Electric Lexus ES sedans could join hybrids

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Lexus appears to beryllium readying an enlargement of its ES sedan lineup, with the mid-sized sedan perchance getting caller electrical variants.

Trademark filings uncovered by AutoGuide amusement Lexus has filed to support the ES 350h, ES 350e, and ES 500e nameplates which, based connected the brand’s naming structure, points to a caller hybrid exemplary and 2 electrical models.

Lexus has antecedently revealed a conception mentation of what looks to beryllium an electrical IS replacement with the Electrified Sedan Concept, but it hasn’t previewed an electrical ES successor.

The rear-wheel thrust IS athletics sedan departed Australia successful precocious 2021 pursuing the instauration of stricter broadside interaction regulations, leaving the much comfort-focused, front-wheel thrust ES arsenic its entry-level sedan. The IS survives successful different markets.

The ES is offered present arsenic a petrol-powered ES 250 oregon a hybrid ES 300h, with overseas markets similar the US besides getting a V6-powered ES 350.

The trademarked ES 350h nameplate points to a perchance much almighty hybrid system. The existent ES 300h has a full strategy output of 160kW, portion the NX 350h crossover has 179kW.

It’s unclear what outputs we could expect from a aboriginal ES 350e oregon ES 500e, though it’s imaginable the erstwhile could diagnostic a azygous electrical centrifugal and the second dual-motor all-wheel drive.

Lexus’ existent electrical offerings are constricted to the UX and RZ SUVs, which commencement astatine $80,720 and $123,000 earlier on-road costs, respectively.

The Japanese luxury marque has antecedently confirmed it plans to beryllium electric-only by 2035.