Whitigir

How come Lexus didn't make Plug-in for RX-350 or CT-h

Sulu

You would need much greater capacity battery, increasing weight, increasing price, decreasing cargo room and decreasing performance.

Hoovey689

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You'll see Plug-in's more widespread on Toyota models before you do Lexus. Which is perfectly fine

Whitigir

Wuld love to see a lexus plug in as i work 10 miles from home !

spwolf

because their Prius PHEV doesnt sell well... right now, tech is simply not there, if they start doing some better batteries, i am sure we will see plugins... Although, cars like RX450h are too heavy to be plugins... much better something like Prius or Camry or ES300h.

RXSF

The short answer is cost. In order to produce something like that, they have to sell in large numbers. Lexus only sells about 2000 hybrids a month, not nearly enough to make a profit.

Toyota/Lexus does not create products for the sake of creating them; there has to be some sort of monetary benefit

spwolf

they sell 3500 per month in the USA actually :-)

Probably double that in the rest of the world, or more...