of the compact UX300e, which is priced north of $80,000, in contrast with 614 hybrid UXs and 54 RZs.
Final 12 months, it bought 92 UX300e automobiles, accounting for 10 per cent of whole UX gross sales. That noticed it outsold by not solely the bigger and dearer RZ (215), but additionally direct rivals just like the BMW iX1 (2618), Volvo EX30 (2129) and Mercedes-Benz EQA (1044).
Lexus Australia launched an up to date UX300e late in 2023, bringing a bigger 72.8kWh lithium-ion battery that boosted WLTP electrical driving vary by 135km to 450km.
It additionally acquired a bigger 12.3-inch touchscreen operating Lexus’ new-generation infotainment system.
Energy continued to come back from a 150kW/300Nm front-mounted electrical motor, with no dual-motor all-wheel drive model accessible, in contrast to key rivals.
The Lexus UX first entered manufacturing in 2018, and was initially accessible solely with petrol or hybrid powertrains earlier than an all-electric choice was added later and the bottom petrol UX200 was discontinued.
It served as a extra premium counterpart to the Toyota C-HR, which entered manufacturing in 20216, although it wears fully totally different styling inside and outside.
Given Toyota has now launched a brand new C-HR, and revealed a small electrical SUV referred to as the C-HR+, a new-generation Lexus UX ought to theoretically be across the nook. Nevertheless, no prototypes have been spied testing as but.
The demise of the UX300e in Australia leaves Lexus with only one electrical automobile (EV).
That’s in stark distinction with rivals, which supply a number of. BMW, for example, has seven, whereas Mercedes-Benz additionally has seven (excluding vans and other people movers), Audi has 4 and Genesis has three. Cadillac additionally has just one, however has confirmed it can launch two extra electrical mannequin traces for Australia in 2026.
As soon as the RX450h+ arrives, Lexus may have two plug-in hybrid (PHEV) fashions, matching Audi and surpassing each Genesis and Cadillac (none but), in addition to Mercedes-Benz (one), however falling in need of BMW (4).
However the Toyota-owned premium Japanese model has all of them beat on the subject of typical hybrids, providing eight in whole.
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