Lexus Teases Fast Future With 430-Mile Solid-State Sports EV

Lexus is in the early stages of becoming an all-electric premium brand and the most exciting part of that transformation is the BEV Sport concept, an electric Lexus coupe of supercar proportions that may or may not come loaded with a range-expanding solid-state battery, C. C. Weiss reported for New Atlas recently.

Photo Insert: The BEV Sport

At Toyota's BEV press conference in December, Lexus spoke less of refrozen glaciers, sparkling clean waterways, and healthier unicorns, and more about fast acceleration, motor-boosted braking, and improved handling all over highway and byway.

The BEV Sport concept is the poster child for Lexus' performance-focused BEV strategy, and it looks considerably better out on the road and track than it did in a concept car-stuffed event center.

Lexus said the production version, which will hopefully be named something more memorable than "BEV Sport," will be capable of a 0-62 mph (100 km/h) in the low 2's and a range up to 435 miles (700 km).

That performance will possibly, though not definitively, come courtesy of a solid-state battery pack, setting the BEV Sport up to potentially be a solid-state testbed.

The BEV Sport will be among the raft of upcoming electric vehicles that Lexus plans to launch this decade. By 2030, it plans to have an EV in every segment in which it sells cars, and five years forward from there, it intends to be an all-electric specialist.

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