Though 2024 remains to be on the horizon, Lexus is already looking forward to the 2025 mannequin yr. The model detailed the 2025 UX 300h, which inaugurates a brand new, fifth-generation hybrid system that delivers extra energy. The crossover additionally will get new know-how options within the cabin.
Constructed round a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine, the hybrid drivetrain encompasses a pair of motor-generators, a repeatedly variable transmission (CVT), and a lithium-ion battery pack. For context, the UX presently in showrooms (which went hybrid-only for 2023) makes use of a nickel-metal hybride battery pack. Lexus additionally fitted a brand new hybrid transaxle to bump the system’s output to 196 horsepower, up from 181 within the 2024 automobile.
Lexus pegs the 2025 UX 300h’s 0-to-60-mph time at 8.0 seconds for the all-wheel-drive mannequin and seven.9 seconds for the front-wheel-drive model. It estimates that gasoline economic system in a mixed cycle will verify in at 41 mpg and 43 mpg, respectively, although EPA numbers aren’t out there but. For context, the all-wheel-drive 2024 mannequin takes 8.6 seconds to succeed in 60 mph from a cease and returns 39 mpg mixed, whereas the front-wheel-drive model posts figures of 8.4 and 42, respectively. These adjustments are small, however they need to make a distinction.
Copper Crest, an attention-grabbing shade first made out there on the RX crossover for the 2023 mannequin yr, joins the palette. Inside, the adjustments embrace a smaller shifter made doable by shift-by-wire know-how, redesigned buttons on the door panels, and extra chrome-finished trim. Whereas the bottom UX ships with a 7.0-inch digital instrument cluster, the Premium and F Sport fashions obtain a new-for-2025 12.3-inch unit. The infotainment system stays displayed on both an 8.0- or 12.3-inch touchscreen relying on the trim stage chosen.
Pricing for the 2025 Lexus UX 300h will probably be introduced nearer to its on-sale date. And whereas the crossover is the primary member of the Lexus vary to make use of the fifth-generation hybrid know-how, it is cheap to imagine the system will discover its manner into different fashions afterward.