Images: Toyota Images: Toyota The new Highlander is ostensibly the flagship, but its stats don't always bear that out. Toyota revealed its fourth EV in nearly as many years this week with the 2027 Highlander. It's a big deal: not only has the brand sold over 3.6 million Highlanders in America across four generations and a quarter century, but this is the first of the brand's established nameplates to make the jump to full electrification. (In terms of regular production; we're not counting the Tesla-collab RAV4 EV from 2012.) In many ways, the Highlander will be the flagship of Toyota's fully-electric lineup. It's the largest, and it packs the biggest battery pack Toyota has ever fit to its EVs (a 95.8-kilowatt-hour capacity). After the 2026 RAV4, it will be the next Toyota to run the brand's latest (and much improved) infotainment system, which includes a built-in dashcam feature. The design itself, while familiar in terms of the now-signature hammerhead front-end design, is dramatic and forward-thinking, while the interior takes some stylish risks, something we seldom see from conservative Toyota. So what's the catch? 2026 Honda Civic Si: All the Details There's an Oddity, and Its Name is Woodland Image: Toyota Image: Toyota The circle that we're trying to square here has to do with the next-largest EV in the lineup; the bZ Woodland. We can't talk about how it drives quite yet-tune in next week for the first drive review-but we can talk about its dual-motor setup. Like the Highlander it's also all-wheel drive, though the Woodland is unique amongst all the Toyota EVs by using the same electric motor at both ends, for a stronger 375 total system horsepower. Why does the five-seater quasi-wagon get more power than any other electric Toyota, especially the larger one that will likely be tasked with carrying more people and their things? That isn't the only strange thing about the Woodland. Take the name itself: while Woodland is a trim on the RAV4 and Sienna, here it's a very distinct product. Sort of. What we call the bZ Woodland is the bZ4X Touring in Europe, because a) Toyota never dropped the "4X" in the Olde World and b) Europeans aren't terrified of acknowledging the existence of wagons. It's a long-roof bZ with added cladding-and there's nothing wrong with that. What we're getting at is that there's a whole lot of overlap already. Toyota took a while to join the electric side of the market, and unlike brands like Cadillac, which has entered multiple segments, the Japanese giant is slowly spreading out from that initial starting point. That might be the smart play given the current political climate, but it could spell confusion for would-be buyers trying to understand why four similar-looking models at the dealership are all, in fact, different. 2026 Nissan Armada NISMO: All the Details