2027 Toyota C-HR BEV Confirmed for Australia: Electric C-HR Due Mid-2027 With a 74.7kWh Battery, Price Still to Come

Image credit: Toyota Australia. Overseas model shown.

Toyota is adding a second electric SUV nameplate to its Australian range. The all-electric C-HR was confirmed for this market by Toyota Australia on 11 November 2025, and the company says it is expected to arrive in mid-2027, where it will sit alongside the bZ4X and bZ4X Touring. Almost a year on, that announcement is still everything Toyota Australia has published about the car: a battery size, a motor output, some charging and range targets, a cargo figure and a promise of two grades. There is no price.

That is a thin brief, but it is enough to answer the first question most buyers will ask, which is what this car actually is. It is not a C-HR hybrid with the engine taken out. And once you set its figures beside the electric Toyota already in showrooms, it looks a lot like a smaller, sleeker version of the bZ4X FWD. Here is what is confirmed, what that tells you, and what is still missing.

What Toyota Australia Has Confirmed

Everything in this table comes from Toyota Australia's own announcement. Where Toyota calls a figure a target, so do we.

Toyota also says every variant will get natural voice recognition, Toyota Connected Services and what it calls a full suite of Toyota Safety Sense active safety technology, and that four levels of regenerative braking can be selected with paddles on the steering wheel. Toyota's footnote on Connected Services says fees and limitations apply, so check what is free and for how long when the car is priced.

It Is Not the Hybrid C-HR With a Plug

This is the point most worth getting straight before you walk into a dealer. Toyota Australia says the electric C-HR "features its own unique architecture" and is built on the same e-TNGA dedicated electric platform that sits under the bZ4X. It shares a name and a styling theme with the C-HR hybrid you can buy today, and not much else.

Toyota says the electric car has larger exterior dimensions and a longer wheelbase than the hybrid, which buys more interior space. It quotes 900mm of "couple distance", the gap between front and rear occupants, and 416 litres of overall cargo volume. For comparison, we list the hybrid C-HR GXL with a 388-litre boot. Toyota has not yet published the electric car's length, width, height or wheelbase for Australia, so how much bigger it is on the road is still an open question.

What that means in practice: if you like the C-HR's look but found the back seat tight, the electric version is designed to be roomier. If you like the hybrid because it is a small, easy car to park, wait for the dimensions before assuming the electric one will be just as compact.

A Smaller Body Around the bZ4X's Numbers

Line the C-HR's confirmed figures up against the front-wheel drive bZ4X and the overlap is hard to miss. Both figures below come from Toyota Australia's own announcements.

Same battery size, the same power figure, and torque that differs only by rounding. The C-HR gives up 36 litres of cargo space to the bZ4X and gets a 0.26Cd body in return.

The one comparison you should not make yet is range. The bZ4X FWD's 591km is a WLTP figure, which Toyota says is what appears on its energy consumption label. The C-HR's "over 500km" is a target, and Toyota's announcement does not say which test cycle it refers to. Until Toyota publishes a certified WLTP number for the C-HR, the honest answer is that we do not know how the two compare, and a lower drag figure on paper is not a range result. Treat "over 500km" as a floor Toyota is aiming for, not a result.

Charging is the same story. Toyota quotes a 30-minute 10 to 80 per cent target for the C-HR and says battery pre-conditioning helps it hit that "regardless of weather conditions". It has not published the C-HR's peak DC power. The bZ4X is rated at 150kW DC. Toyota's own footnote also recommends keeping DC fast charging to a minimum and notes that charging slows above 80 per cent, which applies to every electric car, not just this one.

What It Will Cost, and Why We Will Not Guess

Toyota Australia has not priced the electric C-HR, and it says pricing and grade specification will be revealed closer to launch. We are not going to put a number on it. What we can tell you is what it will be measured against.

Inside Toyota's own range, the bZ4X FWD is $55,990 plus on-road costs, the bZ4X AWD is $67,990 and the bZ4X Touring is $69,990. If the C-HR lands anywhere near the bZ4X FWD, the question for buyers becomes simple: the same battery size and near-identical outputs in a smaller, sportier shape with a bit less cargo room, or the bigger, more practical body. Toyota has said the C-HR will sit alongside the bZ4X, not that it will be cheaper, and it has not said where in the range it will be priced.

Outside Toyota, the market it arrives into is already crowded with small and mid-size electric SUVs at checked list prices. The Geely EX5 Complete is $41,990 before on-roads, the Kia EV3 Air Standard Range is $47,600, the Volvo EX30 Plus Single Motor is $49,990 and the Tesla Model Y RWD is $58,900 before delivery and on-road costs. The BYD Atto 3 EVO Dynamic is another obvious rival; we list it with a 60.5kWh battery and 420km WLTP.

On battery size, a 74.7kWh pack is bigger than the batteries we list for the EV3 Air Standard Range (58.3kWh), the EX5 Complete (68.4kWh) and the EX30 Plus (69kWh). A big battery is expensive to build, and that is one reason not to assume the C-HR will undercut those cars. The other is that Toyota has not said it will.

The Cars You Can Buy Instead, Today

The C-HR BEV is not on sale, so it is not in the comparison below. What is in it are the bZ4X FWD it will sit beside and four smaller or similarly priced electric SUVs you can order now. Pick any two.

The range estimator below is a better way to think about any of these than a laboratory number. Put in your own commute, speed and weather and see what a given battery size really means for you. For the C-HR, use the bZ4X FWD as a stand-in on battery size until Toyota publishes a certified figure. You can also open the range estimator full-screen.

The Tax Timing Is the Real Story for Lease Buyers

A lot of small electric SUVs in Australia are bought on a novated lease, because of the fringe benefits tax exemption for electric cars. As general information: for the 2026-27 financial year, that exemption applies to battery-electric cars valued under the fuel-efficient luxury car tax threshold of $91,661. The threshold is re-indexed every 1 July.

The catch is the date. In the 2026-27 Federal Budget the government announced that from 1 April 2027, the full exemption will be limited to electric cars costing $75,000 or less, with a 25 per cent discount replacing it above that, up to the threshold. From 1 April 2029 the full exemption goes altogether and every eligible electric car gets the 25 per cent discount. The government says existing leases will not be affected. An electric C-HR arriving in mid-2027 would arrive after that date, so nobody will be able to sign a lease on one under today's rules.

That makes Toyota's price, and the price of each grade once options are added, the whole question for a lease buyer. Where each grade lands against the $75,000 line, and against whatever the luxury car tax threshold is after it re-indexes on 1 July 2027, will decide whether the C-HR gets the full exemption, the reduced one or neither. If you are weighing it against one of the cars above on a lease, one you can order today can still be signed under the current rules. Check the current position with the ATO and your lease provider before you commit either way. This is general information, not tax advice.

What Toyota Has Not Told Us Yet

For a car due in about nine months, the list of missing information is long:

• Price, for either grade, and whether Toyota will publish drive-away figures.
• Grade names and equipment. Toyota says the 14-inch screen, Connected Services and Toyota Safety Sense come on every variant. Nothing else has been split by grade.
• A certified range figure and the test cycle behind the "over 500km" target.
• Peak DC charging power in kilowatts.
• Dimensions and kerb weight. Toyota says the car is larger than the hybrid but has not published figures for Australia.
• Towing. No figure has been published. For reference, Toyota rates the bZ4X AWD at 1,500kg braked, and we list the bZ4X FWD at 750kg. If you tow, do not assume the C-HR matches either.
• Warranty and battery cover. Toyota quotes a 10-year, unlimited-kilometre battery warranty for the bZ4X when it is serviced at a Toyota dealer. It has not said the same for the C-HR yet.
• An ANCAP rating. We hold none for the electric C-HR, and the hybrid's rating does not carry across to a car on a different platform.
• An all-wheel drive version. Toyota Australia has only announced the front-motor car.

Even the timing has a little give in it. The body of Toyota's announcement says the car is expected in mid-2027, while the captions on its own press photos say the first half of 2027. Read that as the middle of next year, give or take, and wait for Toyota to open orders before you plan around a date.

Who Should Wait, and Who Should Not

Wait for it if you want an electric Toyota, like the C-HR's shape, and do not need a car until the second half of next year. On paper it gives you the bZ4X FWD's battery size and outputs in a more stylish package, with Toyota's dealer network behind it. The 22kW AC charging is useful if your home has three-phase power, and the regenerative braking paddles are a nice touch for city driving.

Look elsewhere if you need a car before mid-2027, want to lock in a novated lease under the current exemption, or need more cargo space than 416 litres. The bZ4X FWD is on sale now with a certified 591km WLTP range and 452 litres, from the same showroom. If you tow, nothing about the C-HR BEV is known yet, so it is not a car to plan around.

Think carefully if you are choosing between the electric C-HR and the C-HR hybrid. They share a badge but are different cars, and the hybrid needs no home charger, no public charging plan and no fresh look at the lease rules. We hold hybrid C-HR rows for the GXL, Koba and GR Sport, and the comparison tool will line them up against anything else you are considering.

We hold a coming-soon listing for the Toyota C-HR BEV and will fill in the price, grades and full specification as Toyota Australia publishes them.