The upcoming 2024 Toyota Tacoma will be offered with a hybrid powertrain, the first time the nameplate has been configured as a hybrid, Toyota announced in a recent press release.
The midsize pickup will get the i-Force Max powertrain for the new model year. The full specs of the specific i-Force Max variant for the 2024 Toyota Tacoma are currently unavailable, but are probably similar to existing examples used in other Toyota vehicles.
2024 Toyota Tacoma prototype testing in January 2023
The i-Force Max powertrain is also an available engine option for the 2023 Toyota Crown. In this instance of its use, it consists of a turbocharged 2.4L inline-four-cylinder engine mated to front and rear electric motors. This powertrain develops a combined output of 340 horsepower and a combined 400 pound-feet of torque.
In the 2024 Toyota Tacoma, the i-Force Max powertrain would produce more horsepower (though not more peak torque) than either the turbocharged 2.7L I4 L3B gasoline engine or the turbocharged 2.7L I4 L2R gasoline engine used in the 2023 GMC Canyon and 2023 Chevy Colorado. The i-Force Max should also be more fuel efficient than the 18 to 20 mpg indicated by the recently released EPA L3B engine fuel economy figures for the 2023 GMC Canyon.
It’s unclear at the moment if other engine options will carry over from previous model years or if the 2024 Toyota Tacoma will be hybrid-only. Alternately, the i-Force Max could replace the 3.5L V6 gasoline engine offered for the 2023 Toyota Tacoma.
The 2024 Toyota Tacoma is a direct competitor to GM’s Chevy Colorado and the GMC Canyon trucks, outselling both by a considerable margin in the mainstream midsize pickup truck segment. While the Japanese automaker has kept much of the information about the all-new Tacoma under wraps, GM Authority has previously obtained some details about the upcoming pickup.
Toyota revealed images of the 2024 Toyota Tacoma as part of a January 2022 Brazilian patent application. The images show the next-generation Tacoma has a strong resemblance to the all-electric pickup design Toyota showed during its December 2021 presentation of electric vehicle concepts. Shared details include grille and headlamp cluster shape, wheel arches, and door panel character lines.
GM Authority also captured spy shots of the 2024 Toyota Tacoma prototype undergoing road tests in January. Though wrapped in camo, the visible styling of the truck matched up closely to the Brazilian patent images.
The Toyota EV pickup concept, similar to the Brazil patent images
It’s also worth noting that Toyota’s latest teaser image, which appears at the top of this article, confirms that the off-road-focused TRD Pro variant will be back with the 2024 model year.
Under the body panels, the TNGA-F platform is said to underpin the next-gen Toyota Tacoma.
As a reminder, both the 2023 Chevy Colorado and the 2023 GMC Canyon pickup trucks went into production on January 24th, 2023, with the first vehicles ceremoniously rolling off the production line at the GM Wentzville plant in Missouri.
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GM should be offering hybrids for those who can use an EV part time and need a real car the rest of the time.
This is the future not evs
Short to medium term future? Maybe. Long term, absolutely not.
I’ll never understand why GM walked away from hybrid technology. EV may or may not be in our future, but hybrid is now.
Because it never sold????
Toyota drivers don’t use trucks as trucks. They use them as brodozers to upgrade from their Corolla’s.
Hybrids dont really work well with trucks. You increase the cost significantly, get no better highway economy, sometimes worse highway economy with the extra weight and parts, so your combined economy isn’t much better, while it may let you in the case of a minivan use a more frugal engine to offset that, in a truck that would neuter your towing.
GM was the first to do this and found it didn’t sell well at all amongst their buyers. GM then tried the mild hybrid and it also didn’t sell well.
Tell that to Ford. I’m sure they will remove the Maverick from their lineup immediately.
Maverick isn’t really a truck.
Ok hillbilly
I will accept that as a compliment, thank you.
Agreed, I will stay with ICE.
I have a hard time believing what you said in terms of the worse highway economy. I rented a Highlander Hybrid in Florida last April and going from Miami to Port Charlotte 9freeway) I was pulling a consistent 37 mpg going 5mph over the speed limit. I just looked up the weight and it’s a couple hundred lbs lighter than the new Colorado.
Maybe a hybrid GM Midsize wouldn’t be the best truck for truck uses, but GM definitely isn’t going to win over any market share over a 5 year period if the Tacoma will be a hybrid. Good call for a truck, bad call for profits on GM’s part.
Here is the deal.
Hybrids are going to be eliminated when the states that ban the sale of all gas powered cars. GM could invest in these but there is no future in them in almost 60% of the market as of now.
GM took the money and invested in BEV as that is where all this is going.
Toyota has been lobbying to get Hybrids as the future but the state and EPA are not having any of that as well a number of other countries.
At this point Toyota has already spent the money on Hybrids and will now have to invest in a EV Tacoma. GM on the other hand in 2 years will have a full EV Colorado offered.
Hybrids still have ICE engines and that is not where these far left eco wackos want to go.
You sir are correct, hybrid’s 15 minutes are nearly up when these mandates begin in Toyota’s biggest markets on the coasts. This is an opportunity for GM if they can make a Colorado BEV and actually scale it – not everyone wants a full size truck. I would replace my diesel ZR2 immediately. I have friends with Rivian R1Ts and I’d get one if I believed they will be here in 5 years and weren’t plagued with startup issues. GM leads Toyota BEV design by a mile and needs to take advantage before Toyota turns the ship. Toyota pushes hybrids because they’ve invested the farm on them. My wife had a 2006 Prius (then a 2013 Volt) and it was great at that time, other than new sheet metal and crappier interior the core hasn’t changed much at all and my wife would never consider one after owning a Tesla.
Yes GM is way ahead not only tech but financially as the money saved on Hybrids was put into the products that will last.
I just now so many were anti hybrid now think they are the thing but like you said their time is coming to an end.
Ford only is doing hybrids because they can hardly afford to do the BEV. The Lighting and Mach e were just quick and dirty PR jobs to buy time for their true BEV platform they lack yet. 8k were laid off to help fund it.
Toyota gambled and lost.
Many miss that Hybrids are still ICE and CARB laws are killing all ICE sales accept for heavy trucks.
All auto companies are gambling one way or another. The buyers of vehicles in the world will decide who wins. You can make your bet buying stock. I made my decision years ago, buying an early Tesla and Tesla stock. The stock profit paid for most of grandkids college.
People don’t realize the debt Toyota has is nearly that of VW which is roughly equal to Russia’s national debt (a couple hundred billion). Not sure how Japan with the largest national debt per capita will bail them out as Chinese BEV automakers continue to take their market share in China, the EU, and Australia while Tesla erodes it in the US and EU. BEV production negates all of Toyota’s manufacturing strengths so they have been unwilling to invest in a proper dedicated platform and it is biting them in the @ss as their flagship Bz4x is marginally better than a LEAF but costs the same as a model Y.
That’s our Mary…..again. EV or nothing. Why were Silverado hybrid version cancelled?
I have two Honda Accord Hybrids – great cars, nicely equipped and average 50 MPG with mixed driving. MUCH worse highway only and this is not a shock to anyone following hybrids. My trucks have all been gasoline but I have ordered (and waiting for) a new Sierra 1500 with the 3.0L diesel. I’ll stick with some ICE for truck use but don’t mind the hybrid for around town and commuting.
A friend bought the Tundra Twin Turbo V-6 with hybrid assist a couple of months ago. He’s a big Toyota fan but is sorely disappointed with the fuel economy. A recent 900 drive saw an average of 13.5 MPG highway and its max has been 17 MPG. He was too impatient for the GMC diesel and found the Tundra on a lot.
I JUST RECEIVED AN E-MAIL TJHAT MY TRUCK IS MOVING.
Not holding my breath but it’s more encouraging than not hearing anything.
It should be noted that Toyota is the only major company lobbying against the ev scam. They have told congress and the current administration that what they are proposing with evs is simply not gonna be possible. At least nowhere near the timeline they have set.
I’m sure their lobbying isn’t rooted in self-interest…🙄
I don’t care, I wouldn’t have a Toyota in any shape, but I do agree with their assessment.
Toyota could put a V8 in the Taco and get better mileage figures than the Colorado or Canyon when the HO version of the 2.7 is concerned. I would bet a years salary that a hybrid Taco will get noticeably better mileage than any version of the GM mid size twins
What amount is noticeably and what is your salary?
notice how silence when joe is called out.
That is none of your business as I was simply making a point. And noticeably is anything above the pathetic 17/21 of the current 4X4 310 HP version of the 2.7. Heck Toyota is getting 17/22 and 17/23 out of their full size Tundra 4X4 with a twin turbo NON HYBRID V6 ranging from 348 HP to 379 HP. The actual hybrid ranges from 19/22 to 20/24 spending on trim. If you don’t think that a smaller lighter truck than the Tundra with a hybrid powertrain will exceed this GM’s pathetic ratings then your living in total denial!
I’m sure it’s going leader in mid size trucks if gets 24-27 mpg.
I get a feeling eventually GM may introduce the electric motor in the Corvette E-Ray onto the 2.7L engines (or a variation of it).
I honestly think that with GM’s recent investment into their next generation of V8’s it will widely include hybridization with naturally aspirated engines. I think the E-Ray is a test bed for not only on how it will perform. But also on if the consumers accept it. Which for the most part it has been decently accepted. I think that tech will trickle down to GM’s smaller engines.
Sales tell the story. Mike drop!
The EV future will be fraught with casualties. We own our second Tesla and will be shopping for another BEV to replace it late this year. GM and some others not on our shopping list because products are too new. GM has a rep for early production problems. Knocking off Tesla seems highly unlikely. Tesla probably is the only manufacturer making money on BEVs currently.
And there you have it vehicle fans. This will be a super hot product for Toyota. Toyota has a deep brainpower bench. They have successfully managed to eat the lunch of American automakers. They lay and wait and watch and plan. I think they will bust out of the shadows with Hydrogen propel. Cummins is taking Hydrogen to the bank. We are going to see big time drama in this industry. Wait until Musk releases his $20K electric city car made in Mexico. Bullets will be sweating from foreheads and many sleepless nights in the Motor City.
Until the range and chargiing times of electric vehicles have been significantly improved, I won’t buy one. The infrastucture isn’t here to make it easier to charge them. Charging time is rediculously high, especially long distance traveling.
Old man Biden is gonna ram them down are dang throats. You see they wont let the market decide, so they will force us one way or another. He wants 67% of all cars, trucks and suvs to be electric by 2032. While we sit on the largest oil reserves in the whole world he wants us to rely on China and other 3rd world countries who hate our guts and want to eat our lunch for all those rare earth materials. Does anyone think the rest of the world is gonna do this? Heck no, maybe the EU and the new cuba to our north Canada, but the rest of the world will just sit and laugh.