About a year ago, back in March of 2021, I wrote a summary of the prospects for an all-electric minivan. At the time the options were sparse.
It’s not a year later and little has changed. The Volkswagen ID.Buzz has gone from a hypothetical future vehicle to one that will be actually introduced in Europe, but for North America, it might as well not exist.
Toyota still gets credit for going hybrid-only with their Sienna, and Chrysler for offering a plug-in hybrid version of the Pacifica. For me today, in Canada, there is no feasible all-electric minivan.
Maybe next year.
I’m glad you aren’t planning to hold your breath through this saga. We test drove a Pacifica PHEV and it wasn’t horrible (a little clunky in a North American minivan kind of way) but I couldn’t convince my partner to take it seriously. Plus all the models they had locally camre pre-installed with a $2500 Amazon Fire “theatre” package that I joked would pay to *not* have.
We decided to put in an order for a 2022 6-seater Kia Sorento PHEV (although, they said it will likely be a 2023…model which doesn’t exist yet!?!) and they originally said we might drive it off the lot in January 2023. 🤷🏻♂️
Back in 2021 I wrote up a summary of the prospects for an electric minivan in Canada (and the US, as the market is similar). I added an update back in 2022 about how not much has changed. Here’s your July 2023 update: no change. There is still Toyota’s hybrid with their Sienna, but not …