Lexus has revealed the “LF-Z Electrified” concept car, which previews the design of the Japanese brand’s future EV models.
The all-wheel drive concept incorporates styling and technology elements that Lexus plans to realise by 2025.
By that time it also plans to have introduced 20 new or upgraded models, including more than 10 battery electric (BEVs), plug-in hybrid electric (PHEVs), and self-charging hybrid electric (HEVs) to meet what it says are the needs of different countries and regions around the world.
Lexus further says it will strengthen its core saloon and SUV ranges and explore the possibility of introducing new vehicle types, such as sports models, cars appropriate for chauffeur driving, and models “in entirely new categories”.
The company is also currently working on a new business and technology centre that is set to open in Shimoyama in central Japan in March of 2024. This will bring Lexus engineers and designers together in one location along with the brand’s product planners.
The LF-Z Electrified concept, meanwhile, is described as having “a simple and captivating shape” that will be carried by all Lexus models in the future.
Measuring 4,880 mm long, 1,960 mm wide, and 1,600 mm tall, the SUV-styled concept is built on an all-new EV platform that also incorporates a new “Direct4” four-wheel drive system, which the car’s exterior design is claimed to reference “with seamless, dynamic changes in the surface of the doors from the front to the rear” as well as in the treatment of the wheel arches.
