It's here: the 2026 Toyota RAV4 bowed earlier this week, ushering in the next chapter for the best-selling SUV in America and Canada. While it is basically the same size as before, there are plenty of changes,

America’s best-selling SUV has some cool features we haven’t seen before, from its new tech to its versatile interior.

Toyota is redesigning and “electrifying” its Rav4 lineup for 2026 with models that aren’t quite EVs, but could masquerade as one. The mega popular SUV will come standard with hybrid powertrains, including a plug-in version with a feature you’d expect in only pure EVs: fast charging.

Nikita Chuicko, the virtual artist better known as "kelsonik" on social media, thinks that now is the right CGI time to work on the 2026 Toyota RAV4 GR Sport

Hybrid-electric vehicles have largely defined Toyota's approach to electrification thus far, with company executives consistently pledging their support to the gas-electric powertrain — and the new RAV4, which offers both conventional and plug-in hybrid powerplants, is the latest iteration of this promise.

The RAV4 lineup will include plug-in hybrid and performance GR-Sport models as Toyota looks to expand sales of its No. 1 selling vehicle.

Toyota unveiled its latest RAV4 on Wednesday and said the compact sport utility vehicle would be its first model to feature its Arene software development platform.

Toyota unveiled a fully redesigned version of its flagship SUV, the RAV4, announcing plans to launch it in major markets such as Japan and North America within fiscal 2025. The new RAV4 marks the model’s first full change in roughly six years and is the first vehicle to feature Arene,