Toyota Prius 2024

If you’re hellbent on a Toyota, would you not consider a Bz4x ? If you can charge at home on a night rate, you’ll have significant savings on fuel.

Probably won’t hold much value once it starts to get older. Thousands of used Prius’s get imported from Japan every year, the market is full of them.

You’d be safe enough for the first 3 or 4 years tho.

Honda Civic is not plugin and way over priced for what it is, especially if you compare it to the likes of a Camry, which is the same technology.

A self charging hybrid. Think about it. It’s 100% petrol. Just get a petrol car

@Player_86 I think your thought process is good and your decision makes sense. The Prius is definitely a lovely car this generation, huge step up on the previous models.

You have a fair concern in the boot size but the price is where the main problem lies. 49k is very expensive for a Prius. If it's a PHEV you want and you're not tied to ordering brand new I would check for other used 2022/2023 options.

Crossovers like the RAV4, Tiguan, Sportage, Tucson, Kuga all have PHEV options and should be within your price range.

Saloons and hatches tend to be less popular but there are still good options. A Skoda Octavia PHEV will run you a good 10k less on average I think. You could probably even stretch to a used BMW 330e.

Is the 2024 Prius not a PHEV with a 13kWh battery ?

What about the Corolla estate if you need more space?

Actually it is self charging, well an option exists to self charge.

Thats funny, Fact imitating fiction,

When is the lower end versions of Prius coming to Ireland. I can see only plugin version in the website which looks expensive around 49k. Instead of that people could buy a Chinese EV for 40K or Bz4x or Tesla.

since Prius gives 50MPG, its a good option for next 3-4 years, until Toyota comes with solid state battery which has a range of 1200km.

I would have though that 'faff' and 'queuing' where the signs of pub talk alright.

Queues happen at sandyford.

I think that Prius is too expensive, in fact most makes are, the niro K4 or xceed would be my choice new, for 50k I would look at BMW 230xe, around the same range 1.5 l engine, but not Atkinson cycle.

I know but queuing is a possibility, in any EV,

From me in Lucan to Tralee is 286km for example. You wouldn't need to charge at all in a base Model Y, it will easily make it there (unless you hammer it)

@vimalandrew - "Then wait until 2027 when toyota comes with 1200 km solid state battery"

The one they have been announcing they'd have ready next year, for the last 10 years?

If I were a betting man and I was forced to put my money on what is likely to come first, A Toyota with a competition beating 1200km solid state battery or Toyota going bankrupt, I think I would bet on the latter

Why would Toyota care about anything the US or Musty says or does?