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What's New for 2025?
The RAV4 Prime has been renamed RAV4 Plug-In Hybrid, and the distinctive blue-filled Toyota badges from the Prime days have been replaced by standard Toyota badges. Otherwise, the plug-in RAV4 carries over unchanged, with the exception of a new "integrated streaming" feature that can link separate Apple Music and Amazon Music subscriptions for onboard control.
2025 RAV4 Selector
FAST FACTS
"The regular RAV4 Hybrid should be a great fit for most folks, but we're not here to dissuade you from wanting more. If you don't mind the significant price premium, the RAV4 Plug-In Hybrid (formerly known as the RAV4 Prime) is bound to delight with its 40-plus miles of electric range and sub-6-second sprint to 60 mph. Those are serious numbers, and if you do most of your driving around town, as most of us do, you might not need to refuel for months. This is a very expensive RAV4, but it's also arguably a lot of PHEV SUV for the money. The Lexus NX 450h+, for example, uses the same powertrain and costs nearly $20k more."—Ranked #1 out of 9 Compact Plug-In-Hybrid SUVs
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Josh has been reviewing cars professionally since joining Edmunds.com fresh out of grad school in 2008, personally driving most new cars on the market every year since. He also served as the project manager for Edmunds' expert vehicle rankings from their inception in 2018, building the product out from the back end to the front end. Josh is a card-carrying member of the Motor Press Guild and a lifelong car nut who has tested, compared and critiqued a ridiculous number of cars in his career.
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